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World’s 3rd Largest Dry Slope Gets Larger

The world’s former joint third largest ski area by area, at Nozawa Onsen in Japan, has announced that it’s expanding from 20,000 to 23,000 sqm this summer.  It’s now the third largest without an equal. Like the largest, the 1.1km long 44,000 sqm summer dry slope at fellow Japanese ski area Kagura and the second largest, a 38,000 sqm, 800m

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North Staffs Ski Club Celebrating 50th Anniversary

2024 marks the 50th year of skiing in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. The North Staffs Ski Club, originally boasting just 27 Members was formed on 3rd June 1974 shortly after the local council opened the ski lodge. Within three years the club race team won the West Midlands Regional Trophy in the ‘Sport for All’ series of events but by March, 1979,

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Bigger Burning Man Dry Slope Planned

The BRC Snow Club, a global community and Burning Man theme camp that famously brought a dry ski slope to the huge week-long desert festival in Nevada, has announced plans to go even bigger this year and join forces with an ‘Alien Ski Resort’ themed camp! “The first year with the slope was a wild success, with hundreds of participants

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Dry Slopes For Uphill Ski Mountaineering Training

Ski touring, also known as ski mountaineering, has become increasingly popular in recent years and that’s set to increase further after the sport is included in the Winter Olympics for the first time at the 2026 games in Italy. Although the sport focuses on the ascent through pristine nature on your ascent, and then, ideally, a run down on fresh

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New Indoor Ski Centre For Colorado

SNÖBAHN has opened a massive new action sports facility at a brand-new 38,000 square feet location in Thornton, Colorado, with four SkiMachines by Alpine Engineering. The company was founded in 2016 by Sadler Merrill, a Colorado native and former University of Colorado freestyle ski team member who had a dream of create a secure haven for honing tricks and enhancing

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New 5,000 Sqm Dry Slope For Iowa

A huge new dry ski slope with surface material supplied by British manufacturer Snowflex isd set to open at the former ski area of Sleepy Hollow in Polk County, Iowa. The 50,000-square-foot (4650 sqm) slope will be, “The world’s largest all-weather tubing hill,” according to its operators.  There’s also talk of skiing and snowboarding resuming, potentially, after the site has

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