A PR agency has published information on the Trojena ski area that Saudi Arabia is planning to build and for which it has already been awarded host status for the 10th Asian Winter Games in 2029. Called Trojena, firsyt announced several years ago now, and part of a larger carbon-neutral  future-living city project called Neon, the ski resort is being

Locals at the latest under-threat-of-closure British community dry ski slope have set up a charity with the aim of taking over operation of the slope. The group behind the move are local parents and others who are bidding to make a “Community Asset Transfer” of Polmonthill Ski Slope near Falkirk from the local council. The fact that the future of

The BRC Snow Club which has been a Burning Man theme camp for several years and last summer brought a dry ski slope to the famously hot, dry and dusty festival in Nevada have announced their intention to return with an enhanced slope in 2024. “We are once again looking for someone with CAD experience to help us redesign our

A new gondola lift on the Ochsenkopf in Germany’s Fichtelgebirge went into operation just before Christmas, replacing a lift that had been operating for 32 years. The new lift features a wide dry slope surface using Lifttrax SP glide mats from Skitrax at the exits of the lift, to enable sit-skiers to glide quickly onto the piste with their sit

Leading tech company Huawei have opened a new Health Lab in Helsinki, Finland. The state-of-the-art facility is meant to redefine the landscape of health and fitness research, equipped with advanced testing equipment and dedicated to propelling Huawei’s innovations in the health and fitness sector. As part of the new Health Lab, Huawei has installed a highly advanced Treadmill SkiMachine in

The next generation snowsports surface Proslope has unveiled a number of new enhancements for 2024, alongside new slope installations. The improvement include a new installation system making it even quicker for a ski centre to switch its surface to Proslope, an enhanced misting system and a re-engineering of the polymers in the Proslope base material to make it even more

A new indoor dry slope centre has opened in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. The new SNOWG Ski Centre is located in the cities Southern Business District and is currently the largest indoor dry ski resort in the northwest. The centre has a total area of about 1300 square metres and is equipped with two ski simulators, a three-meter airbag jump,

A farm in Wiltshire has won planning permission to install a 5.5m high ski simulator machine in its barn, alongside a new climbing wall. Bapton Manor Farm, located in the Wylye Valley, approximately 10 miles outside Warminster, plans to use the disused barn to provide the indoor mountain activities to locals and visitors alike and provide jobs, according to its

Italy’s Colere ski resort in Bergamo has installed a new load carpet area using a custom designed NP LIFT material from Neveplast. The NP LIFT material is a Neveplast variant especially designed to guarantee access to any area, even in the absence of snow. “The issue of snow consumption in lift boarding and unloading areas is well-known, but now we

British dry slope manufacturer Proslope have staged their first Park Jam at their home slope of Snowtrax in Dorset, England. The event, which also featured Jibworks was a social focussed Freestyle Jam with its roots firmly focussed on gathering the ski and snowboard community together. “The Proslope Park Jam was a huge hit with the local and not-so-local freestyle skiers