The ever-growing list of athletes around the world who either learned or perfected their skills on dry slopes has grown further with skier Lauren Harder and snowboarder Emory Orlando who train on  the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre in Virginia, USA, winning golds at the United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships in Lake Placid, New York state

SkiStar, the operator of the largest ski areas in Norway and Sweden, says it plans to unveil a new dry ski slope at it urban ski hill of Hammarbybacken in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. The slope is part of a new activity centre, which SkiStar are promoting as, “a first in Sweden, offering modern summer skiing and a year-round investment

A major new dry ski centre has opened in the Chinese province of Hebei. The new Guantao JF Dry Ski Four Seasons Ski Resort features three dry slopes with a combined surface area of about 9,000 square metres. The runs include a challenging mogul slope, an intermediate slopes and a beginner run. “We just finished all the installation last week,

One of the world’s biggest dry slope ski areas has opened in Western Ukraine …and then been closed again because of the war. Work on the dry ski network at the Vynnyky ski resort was completed earlier this year, before the Russian invasion. The dry slope supplier was the German-based company Skitrax, who say they installed a total of 19,000

Two-time Olympian Jamie Nicholls has spoken in support of Halifax Ski Slope in England, where he trained as a youngster. British team members at Beijing 2022, Katie Ormerod and Katie Summerhayes, also trained at the facility. Speaking about funding for local snowsports facilities that are supported by funding from the National Lottery, Nicholls said, “They’re very important, and they are

A new complex that includes skiing conveyor machines is to be built at Orchard Road in Singapore. Known as Trifecta by The Ride Side and billed as “Asia’s first snow, surf and skate attraction” the complex is due to open in 2023. The project is the work of Singapore’s own adventure sports company The Ride Side, who have built a

The LAAX Freestyle Academy building is to be completely rebuilt then re-open in 2024 as an entirely carbon neutral facility. The Swiss resort’s freestyle academy – a year-round centre of learning and excellence for freestyle sports complete with indoor ramps, jumps, big airbags and trampolines – first opened 12 years ago, the first in Europe, using a former indoor tennis

The 18 year-old freestyle skier known as Eileen Gu in the Western world and Gu Ailing (谷爱凌) to Chinese speakers, has had some sensational results in the X Games, World Championships and Winter Olympics over the past few years. American-born Gu decided to compete for China, her mother’s homeland, in 2019 and became the youngest ever Olympic champion in freestyle

The famous dry ski slope of Copenhill on the renewable energy waste-to-power plant in Copenhagen has signed an agreement with the leading Scandinavian ski resort operator SkiStar to create a relationship with the company’s ski resorts. It’s a recognition of Copenhill’s global status and its importance in Scandinavia that it has reached this agreement.  It is fairly common for larger

A much-anticipated high-performance airbag jump has been completed and unveiled to freestyle skiers and boarders at Australia’s National Snowsports Training Centre in Jindabyne. Park and pipe athletes from Snow Australia’s ETP (Emerging Talent Program) were among the first to begin training on the facility, which features a 17 metre run down to the jump, covered with JF DrySki slope material.