A 250 metre long ski slope was created in 1938 on the south west French coast at Arcachon on the shores of the Bay of Biscay. Known as Créppins, the slope was covered with pine needles (locally called grépin) which offered what were described as, “very good gliding conditions.” It was used especially for training in slalom, downhill and even
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Prior to the first permanent dry slopes in the 1960s, there were two development stages in England. The first involved teaching skiing on flat gradient ‘hard surfaces’ (in school halls and playgrounds, village halls and the like) as pictured above. The second was the development of a brush board portable slope – effectively large wooden boards where the brushes were
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Work on a world-class freestyle dry ski slope is reported to be underway in Belgium. Unlike most existing dry ski slopes, the centre will have the dry ski slope element on sloping structures built above the hill top in a similar way to the inruns on ski jumping towers, with the hillside where an old dry ski slope once existed
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A year round dry-ski slope centre in Colorado is reported to be moving forward after its developers got permission to start work on a former waste site and convert it in to a ski area. The site’s developers have just got formal permission to redevelop the former landfuill site in to a recreation area with ski slope. The ski slope
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A conveyor ski machines centre has opened in Dubai. The Infinite Ski centre uses two Ski Maxxtracks machines with rotating slopes with the ski surface coming towards you like a runners treadmill, sloping downhill and with a much larger surface, so users can ski or snowboard ‘forever.’ Or at least as long as the machine is switched on. Located in
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A plan to build a ski slope on the specially designed sloping sides of a giant power station in Copenhagen has been making world headlines ever since the idea was first unveiled more than six years ago. The building appeared ready for the slope to be installed nearly two years ago and work began on the install last winter with
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One of the world’s leading dry ski centres is to get a major cash injection from the local council to transform it in to a multi-sport outdoor activity centre. The Hillend dry ski centre above Edinburgh, also known as the Midlothian Snowsports Centre, located in a prominent position on hillside above the Scottish capital, has been one of the world’s
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An unusual year-round Nordic ski area has opened in Poland. The Transgraniczne Centrum Turystyki Aktywnej is a well-established winter cross country ski centre offering Nordic walking and roller-skiing in summer but has not previously been able to offer cross country skiing when there’s no snow. The new facility comprises four separate stretches of track, each about 100 metres long. Two
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The longest dry ski slope in Europe has officially opened at Kopaonik, the largest ski resort in Serbia. The 800 metre long slope with 116 metres of vertical drop is believed to be the longest ever built in Europe, with the surface material supplied by Italian manufacturer, Neveplast. “The ski slope is suitable for beginners as well as expert skiers
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A centre containing revolving dry ski slope machines proposed for a location in West Sussex has been given the go-ahead to the surprise of its backers. Planning staff at the local Horsham District Council had recommended that the application, from a start-up company called Moving Mountains, be refused, but council members of the planning committee voted in favour of the
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