A 50,000-square-foot (4,645sqm), 600 foot (nearly 200m) long dry ski slope installed at Sleepy Hollow ski area in Iowa, USA, is out of action just months after it opened due to technical and construction flaws. The slope itself, supplied by British company Snowflex, was initially used for tubing with skiing and snowboarding introduced more recently, appears to be fine, however

Piste Tribe, which describes itself as, “a tight-knit tribe of skiers who find passion and joy in life on the slopes and sharing a lifestyle and values,” has opened an indoor ski machines facility in SouthKorea. Piste Tribe, located near the university of Cheongju, have two large size Treadmill SkiMachines from  Alpine Engineering BV. Piste Machine work together with conventional

A dry ski slope at Folkestone in Kent on England’s south coast appears to have been saved from closure, although full details of its rescue have not yet been disclosed. The dry slope is part of the wider Folkestone Sports Centre, a popular leisure centre that shut unexpectedly last July after former operators Folkestone Sports Centre Trust ran into financial

The Dry Ski Slope Project at China’s Hebei Sport University has been a leading facility for ice and snow sports teaching and training since 2017. The ski run was scientifically designed, stretching 106 meters in length and 18 meters in width, with a slope gradient ranging from 9 to 18 degrees. This design not only meets the training needs of

Greece’s Minister of Tourism, Mrs. Olga Kefalogianni, has approved €9.9 million (€9,795,181.50 to be precise) in aid for upgrades to the country’s long-established Karpenisi Ski Centre.  The plan is to include a new dry ski slope. This project, which is part of Greece’s Development and Resilience Fund, is the fifth application approved under the Ministry’s program to upgrade ski resort

A new snow park has opened in Berlin, one of the first cities in the world to offer indoor snowsports almost a century ago. The German capital’s popular ‘Drop In’ Skater Hall has installed a state-of-the-art snowpack using a Slopetrax surface, supplied by Skitrax World, to deliver that real snowboard feeling! As its name suggests, Skatehalle Berlin is popular with

From November 7 to 17, Milan hosted the second edition of the Swiss Winter Village in the Porta Nuova district. The initiative by Switzerland Tourism was designed to offer a preview of the Swiss winter with skiing, Christmas markets, and snow activities. The star of the event was a Neveplast ski slope, set up in Piazza Gae Aulenti, where adults

The Snowtrax dry ski slope centre in Christchurch, Dorset, has announced that it’s hosting a ski show over three days from next Friday November 29th, through to Sunday December 1st 2024. The free-to-visit Southern Snow Show, at Snowtrax Alpine Activity Centre, will be a “winter sports extravaganza” its organisers promise. “We’re incredibly excited to bring the Southern Snow Show to

More information has been published on a new dry slope ski machine that has been installed at a location in Wiltshire, which we first reported on back in July. It transpires that the slope, which opened on the 17th, is the brainchild of Nick Jenkins, Moonpig founder, former BBC Dragon and Wiltshire local. He has had the machine imported and