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

Snobahn, an indoor dry ski centre which opened in Centennial, Colorado in 2016 has announced a second location is to open in a former department store. The former Stein Mart store in Thornton will become the second location of Snobahn, with a footprint of 36,000 square feet and is expected to open in February. The space is more than double

Dry ski slope manufacturer JF DRY SKI have been celebrating the decision by the International Ski & Snowboard Federation (FIS) to use their surface at an FIS Freeskiing World Championships in Switzerland in late October.  Along with alpine ski racing in Solden this was one of the two opening events of the 23-24 World Cup Season.   JF DRY SKI

A plan to redevelop Sheffield’s Parkwood Springs area which was once home to one of Europe’s largest dry ski centres has been awarded more than £19 million as part of the latest round of investment from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund. The former Sheffield Ski Village was destroyed by an arson attack more than a decade ago and there have