The redesign and dramatic upgrading of Hillend dry ski centre on the outskirts of Edinburgh has been granted planning approval. Hillend, sometimes known as the Midlothian Snowsports Centre, has offered skiing for the past six decades and for much of that time had the largest dry slope in the UK, Europe and for a time the world.   The ski

A new artificial ski slope development in Romania’s Gorj County is due to open at the end of October. Building the Aprilia Park complex’s ski hill has involved the moving of tens of thousands of cubic metres of excavated soil in a year-long construction project, the developers say. Aprilia Park say the slope, which uses Neveplast material, which will be

Nevada’s Burning Man Festival made headlines this year when the 75,000 ‘Burners’ (the name for festival goers) were stuck by torrential rain, rather than the usual hot weather, but 2023 also had another claim to fame, a dry ski slope. The Black Rock City Snow Club, which has had an ski themed camp at the festival for several years, fund-raised

Plymouth’s dry ski slope has received a whole new main slope surface with the MK Enterprises team laying 1,300 Diamond mats from John Nike Leisure, the same company that operates the centre. The centre’s four small slopes to the left of the main run will continue to have a Perma-Snow surface This is quite different to diamond matting as it

The opening ceremony of the new freestyle water jump took place in Bristol Mountain in New York State recently. Bristol Mountain is a well-known winter sports resort near the town of Canandaigua in the eastern US. not far south of Lake Ontario. Many celebrities (including Olympic participants) came to admire the jump’s unique construction which includes an automatically tilting jump

French ski instructor Anthony Robert has taken his dry slope freestyle jumping to new levels completing a 37 metre front flip on a ski hill in the Vosges region. Robert has been making summer front flips on his local ski jump at the ski resort of Gerardmer for quite a few years now, progressively increasing the distance. Posting video of

One of Scotland’s and the world’s longest established dry ski slopes, at the Loch Insh outdoor activity centre in the Cairngorms National Park, is reported to have surpassed its £45,000 crowdfunding goal required to resurface its slope. The Loch Insh dry slope was first installed in 1988 by the Freshwater family behind the outdoor activity centre. The family have been

Singapore will see a new complex offering skating, surfing, skiing and snowboarding at the end of October. It means that board sport enthusiasts will be able to attempt both winter and summer sports on the same day at the venue. The Ride Side, Trifecta will span over 4,609 sqm on Somerset Road in the island country and is set to

The 4-star Family Hotel Elldus at the small German ski resort of Oberwiesenthal has had a new hybrid ski and tubing slope created for it by Skitrax World. The hotel’s new ski and tubing centre is served by a 30 metre long conveyor lift which accesses about 600 m2 of Tubtrax / Slopetrax mats. Initially a two-lane tubing track will

Quebec’s Mont Tremblant’s, the most visited ski area in Eastern North America, has added a dry slope for summer skiing. Opening on August 18th, Tremblant will be offering the chance to learn to ski or snowboard and carve on a synthetic surface supplied by Italian firm, Neveplast. Two types of surfaces are available in the learning area: a long-fibre mat