The summer of 2022 will be remembered, sadly, as the first when almost all summer ski glaciers in the Alps were forced to close for at least month in August-September, as the freezing point moved above 4,000 metres following a winter with below average snowfall. As a result, competitive skiers and snowboarders at all levels from World Cup teams to 

Olympic snowboarder Jamie Nicholls and Olympic cyclist Victoria Pendleton CBE – were present to judge the ‘Best Trick’ prize at Warmwell’s dry slope as young contestants performed adrenaline-pumping tricks in support of the charity #Willdoes. Deja Parker and Max Baxter-Fox were judged the winners at the annual Snowboard and Ski Jam, receiving a £200 voucher, donated by Thrudark clothing, for

A long-planned dry ski slope project at Par near St Austell in Cornwall has been given the green light by local councillors. The plans for the dry ski slope, to be called the Altitude Snow Park, were first announced in 2018, but the landowners since had to solves multiple planning issues before finally getting the go ahead to start construction.

40 years since Tallington Lakes in Lincolnshire first opened its doors to the public and 35 years since their original 120 metre long dry ski slope was added to the growing leisure park; a brand-new surface has been fitted. “Our outdoor dry slope offers a chance for those that want to try something a bit different this winter to get

Treviso, a beautiful little town near Venice, held a special event to celebrate the centenary of its founding at the start of October, and one of the big attractions were artificial ski slopes on the city walls – one for downhill, the other cross-country skiing. “The Mountain in the City. Skiing on the Walls” event, part of the the European

JF DrySki have completed a new ski slope for the Colorsnow Ski Club in Nanshan District, Shenzhen in Southeastern China. The new facility, located in heart of the city’s Pengrunda Commercial Plaza, has two slopes served by a 33m-long magic carpet. One of these is a 4 metre wide and 33 metre long slope with an airbag, the other a

Proslope was created with the aim of making skiing and snowboarding more accessible to all, not just by creating an affordable sports surface solution, but by making one that, unlike the competition, is a pleasure to ski or ride on. The Proslope Difference The key Proslope success factors are: Better edge control –for skiers and boarders from complete beginners to

A popular urban ski hill in the Swedish capital Stockholm will offer skiing and snowboarding year round from now on, having unveiled a major new dry slope. The Hammarbybacken hill has long been a popular wintersports destination and is run by skistar., the same company that runs Scandinavia’s biggest resorts like Sweden’s Are and Salen as well as Hemsedal and

A huge dry ski slope has gone into operation near the western Ukranian city of Lviv. Work on the facility began last autumn and was completed in early summer, despite Russia’s invasion. The 19,000 m2 slope is part of a five-star resort, the Hotel Resort Emily, and has been designed so that it can also be used in winter when

In the long history of creating non-snow surfaces to ski on, one of the most ambitious projects was a centre known as Ski Villa created in California’s Carbon Canyon. Like many of these facilities throughout the 20th century, the project appears to have been ambitious, expensive, but ultimately short-lived because of key flaws in the plan meaning that the return