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

A year-round outdoor freestyle centre for skiers has opened in the Swiss resort of Leysin. ‘Le Bag’ features two dry ski ramps leading to two jumps, one 16 metres high aimed at less experienced jumpers, the other 22 metres high for the most experienced.   The jumps, covered in JF Dryski matting, take freestyle skiers and boarders into the air above

British Winter Olympics hero Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards has officially opened the Tarka Leisure Centre in Barnstaple, which includes a skiing conveyor machine. Eddie cut the ribbon to declare the new facility open and headed straight to see the ‘endless’ ski slope, bringing the opportunity for everyone to try out skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing in North Devon. “The endless ski

The SkiMachine (by Alpine Engineering) company, based in The Netherlands, which supplies and installs conveyor snow machines around the world has announced a number of new locations. The company has now officially changed its name to SkiMachine (by Alpine Engineering) and has a new website. In Europe, the company’s latest machine is at the Hulo Center in Poland. A multi-activity

The ever-growing list of athletes around the world who either learned or perfected their skills on dry slopes has grown further with skier Lauren Harder and snowboarder Emory Orlando who train on  the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre in Virginia, USA, winning golds at the United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships in Lake Placid, New York state