Plans to build the UK’s highest zipline, a downhill mountain coaster and an indoor climbing wall on the outskirts of Edinburgh have been unveiled by Edinburgh Council for the Midlothian Snowsports Centre, also known as Hillend dry ski slope. If the new attractions, part of a number of planned improvements, gets the go ahead it will see the ski centre
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A Danish dryland slope running off a power plant has finally been completed, after several delays An artificial surface ski slope, which runs down the sloping side of a power plant, has been completed, at least in terms of top to bottom coverage, in the past few days. The ski-slope-on-a-power-plant project, near Copenhagen, has attracted global coverage since it was first
Read moreA new ski school catering for skiers and boarders with disabilities, is to open in southern England The new adaptive snowsports school is being set up by Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) at Sandown Sports dry slope in Esher, Surrey. The move follows a £131,000 donation from the UK’s largest ski holiday tour operator, Crystal Ski Holidays, which is the largest
Read moreA new freestyle sports academy is opening in Manchester, England A new indoor sports centre is due to open near Manchester next month, and although it does not appear to have any artificial slopes, it’s being welcomed by Britain’s elite freestyle athletes as the venue they’ve been waiting for, so that they can train properly on home soil. Graystone Action
Read moreThe first phase of the restyling of the Tallington Lakes Ski & Snowboard Centre in Lincolnshire, England, has been completed with a new nursery slope installed. The 800 square metres of the ski slope has been re-shaped and resurfaced with Neveplast matting. Phases two and three, which will see the main slope reshaped and resurfaced, will be completed in 2019, followed
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