A huge new dry ski slope with surface material supplied by British manufacturer Snowflex isd set to open at the former ski area of Sleepy Hollow in Polk County, Iowa. The 50,000-square-foot (4650 sqm) slope will be, “The world’s largest all-weather tubing hill,” according to its operators.  There’s also talk of skiing and snowboarding resuming, potentially, after the site has

Jasmin “Jaz” Taylor, Britain’s most successful ever World Cup ski racer, who began skiing on a dry ski slope in Ipswich, has secured the Telemark Overall and Sprint Crystal Globes for the first time, after more than a decade on the circuit. Taylor (30), secured the globes, awarded to those with the most points accumulated through the course of the

Winter 23-24 has provided challenges for many ski areas around the world, battling periods of warm temperatures and low natural snowfall, with temperatures also too high at times for conventional snowmaking. Neveplast LIFT has emerged as an innovative solution, used by numerous ski resort managers to overcome the difficulties related to snow scarcity in areas required for  chairlift boarding and

A PR agency has published information on the Trojena ski area that Saudi Arabia is planning to build and for which it has already been awarded host status for the 10th Asian Winter Games in 2029. Called Trojena, firsyt announced several years ago now, and part of a larger carbon-neutral  future-living city project called Neon, the ski resort is being

Locals at the latest under-threat-of-closure British community dry ski slope have set up a charity with the aim of taking over operation of the slope. The group behind the move are local parents and others who are bidding to make a “Community Asset Transfer” of Polmonthill Ski Slope near Falkirk from the local council. The fact that the future of

The BRC Snow Club which has been a Burning Man theme camp for several years and last summer brought a dry ski slope to the famously hot, dry and dusty festival in Nevada have announced their intention to return with an enhanced slope in 2024. “We are once again looking for someone with CAD experience to help us redesign our

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