A new indoor dry slope centre has opened in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. The new SNOWG Ski Centre is located in the cities Southern Business District and is currently the largest indoor dry ski resort in the northwest. The centre has a total area of about 1300 square metres and is equipped with two ski simulators, a three-meter airbag jump,

A farm in Wiltshire has won planning permission to install a 5.5m high ski simulator machine in its barn, alongside a new climbing wall. Bapton Manor Farm, located in the Wylye Valley, approximately 10 miles outside Warminster, plans to use the disused barn to provide the indoor mountain activities to locals and visitors alike and provide jobs, according to its

Italy’s Colere ski resort in Bergamo has installed a new load carpet area using a custom designed NP LIFT material from Neveplast. The NP LIFT material is a Neveplast variant especially designed to guarantee access to any area, even in the absence of snow. “The issue of snow consumption in lift boarding and unloading areas is well-known, but now we

British dry slope manufacturer Proslope have staged their first Park Jam at their home slope of Snowtrax in Dorset, England. The event, which also featured Jibworks was a social focussed Freestyle Jam with its roots firmly focussed on gathering the ski and snowboard community together. “The Proslope Park Jam was a huge hit with the local and not-so-local freestyle skiers

Snobahn, an indoor dry ski centre which opened in Centennial, Colorado in 2016 has announced a second location is to open in a former department store. The former Stein Mart store in Thornton will become the second location of Snobahn, with a footprint of 36,000 square feet and is expected to open in February. The space is more than double

Dry ski slope manufacturer JF DRY SKI have been celebrating the decision by the International Ski & Snowboard Federation (FIS) to use their surface at an FIS Freeskiing World Championships in Switzerland in late October.  Along with alpine ski racing in Solden this was one of the two opening events of the 23-24 World Cup Season.   JF DRY SKI

A plan to redevelop Sheffield’s Parkwood Springs area which was once home to one of Europe’s largest dry ski centres has been awarded more than £19 million as part of the latest round of investment from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund. The former Sheffield Ski Village was destroyed by an arson attack more than a decade ago and there have

A new dry-slope half pipe has opened in China. The facility, located in Luoyang, Henan Province, has been created by the Snowmonkey company. Snowmonkey, a China-based manufacture of snow sports products, believe that this is the first dry ski half-pipe in the world. “There is a shortage of half-pipe training venues around the world because the cost of construction and

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