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

Nevada’s Burning Man Festival made headlines this year when the 75,000 ‘Burners’ (the name for festival goers) were stuck by torrential rain, rather than the usual hot weather, but 2023 also had another claim to fame, a dry ski slope. The Black Rock City Snow Club, which has had an ski themed camp at the festival for several years, fund-raised

Plymouth’s dry ski slope has received a whole new main slope surface with the MK Enterprises team laying 1,300 Diamond mats from John Nike Leisure, the same company that operates the centre. The centre’s four small slopes to the left of the main run will continue to have a Perma-Snow surface This is quite different to diamond matting as it

The opening ceremony of the new freestyle water jump took place in Bristol Mountain in New York State recently. Bristol Mountain is a well-known winter sports resort near the town of Canandaigua in the eastern US. not far south of Lake Ontario. Many celebrities (including Olympic participants) came to admire the jump’s unique construction which includes an automatically tilting jump

French ski instructor Anthony Robert has taken his dry slope freestyle jumping to new levels completing a 37 metre front flip on a ski hill in the Vosges region. Robert has been making summer front flips on his local ski jump at the ski resort of Gerardmer for quite a few years now, progressively increasing the distance. Posting video of