The long-established Mt. Aggie dry ski slope at Texas A&M University in America has been damaged in a windstorm, and the university is now fundraising for a new surface for the slope. Mt. Aggie, located on the university’s West Campus, was established more than five decades ago. Established in 1971, it is believed to be North America’s longest surviving dry
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In the second year of fundraising for Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK), a charity whose mission is to open snowsports to all, skiers and boarders booking their holidays through Igluski.com have donated almost ten times the sum raised in the previous, inaugural year of the partnership. At the time of booking, either online or via the Iglu Ski reservations team, those
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Ski touring, also known as ski mountaineering, has become increasingly popular in recent years and that’s set to increase further after the sport is included in the Winter Olympics for the first time at the 2026 games in Italy. Although the sport focuses on the ascent through pristine nature on your ascent, and then, ideally, a run down on fresh
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SNÖBAHN has opened a massive new action sports facility at a brand-new 38,000 square feet location in Thornton, Colorado, with four SkiMachines by Alpine Engineering. The company was founded in 2016 by Sadler Merrill, a Colorado native and former University of Colorado freestyle ski team member who had a dream of create a secure haven for honing tricks and enhancing
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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
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The construction of a summer ski training facility for professional athletes in Shenyang City at Liaoning Province in China is expected to be completed later this month and open later this year. The project will be one of the world’s larger dry slope centres, spanning and area of 18,724 square meters and reaching a building height of 20.4 meters. The
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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
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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
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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
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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
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