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#1 Liam

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 04:22 PM

Does anyone have info or pictures of any dry ski hills or indoor ski slopes across the globe?

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Posted 23 December 2010 - 10:33 PM

View PostLiam, on 23 December 2010 - 04:22 PM, said:

Does anyone have info or pictures of any dry ski hills or indoor ski slopes across the globe?

Like ski areas without liquor?
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Posted 24 December 2010 - 01:17 AM

View Postaug, on 23 December 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

Like ski areas without liquor?


Hahaha, probably not alot of those!
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#4 Liam

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Posted 06 January 2011 - 04:33 AM

No. The ones that are in like, England, the ones with that weird material as their "snow." Like the Hillend Ski Area, in Edinburgh.

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Posted 14 January 2011 - 07:17 PM

I have some prints from 1995 when I went with an English family I stayed with on a student ambassador program. I will see if I can get them scanned. The area was in Wales. I forget the name.

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Posted 15 January 2011 - 06:03 AM

There are several dozen indoor ski areas (sometimes called "snow domes") in the world. Not surprisingly the biggest indoor ski area with the best variety of lifts and slopes is in.... Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Have a look at Ski Dubai. http://www.skidxb.com/

It has 3 lifts including a quad chair and five runs with the longest being 400 metres (about 1350 feet?), all this situated in scorching hot Arabia

Try Google images for ski dubai, or the best photo gallery of it that I've found is http://dubaiworld.wo...p-to-ski-dubai/

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Wearing my ski historian hat, the first proper indoor ski slope in the world using artificial snow was Mt Thebarton.
It was built in a huge warehouse in the Adelaide suburb of Thebarton in Australia and operated between 1987 and 2005.

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There isn't a decent article on indoor ski araes on either wikipedia or wikiski, but it would be great if someone could compile one. (hint, hint)

This post has been edited by Bogong: 15 January 2011 - 06:12 AM

Details of every Australian ski lift ever built. http://www.australia...ralianskilifts/





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