I get off the chairlift and glide out onto a strange facsimile of snow. It doesn’t look like snow and it sure doesn’t feel like it. But to someone who has never seen snow before or someone with a very vivid imagination, it could be.Â
What looks like toothbrush bristles woven into a giant 400 metre-long chicken wire mat is what doubles as snow to many Brits. A few button lifts, a chairlift, add in a few skiers and snowboarders and we have one of the many snowless  dry slopes that are scattered throughout the UK. Just outside Edinburgh, Scotland is the Midlothian Snowsports Center Hillend, Europe’s longest dry slope … DetailsÂ
Kelly Clark took home a prize purse of $10,000 for winning the second annual Covergirl Snow Angels Invitational on Sunday, beating out nearly 15 of the world’s best women snowboarders in the Snowmass superpipe…
A foot of snow fell on Snowmass Saturday, the day scheduled for the superpipe competition. When the competition was postponed until Sunday, Aspen/Snowmass Athlete Gretchen Bleiler took the athletes freeriding around Snowmass in all the fresh powder…Â Details
A common sight this was not — snow skaters shredding in force down the slopes of Donner Ski Ranch.
In fact, the Minus 7 Melee this past Saturday marked the first-ever snow skate contest on Tahoe’s north shore, said Kurt Zapata, owner of Truckee-based Minus 7 Snow Skates along with his wife, Jill.
About 20 snow skaters, many of whom came from as far away as South Lake Tahoe, Reno and Sacramento, competed in a boardercross-style race (called skatercross) followed by a terrain park jam session. It was largely a family affair, Jill Zapata said, as fathers and sons as young as 8 entered together to fill out the youth and adult categories.
Snow skaters ride a skateboard deck set on trucks and a small ski. Unlike snowboards and skis, however, the boards have no bindings…Â Details
‘Hey, sexy boots, get on your boots, yeah.†When Bono belts out the new single, could he be talking about a pair of sexy new snowboard or ski boots? As the days get longer and warmer the best spring skiing beckons. So, I have a question for you, sexy boots. Would you take your clothes off and ride that last run of the day in your birthday suit? What would possess you to do that? A bet? A girl? A liquid lunch?