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