Browsing entries tagged with Snow Centre
5 Dec 2018
Work will begin on a new real indoor real snow slope in Swindon next year. At the end of November, planning was approved for the slope — to be called The Snow Centre Swindon — which will be created…
11 Aug 2016
The Snow Centre has teamed up with Switzerland Tourism and the Valais to give UK skiers an even more authentic experience while practicing their skills on the closest real snow slope to London. The walls…
6 Jun 2016
Get some practice time in on Britain’s largest indoor real ski lesson slope in the UK and introduce a friend to snowsports this month, with The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead. During the month of June,…
22 Sep 2011
The hugely successful HAT (Henry’s Avalanche Talks) series is back in the UK this October, on tour of the country’s indoor snow centres. The talks are well worth getting along to if you can,…
20 Jul 2011
Manchester’s Chill Factor indoor ski centre has come up with the perfect plan to keep the kids occupied during the summer holidays, while keeping the costs down: parents get free passes to join in…
10 Apr 2011
In the UK for Easter but want to keep the kids entertained with a snowy adventure or two? Why not take them down to an indoor ski centre. The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempsted is launching The Cresta Run for…
30 Oct 2010
They are springing up all over the place now ... but Somerset could get its first indoor snow dome and leisure complex in a few years, if plans in Weston-Super-Mare go ahead. Leisuredome UK Ltd has unveiled…
12 Apr 2010
BBC Radio 2 host Chris Evans took to the slopes last Friday for his latest Breakfast Show Sporting Challenge. Fun-loving Evans clipped into his skis at the Hemel Hempstead Snow Centre for a ‘slalom ski…
9 Jan 2010
One skier found a novel way to enjoy Britain’s snowfall: off-piste on the roof of The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead. Director of the ski school at the centre Peter Gillespie was spotted skiing a few…
6 Oct 2009
Having a few lessons in a UK snow centre is no bad thing before you go away; for beginners, it can be of real benefit before they embark on that first trip to the snow. But what if you could take your…
1 Oct 2009
It’s snowboard time! Whet your appetite for the coming winter with a boarders’-only event: The Big Bang Snowboard Show 2009 is on the road. Big Bang combines all the elements of the usual consumer…
28 Aug 2009
Downhill skiers get indoor snow centres, so why not cross-country enthusiasts? Well, Germany is about to open its first covered Nordic trail - a ski tunnel where year-round training is possible on ‘real’…
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