indoor snowboarding in the UK?

I'm moving back to the UK on friday :( Which means i'm no longer going to be able to go and feed my snowboarding addiction every weekend when it gets colder.

So aside from the odd trip out here to go boarding, which obviously I can't do each weekend..does anyone know what the best indoor slopes in the UK are? or of a good site with some information?

As far as I can tell there are dry slopes (such as sheffield ski village) but i'm not interested in them - unless anyone has had some good experiences on them..i've never tried snowboarding on a dry slope but I imagine its crap?

And other than that theres the 3 Xscape locations (leeds, milton keynes, glasgow), and then tamworth snowdome.

My closest will be tamworth I guess, but if theres a really good place I've not heard about I could easily travel every few weeks :) So does anyone know of any others? Or can reccomend one of the above over the rest?

any input appreciated :)

only problem with the x-scapes is theyre well expensive! up in glasgow its 21 quid an hour to get on the dry-slopes, and since only 50 people can use the slopes at a time, its usually fully-booked.

as far as i know, they're the only indoor slopes in the UK. Japan have got an indoor half-pipe, but theres nothing like that here:(

I've not heard of any others either...

Thank yourself lucky your near one at all, the nearest to me is MK and that's still quite a drive.

i've heard good things about the MK site, but never been myself

been wanting to go to one of these since they first opened, but the Glasgow one (opened only a couple of months ago) is the nearest and it's still 2 1/2 hours away. Expensive too :(

There's a pretty impressive dry slope in Rossendale (http://www.rltrust.co.uk/ski_rossendale.asp)

...and if you can wait a year http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/4792819.stm

Either way you'll just have to sit here jonesing all year round like me until you can get onto the real thing :(

DUnno about thee other but the MK one has a bar with a great view of the slope so you can go injury spotting :)

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Originally Posted by Atomic

I've not heard of any others either...

Thank yourself lucky your near one at all, the nearest to me is MK and that's still quite a drive.

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Are you in Norwich? They opened a massive one in Norwich just before I left :/

The Norwich slope is outdoors. And its a dry slope, which means it hurts like hell if you dont manage a landing.

i go to the one in tamworth because its quite close but i am going to go to the one in milton keynes in a few weeks just to see what its like compared to tamworth!

Anybody else been to milton keynes and tamworth snowboarding if so how do they compare?

not quite on-topic, but related:

has anyone tried mountain boarding in the UK (like snowboarding, but on wheels)? How does it compare to snowboarding? I have never tried snowboarding (been skiing though) but would like to - money and impending firstborn mean it's not going to happen just yet, so I though mountain boarding might be a good fill-in...

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Originally Posted by mike_dowler

not quite on-topic, but related:

has anyone tried mountain boarding in the UK (like snowboarding, but on wheels)? How does it compare to snowboarding? I have never tried snowboarding (been skiing though) but would like to - money and impending firstborn mean it's not going to happen just yet, so I though mountain boarding might be a good fill-in...

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funny you should say that but i was thinking about mountain boarding yesterday it looks like a lot of fun!
but i am not sure about walking up a hill for ages carrying a mountain board just for a few minutes coming back down!

a day out would probably be 95% walking up hill - 5% having fun coming down :undecided!

My nearest is the snowdome in tamworth its really nice especially sitting out on the balcony at the end of the slope. not sure what the prices are like though

One day, maybe, but I doubt it.

http://www.natives.co.uk/news/2001/0...onsnowdome.htm

sorry to restart this thread but check out this indoor slope they have built in dubai!

we really need someting this good in the UK!

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4...8890by9.th.jpghttp://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9...8891by6.th.jpghttp://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9...8892tb6.th.jpghttp://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2...8893ob3.th.jpghttp://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8...8894gw8.th.jpg

Bracknell Ski Centre has had "snowboarder friendly" matting for a year and a half now. Basically its like carpet all the way down, fast in the dry, like ice in the wet (try teaching on that stuff, its a nightmare).

http://www.syaoran.co.uk/Bracknell.jpg

there was a discovery channel program on building that thing in Dubai. quite impressive.

There was one on last night about building the palm tree shaped islands in the sea off the coast of Dubai. sooooo ott

they're also building another ski dome in Dubai:

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork...s/snowdome.jpg

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork...d/snowdome.php

:surprised:


also found THIS on wikipedia, largest dome in the world planned for ipswitch

WTF?!?!

That is insane!