 Poster: A snowHead
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Hemel Ski Centre, in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, has obtained full planning permission to build an indoor snow dome. This will consist of a 170m main slope & a 140m Nursery slope, both much wider than Xscape Milton Keynes. Work should start May 07, with the work taking about a year. Due to it's close location to London and it's excellent Ski School & Race Club, I expect it to be an instant success, with many people from London who now drive to Milton Keynes switching to Hemel instead. Can't wait!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have heard from an official source that the dryslope will now remain open and continue thru the 2007/8 winter season and then close for the work to commence.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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That's a fact. Heard it from the horses mouth today. Too much work to do, Working Drawings, Tender process,Summer groundworks, etc. so closing for build straight after 07/08 season.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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...and last year I was supposed to be doing my dry slope instructor quals there. Now where's my nearest dry slope?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Wear The Fox Hat,
I'm sure that with a lot of practice and training, you just might be able to do you basic qualifications, before it closes for 15 months.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Great news, but what's magic about 170m? All the indoor snow slopes seem to be around about this length. If they're going to the expense of building a new one, why not go for, say 300m? I guess there must be some obvious reason I've not thought of...
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Spyderman, I applied before Christmas 2005, and they rang me two months later on the day I started my new job in France.
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jonm,
Hemel is built on an existing earth hill and it happens to be 170m long, 300m although nice is impossible at Hemel. the other indoor snow slopes are built in big sheds.
Wear The Fox Hat,
If you're serious about doing Instructor training at Hemel, let me know, I took the new club instructor 16 week training last year. I know that people are interested in running one this year, now that it's not closing till 08.
If you just want Scottish ASSI, Pete Silver-Gillespie will probably run one this year.
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