 Poster: A snowHead
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Anybody been? Anybody know if it - or any other UK dryslopes - are offering snow skiing? Or are they all closed on health and safety grounds  (Too slippery......)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mountainaddict, no idea -plenty of snow around here - just give them a ring.
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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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The news confirms today that the visitors were over the moon to ski snow on a dry slope!
I seem to have lost interest in every facility that operates a single short drag lift.
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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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I'm booked onto lessons at Sheffield's dry ski slope tomorrow and Sunday and they've been advertising the fact that they have up to four inches of snow on the piste. Hopefully I'll get a taste of skiing on powder sooner (and for less money) than I had anticipated.
Check it out below:
http://www.sheffieldskivillage.co.uk/ski-village/
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Astraeus, Sorry to disappoint, but 4 inches will pack down into the 'diamonds' of the matting (if they still use dendix, I know one small section used snowflex - which is cr*p imho) and strangely dendix often runs slower not faster when its been snowed on. Also I suspect that any misting system they have for lubrication will have to be switched off owing to the freezing conditions (this used to happen at Bracknell and High Wycombe).
If there's a bit more snow then it will pack down and cover the mat properly which is obviously what you really want.
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Astraeus, Sorry to disappoint, but 4 inches will pack down into the 'diamonds' of the matting (if they still use dendix, I know one small section used snowflex - which is cr*p imho) and strangely dendix often runs slower not faster when its been snowed on. Also I suspect that any misting system they have for lubrication will have to be switched off owing to the freezing conditions (this used to happen at Bracknell and High Wycombe).
If there's a bit more snow then it will pack down and cover the mat properly which is obviously what you really want. |
It is still Dendix I believe. I'd thought the same until I drove past yesterday and saw the slopes as a sheet of white. And with a bit more snow coming down today with very little untreated snow melting, I'm hopefully optimistic! We shall see in 15 hours though!
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Astraeus, Sounds like there is enough depth to completely cover the dendix then, which is exactly what you want. If there is an actual base as such then you will actually be snow skiing and not breaking through to the plastic at all! 
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