Indoor skiing
Indoor skiing is done in a climate-controlled environment with snowmaking. This enables skiing and snowboarding to take place regardless of outdoor temperatures. Facilities for both alpine skiing and nordic skiing are available.
History
The first known ski hall, called Schneepalast (German: Snow Palace) was opened in the Austrian capital Vienna in 1927 in the abandoned Vienna Northwest Railway Station established by the Norwegian ski jumper Dagfinn Carlsen.[1][2] The track in the 3000 square meter ski area was built on a wooden ramp. A ski jump made it possilbe to jump up to 20 meters. The skiers had to walk up the artificial mountain, because there was no skilift.[3] However sledges could be pulled up with an electrically operated system. The artificial snow had been made by the English experimenter James Ayscough from soda. The operation of the hall, however, took place only until May 1928.[4]
Alpine ski halls
- Mt Thebarton Snow and Ice, Adelaide. Operated 1987 - 2005. Built in a state without any ski resorts, it was likely the world’s first indoor ski slope on artificial snow.[5]
- Swiss Pavillion at World Expo 88, Brisbane. Operated for 6 months in another state without ski resorts. Included a ski slope on artificial snow serviced by a handle tow and a double chairlift operating on a rectangular route.[6]
- Snow Valley, Peer http://www.snowvalley.be
- Ice Mountain, Comines
- Harbin Wanda Indoor Ski and Winter Sports Resort located in Harbin, Heilongjiang, world's largest indoor ski resort with 72,600 square metres of indoor snow.[7]
- Yinqixing indoor skiing, Shanghai
- SnowHall, SnowHall Amnéville, France
- alpinCenter Bottrop in the SnowFunPark in Wittenburg with a 640 m slope and a 31 percent grade.
- SnowDome Bispingen, Bispingen.
- Sayama ski resort, Tokorozawa
- SnowWorld, Landgraaf with a total of 35,000 m² of snow. In 2003, the first indoor snowboard FIS WorldCup contest was held here.
- SnowWorld, Zoetermeer
- Skidome, Rucphen
- Skidome, Terneuzen
- De Uithof, Den Haag
- Snowplanet, Spaarnwoude
- Snowplanet, Auckland
- SNØ, Lørenskog with a total of 50,000 m². 505m long alpine ski track and 1 kilometer long cross-country skiing track suspended from the roof. One of a kind combination of these winter sports. To be opened 2020. Building in progress.
- Snej, Moscow. http://www.snej.com
- SnowZone, in Madrid, has 18.000 square meters of snow areas, including a 250-meters slope (over 25%, 50 meter wide) and a 100-meters long (40 meters wide), chairlifts, and other winter sports facilities.[8]
- Ski Dubai, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai.
- Ski Egypt, Mall of Egypt, 6th of October City.
- Chill Factore, 4 miles outside Manchester,[9] with a 180m long main slope.
- Snowzone Castleford, near Leeds with a 170m long main slope.[10]
- Snowzone, near Milton Keynes with a 170m long main slope.[11]
- Snowdome at Tamworth, near Birmingham with a 170m long slope and 2 smaller beginner areas - 25m and 30m long.[12]
- Snow Centre at Hemel Hempstead[13]
- SnowLand /SkiTexas, Austin, Texas (In progress)
- Big Snow America, East Rutherford, New Jersey (In progress)
The first indoor ski slope, "Schneepalast" (German for snow palace) operated from 26 November 1927 to May 1928 in Vienna in an abandoned railway station, the Nordwestbahnhof. The snow was made of soda.[14] The world's first commercial indoor ski slope operated from 1987 to 2005 at Mount Thebarton, in Adelaide, South Australia.[15]
Nordic ski tunnels
Cross-country skiing
| Location | Name | Length | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sotkamo
|
DNA Ski Tunnel | 1,200 m (3,937 ft) | 1997 |
| Jämijärvi
|
Jämi Ski Tunnel | 1,250 m (4,101 ft) | 2002 |
| Uusikaupunki
|
Vahterus Ring and Vahterus Ring II | 1,000 m (3,281 ft) | Nov 2005 |
| Paimio
|
Ski Tunnel Paippi and Ski Tunnel Paippi II | 700 m (2,297 ft) | before 2006 |
| Leppävirta
|
Vesileppis Ski Arena | before 2006 | |
 Torsby
|
Fortum Ski Tunnel Torsby | 1,287 m (4,222 ft) | 16 Jun 2006 |
 Oberhof
|
DKB Skisport-Halle Oberhof | 1,754 m (5,755 ft) | 24 Aug 2009 |
| Helsinki
|
Kivikko ski hall | 1,100 m (3,609 ft) | 1 Sep 2009 |
| Gothenburg
|
Skidome | 1,200 m | 2015 |
 Planica
|
Planica Underground XC tunnel | 800 m | 2016 |
References
- ^ http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=1105032
- ^ https://austria-forum.org/af/Heimatlexikon/Schneepalast_-_Wien
- ^ https://diepresse.com/home/zeitgeschichte/5175240/Wien-feiert-seinen-Schneepalast-doch-dann-fallen-Schuesse
- ^ https://www.oe24.at/old-channel/wissen/Wien-hatte-schon-1927-eine-Skihalle/452358
- ^ Australian Ski Lift Directory, section 18. https://www.australianmountains.com/australianskilifts/
- ^ http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/04/29/3747349.htm?site=undefined&xml=3747349-mediarss.xml
- ^ "China's Harbin Wanda Indoor Ski and Winter Sports Resort set to open". www.fis-ski.com. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ "Snowzone". Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Chill Factore". Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ http://www.xscape.co.uk/yorkshire/concessions/sno-zone
- ^ http://www.xscape.co.uk/milton-keynes/concessions/sno-zone
- ^ http://www.snowdome.co.uk/ski-snowboard/
- ^ http://www.thesnowcentre.com/info/about
- ^ Von Bernhard Ichner (26 January 2014). "Die Skistadt Wien - ein historischer Rückblick". Kurier.At. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ https://www.australianmountains.com/australianskilifts/#18
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