Dubai and Other Places You Probably Don’t Associate with Skiing



Weburbanist has a neat post about 5 Places You’ve Probably Never Thought to Go Skiing. Amongst the far out places are Lebanon (check the weather and the political climate before you go), Bolivia (the highest ski slope in the world) and this one above: Dubai.

The Ski Dubai indoor slope has over 20,000 square meters of interior space and accommodates snowboarding and sledding in addition to skiing. Since it is, of course, not weather-dependent it is open all year round with five runs of varying difficulty and a freestyle zone. The building is highly energy-efficient but of course no indoor ski area in the desert can be considered environmentally friendly.

How much money do they have anyways? Link


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Posted on March 25, 2008 at 5:01 am by Alex
Category: Sports, Travel & Places



6 Comments to "Dubai and Other Places You Probably Don’t Associate with Skiing"

  • Jess
    March 25th, 2008 at 5:33 am

    Interesting that NZ is on there, and Australia isn’t. For me it’s super obvious that NZ has ski slopes, while it’s weird that we have them here in Australia.

  • Retrokatze
    March 25th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    “How much money do they have anyways?”

    Obviously not enough to feed 90% of their population…

  • Jerse
    March 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    @Retrokatze

    What?? Dubai is one of the richest cities in the world. The people there are not starving… better check your facts next time chief.

    And another place you wouldn’t expect to go skiing would be in Rutherford, New Jersey (like 10 mins away from New York City). They are building the Xanadu there, it’s some monstrosity that’s taking over the area Giant Stadium used to be. They are supposed to big a huge ski slope there too… I think it’s the first one in America too…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlands_Xanadu

  • fluff
    March 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    I cannot help myself but I have quite a problem with places like Dubai having artificial ski slopes. In my opinion it’s hard to top the decadence of that nowadays. But hey; it’s just me.

  • Beth
    March 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    How much money do they have anyways

    Tons, thanks to you and me and our dependence on their oil. :sigh:

    /sorry, politics; too easy

  • Beth
    March 25th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    of course no indoor ski area in the desert can be considered environmentally friendly.

    Like they give a damn.

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