Like so many other things here, Ski Dubai is both impressive and just a little odd. It's the largest indoor ski hill in the world with two 400m runs and a whopping 90m of vertical drop. Don't ask me how they pay the air conditioning bill, but they actually keep the place at a balmy -2 degrees C all day and night and make their own snow. Sure it's no Whistler (shut it, Halliday), but considering this is the middle of the farking desert it's not all bad.
It costs 120 DHS (about $30 CDN) to ski or snowboard there and that includes all equipment and winter gear. I ran into a few other Canadians there today and of course we had all ditched the ski jacket and pants in favour of hoodies and shorts so we could soak up the oh-so-lovely "mountain air". A ride up the chairlift takes about three minutes and a run down, including a couple of jumps in the terrain park, takes about 45 seconds. Watch 45 seconds of Pure Adrenaline .
Sure it's not much, but considering the nearest proper mountain is in Cypress or Kenya I'll take what I can get.
