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Date(s) Skied: 14/02/2009 or (02/14/2009)
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Dubai
Conditions: Machine Made
Trip Report:
Roled into Dubai after a 14 hour flight and pretty much pulled our stuff out of our ski bags and went to the done... Called a few taxis from my buddies apartments and headed over the few kilometers to the Dubai Mall. The mall is first class.... lots of tourist and rich Arabs in traditional garb.. Including burkas... Nobody really batted an eye at 8 freaks from Hunter walking through a luxury mall with skis and boards...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FduxkFo_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWC0VT3dzXk
One of the first things you see is a big restaurant that looks out over the snow through huge glass windows.... it's setup to look alpine.. Big fireplaces with flat panel TVs playing a recording of a fire...
We get to the Dome a buy tickets... The price was 100 dirhams( 25 US)..
Immediately ran into the guys from Iron Maiden who performed the night before... Thought that was cool.
We buy the tickets and head to the lockers.. My Splitboard was causing quite the stir and I laughed at the irony of bring a split 170 into a ski dome.. Lots of irony this whole trip.. But this was the first good one...
After changing we went through the turn styles into the dome... You walk through a glass door into the dome and it's a blast of cold wet air... the temp is about -1c .... It's pretty warm.. And humid...
The lift is right outside the door... Walked through another turn style activated by proximity of the ticket... Kinda cool... They had a few rails... A aerial bag... and a 1/4pipe at the top that was being fixed....
The lift is a quad with a middle station... The middle station had a cafe..... No booze so we didn't stop...
(Middle Station)
(AVI Cafe')
(Bag)
Just after the middle station the chair makes a left turn to finish the ride...
The snow was typical man made.... No ice...
We did a few runs and left for an afternoon on the beach... Body surfing in the Arabian sea, smoking shisha(only flavored tobacco) and drinking beer...
Dubai was amazing...
Next stop.... The Himalayas! KASHMIR!!!!!! Curry POW!!!
Resort or Ski Area: Ski Dubai
Conditions: Machine Made
Trip Report:
Roled into Dubai after a 14 hour flight and pretty much pulled our stuff out of our ski bags and went to the done... Called a few taxis from my buddies apartments and headed over the few kilometers to the Dubai Mall. The mall is first class.... lots of tourist and rich Arabs in traditional garb.. Including burkas... Nobody really batted an eye at 8 freaks from Hunter walking through a luxury mall with skis and boards...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9FduxkFo_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWC0VT3dzXk
One of the first things you see is a big restaurant that looks out over the snow through huge glass windows.... it's setup to look alpine.. Big fireplaces with flat panel TVs playing a recording of a fire...
We get to the Dome a buy tickets... The price was 100 dirhams( 25 US)..
Immediately ran into the guys from Iron Maiden who performed the night before... Thought that was cool.
We buy the tickets and head to the lockers.. My Splitboard was causing quite the stir and I laughed at the irony of bring a split 170 into a ski dome.. Lots of irony this whole trip.. But this was the first good one...
After changing we went through the turn styles into the dome... You walk through a glass door into the dome and it's a blast of cold wet air... the temp is about -1c .... It's pretty warm.. And humid...
The lift is right outside the door... Walked through another turn style activated by proximity of the ticket... Kinda cool... They had a few rails... A aerial bag... and a 1/4pipe at the top that was being fixed....
The lift is a quad with a middle station... The middle station had a cafe..... No booze so we didn't stop...
(Middle Station)
(AVI Cafe')
(Bag)
Just after the middle station the chair makes a left turn to finish the ride...
The snow was typical man made.... No ice...
We did a few runs and left for an afternoon on the beach... Body surfing in the Arabian sea, smoking shisha(only flavored tobacco) and drinking beer...
Dubai was amazing...
Next stop.... The Himalayas! KASHMIR!!!!!! Curry POW!!!
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