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Branny 
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Post subject: The Dryslope connection
 Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 06:42 PM
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First post: Oct 11, 2004
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Location: Is in the U freakin' K
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Always been loads of you real snow snobs  saying what resorts you have been to.... how about a thread to show some dryslope love
so where abouts in this fair land have you burnt the base of your board on permasnow?? broken a bone on dendix or slimed yourself on unkempt snowflex (other surfaces are available)....
Christchurch/Snowtrax.. I learnt to ride here in hard boots and asymetrical boards on dendix... need to go to check out the new surface.
sheffield.. pre and post snowflex
the mighty Halifax
Yeovil's Dendix of doom RIP
Warmwell (dendix, playgrass and snowflex)
JNL Bracknell
Hemel (pre fridge)
Plymouth
Aldershot
Catterick indoor dryslope... weird stuff can't remember what it was called but the place has burnt down anyway
Calshot (indoor snowflex...sick)
Southampton
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dashie
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Post subject: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:08 PM
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First post: Sep 24, 2007
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I found one right by work today, polmont nr Falkirk. Doesn't run very often and is a small narrow slope but it looks like it would collect snow well in the winter.
I've never ridden dryslope other than on skis at rossendale yrs ago and on a sledge at llandudno. I'll start going once it's closer than a snowdome |
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Post subject: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:23 PM
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First post: Mar 28, 2011
Total posts: 126
Location: Telford
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| i go on the death carpet (dendex) every week at telford ski and snowboard center |
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Post subject: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:25 PM
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Just the one in Aberdeen for me so far.
I noticed it was in last months Whitelines for having one of the most dangerous wall/box thing they've ever seen!!
Still struggling to lie on my back after a nasty fall last Tuesday. The bruises are starting to disappear. Hopefully I can get some back protection before next Tuesday!! |
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Post subject: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:32 PM
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First post: Feb 20, 2007
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Location: That snowboarding hotbed, Norfolk
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I learnt my stock and trade on the majestic trowse mountain, otherwise known as Norfolk Ski Club in Norwich.
I was at uni in Aberdeen, but unfortunately that was before the Aberdeen slope was renovated so I've never ridden there. I was gonna pop on there when visiting a friend, but you had to get signed off so I couldn't do it 
I did used to travel to Edinburgh to go to Hillend every know and again which was cool... |
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Branny
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Post subject: Re: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:39 PM
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Location: Is in the U freakin' K
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charlie
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Post subject: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:42 PM
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First post: Oct 11, 2004
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Location: York
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Halifax - Love the kicker
Sheffield
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Bearsden - 2nd best kicker in the UK
Tallington Lakes - Learnt to ski there! |
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p3eps
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Post subject: Re: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 07:51 PM
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ace_mcgraw wrote:
I was gonna pop on there when visiting a friend, but you had to get signed off so I couldn't do it
I guess it depends when you go. My mate went 3 weeks in a row having never strapped a board to his feet and just went straight on the main slope. I actually had to show him how to strap in the first time!
As long as its not too busy, they don't seem to mind anymore. Everyone takes turn about anyway - so its not like he's going to hit anyone! |
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Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 08:22 PM
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First post: Feb 05, 2005
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Location: St Albans
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I paid my dues at pontypool dryslope, learnt to ride there and sessioned that sketchy gaspipe rail regularly when i took the uni society there for about 3 years.
Awesome long slope, was cheap as hell, but the draglift was something of a nightmare for learners and experienced alike.
I liked it for being cheap and a good laugh with mates, but now i live so near a fridge i don't think i'd ride dendix again by choice.
Also ridden gloucester which was so-so, fairwater (cardiff) and avon (pure crap!!). |
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Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 09:55 PM
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First post: Oct 12, 2004
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You not ride the Wycombe summit Branny?
Hillingdon
Aylesbury
Hemel
All gone as dry slopes.
Been to loads more with Jake but not riden. |
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Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 10:03 PM
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Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 10:02 AM
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First post: Oct 13, 2008
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| Is there not a dryslope at Welwyn Garden City? |
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Post subject: Re: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 11:16 AM
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First post: Nov 13, 2010
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Location: Glasgow-ish
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dashie wrote:
I found one right by work today, polmont nr Falkirk.
It's sh1t. If it's snowwing and you are in the area go to the golfcourse nearby, or travel 10 minutes to Cockelroy - no button tow but much better fun.
My friend learned at Polmont, I learned at Hillend which is pretty boss. Still not been to any Glasgow area dry slopes |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 12:49 PM
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First post: Oct 03, 2011
Total posts: 44
Location: Stirling
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Swadlincote
Glasgow ski and board center
Some slope near pembrey
and the mountain lodge in snowdonia no idea what the last two are called
CWJ I was thinking of heading to glasgow ski and board center again in the next fortnight or so and get my kicker skills down before the airbag appears at Xscape if you wanna come it's sketchy as hell and covered in leaves and sh1t but I can live with it when its 7 quid for a day |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: The Dryslope connection
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 01:40 PM
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First post: Nov 01, 2007
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Dryslope is my home. I spend far more hours a year there than I do on the real stuff.
Bromley - my home slope, where I learnt and now teach. Handy only a couple of minutes away in the car.
Also ridden over the years
Chatham
Bracknell
High Wycombe
Brentwood
When I was a kid my parents used to go to this hotel somewhere I can't remember that was attched to a golf course, but also had their own dryslope. My parents used to play golf, and leave me to ski, it was brilliant. There also used to be a tiny little slope at Crystal Palace park but you had to walk up it, and it had quite a few trees to hit as well. When I went there was no one running it, so to use it we had to take our own skis and boots. |
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