What is Perma-Snow?
Perma-Snow is a revolutionary artificial dry ski and snowboard surface. The surface has been developed to try and create a surface that feels like real snow. Even more so than the existing dry ski slope surfaces like Dendix, and snowflex.
Perma-snow is produced in rectangular white mats. Each mat is made up of thousands of small plastic hoops which have just the right amount of flex to allow ski and snowboard edges to push between them and allow for turning and carving on your skis or snowboard.
In my opinion, the perma-snow surface is most like skiing or snowboarding on hard packed snow. The surface is also much easier to ski or snowboard on when it is damp, so I would recommend getting out there during or after it has rained (unless of course your local perma-snow dry slope has a sprinkler system of course). The only downside to perma-snow when it is wet is the fact that it can be very difficult to stop on at high speed and it does tend to feel more like ice when it comes to slowing yourself down.
One of the main advantages to learning to snowboard on perma-snow is the fact that it has a spongey underlay which will help to cushion your falls and there aren’t any holes in it that you could catch your fingers in, like you can on dendix.
The surface is relatively new and is only available on a few dry ski slopes in the UK but if you feel like giving it a try, you can do so at the following snowboarding dry slopes and ski resorts in the Uk…
Tags: Dryslope, Learning to Snowboard, Perma-snow, snowboard resorts Uk
