Snow Dome Shredding

In the last weekend of the winter break, I went on an awesome adventure with the family of one of my good friends at my school. After telling my school friend about my love for skiing, he was intrigued to try it himself. The only problem was my placement in Germany. As I have said many other times throughout my blog posts, I live in a flat, warm location far far away from any real mountains.

As I researched alternatives to ski area skiing, I found the website to Bispingen Snow Dome, which is a huge indoor ski resort located around two and a half hours away by car. The Snow dome consists of a 300m long 100m wide indoor artificial ski slope, as well as a six person high-speed chairlift, which is extremely impressive given it's all inside of a building. One side of the indoor slope even had a little terrain park to mess around on.

After sharing my discoveries with my friend, he was kind enough to help pay for a day ticket for my birthday if we ever went, which meant the idea of skiing was getting closer to becoming a reality. Instead of just going with my friend from school, I ended up going with his entire family which was a lot of pressure given none of them had ever skied before. I now had the pressure of teaching them all how to ski... in German. I also knew that if it was a disaster, it would have been my fault, since going skiing was my idea in the first place.

Despite all of the pressure for things to work out, the family that I went with ended up having a lot of fun, and my school friend alongside his brother (who is my brother's age) looked pretty good on skis by the end of the day (despite being a little reckless)

As for me, I had to get used to the incredibly heavy rental skis that I was riding. It was interesting seeing the skiing atmosphere from the tourist's point of view, because rental equipment just isn't the same.

The Bispingen Snow Dome was quite the experience. I had never skied indoors before, and although it wasn't quite like skiing on a mountain, I can now check off skiing on exchange off my bucket list.