Plans for a 100m indoor snow slope in Aviemore, Scotland have been unveiled by the entrepreneur behind the world’s largest indoor ice climbing wall, also based in Northern Scotland.

The £3.2 million ($6.5m US) complex has outline planning permission for a location within Aviemore Highland Resort – a quality development that has been built on the site of the old Aviemore Centre, which was fashionable in the late 1960s and 1970s before becoming an eyesore in the 1980s and 90s prior to its demolition.
The new snow slope would be part of a complex that would also include an Olympic size ice and curling rink and treetop adventure course. The former Aviemore Centre featured an outdoor artificial surface ski slope and an ice rink.
The developer behind the project, Jamie Smith, believes it will create 40 full time jobs, will provide a cash boost to the local economy where there is constant pressure to diversify further from reliance on the once dominant conventional winter sports market . Mr Smith runs the highly successful Ice Factor climbing wall in Lochaber on Scotland’s West Coast and is developing a similar facility in Burlington, Vermont, home of Burton snowboards already has outline planning permission to develop an indoor and outdoor activity centre at Aviemore.
Mr Smith said he was inspired by the Snow Planet indoor snow centre in New Zealand. He hopes the development will receive full planning permission in the summer and be open by mid-2009.