The De Uithof indoor snow centre in The Netherlands, is set to re-open this month with new management.

The De Uithof indoor snow centre in The Netherlands, is set to re-open this month with new management, after facing a myriad of unshakable hurdles that forced the centre’s closure this past spring. Continue reading ‘Dutch Dome opens up under new management’

The steel structure is all in place and construction continues for the snowdome in Netherlands.

Now being caught on film can be as simple as ever. SnowWorld Zoetermeer in the Netherlands, has introduced automated indoor video filming on demand as a new service available to its clients. Continue reading ‘SnowWorld offers a video on demand service for visitors’

The SnowDome De Uithof in the Netherlands filed for bankruptcy this morning citing operational difficulties.

Citing operational difficulties beyond its control, the SnowDome De Uithof in the Netherlands filed for bankruptcy this morning following a spate of major operational problems SkiRebel magazine has learned.
The centre, which was the country’s fifth to open, ten years ago and was the largest facility of its kind until a bigger facility was built in Germany a couple of years later, saw the roof of the adjoining ice rink collapse last winter due to the weight of snow which triggered a series of sequential events leading to its closure.
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Dutch Snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij had a second triumphant home coming to the Netherlands at the end of the season last month.

Nicolien who won the country’s first ever Alpine sports gold medal in snowboarding at the Vancouver Olympics returned to celebrate her win at SnowWorld Zoetermeer where she had carried out a lot of her training.

Hundreds of Dutch Winter Sports fans were there to honour Nicolien who reported she was very happy with all the attention.

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The result of one day of summer mountain cleanup.

Mountain clean up events are an emerging trend in increasingly green Europe, and one Dutch group is looking forward to a summer season of picking up trash.

The Dutch Respect the Mountains organisation, not to be confused with The Ski Club of Great Britain’s Respect The Mountain initiative, is hoping to run some of these events this summer.

Last summer the organisation ran two highly successful EnviroTreks events. The first of these was staged on the ski slopes above the Austrian resort town of Mayrhofen. Mountain bike guides led more than 40 people on the clean up, with 12 bin bags full of trash collected in only two hours of cleaning up.

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Snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij made Dutch Olympic history when she became the first athlete from her country to win a medal in a snow discipline.

The 30-year old’s medal in the Ladies parallel giant slalom was also the 100th for the Netherlands in Olympic history. The Dutch are traditional powerhouses in speed skating, but not alpine skiing or snowboarding.

Sauerbreij did much of her training at Dutch indoor snow slope SnowWorld Landgraaf, and staff there are very proud of her accomplishment.

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Snow World Landgraaf in the Netherlands gives skiers both options this month.

Right beside the Netherlands’ massive indoor snow centre, Snow World Landgraaf, cold weather has led to the opening of a 2km outdoor ski run on the same hill the snow dome is built on.

According to a report, skiers have ridden the indoor centre’s six-seat chairlift, walked out an emergency exit door, and acessed the outdoor slope since it was opened on January 9th. The temporary trail winds down around the 90m high Wilhelmina mountain.

Snow World Landgraaf, with its 550m slope, is the world’s largest year round indoor snow centre. It’s built on the side of Wilhelmina mountain, which is in fact a spoil heap from a former mine.

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