Weird and Wonderful: Ski Slopes in Summer
It is amazing to think of the diversity of sub cultures alive and thriving around us all the time. I recently got lost in Stoke on Trent and came across one of the oddest places that I have ever seen. It was a traditional ski chalet built next to a dry ski slope. You walked in and there were the traditional benches where people would sit and put on skis and a bar, all kitted out in wood panelling that served things like mulled wine and hot chocolate. The thing is, there was not a flake of snow in sight and it was 21 degrees out! There was no need to wear ski jackets or anything of the sort, but the skiers were wearing all of the kit.
It gets a bit weirder. I stopped for a lovely glass of mulled wine and ended up having a long conversation with the owner about chaos theory. What does chaos theory have to do with dry slope skiing? It seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, something about how it needed to be designed without any order to appear random and replicate nature. At this point I was on my second mug of wine so it wasn’t very clear. I was left wondering why on earth the people of England have embraced things like skiing and snowboarding when there are no mountains and not a regular amount of snow?
Watch the video above with the cute French kids in their winter snow suits and you understand in a country with the Alps that everybody would embrace the love of the sport from a young age. Perhaps I am being a bit of a euro sceptic, maybe the whole point is that we are closer to Europe and its brilliant slopes and snowy winters, than I feel in the cold winter rain of Northern England.
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