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| The Malaysian snowboarders |
I love snowboarding so much, maybe i can say i'm bit crazy about it. For me, it's like falling in love at first try when I studied in a university at Alberta, Canada. After my graduation, i went back to Malaysia, a tropical country where summer's all year long. So, i thought it's the end of my snowboarding experience. I sold all my equipment to my friends in Canada.
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| View from the highest peak of the ski resort |
Recently, i went to Abu Dhabi for a company training. I was free during the weekend, so I decided to go snowboarding at one of the world's largest indoor ski resort, Ski Dubai located in Mall of Emirates in Dubai. After almost 2 years I stopped snowboarding, surprisingly I still have what it needs to be a good snowboarder. I thought, it would be difficult for me to snowboarding after quite some time. It's such great feeling to be snowboarding again. I can feel the adrenaline running in my veins producing dopamine.I tried to improve my jumping skills and i guess it's getting better, i guess I can considered this as warm up for me before going to mountain in Korea next January. Really looking forward for the trip.
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| View from the the end of the run |
Ski Dubai is not a big ski resort, it only has 22500 squares metres skiing area which 2 lifts, a quad lift and a tow lift. So, basically, Ski Dubai is the smallest ski resort i ever been. It features 5 slopes of varying steepness and difficulty. It also has world's first indoor black run with length of 400 m. For me, the best thing of this ski resort, it has it's own terrain park with quite variations of boxes, rails and jumps. Overall, paying UAE 300 dirham for the day pass is worthy to snowboarding in a place where there's huge desert outside the place.
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| Entrance to the quad chair lift |
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| They also have snowpark for those who dont want to skiing or snowboarding |
