HAKONE, Kanagawa Prefecture--A sledding slope ... snow is open at the Hakone-en resort facility on the shores of Lake Ashinoko here to offer winter thrills even if the conditions are dry.

"I think everybody is surprised to start with when they look at it and it's not snow," said Christian Ingels, the director at Copenhill. "It's green dry-slope material. After one or two runs ...

When the opportunity came up to do a day of lessons at The Snow Centre, a dry slope in Hemel Hempstead, I was slightly sceptical that the lessons could be translated onto an actual ski slope ...

Plans for a new dry ski slope area at CairnGorm Mountain snowsports centre near Aviemore have been rejected. The site's operator, Natural Retreats, had proposed one slope for learner skiers and ...