In one of the best reuse scenarios a skier can dream up, there’s a sand-skiing slope in Germany made from a gigantic mound of mining byproduct. The little hamlet of Hirschau, Germany, deep in ...

Who Needs Snow When You Can Ski Through Sand? Good times all year round. By Avery Thompson Published: Dec 07, 2016 5:49 PM EST. Save Article. GoPro // YouTube.

At this ski resort, winter-averse adventurers can experience speeding down a giant slope made of sand. According to Atlas Obscura , Monte Kaolino is an artificial mountain consisting of 35 million ...

No lift tickets, no lines, no special gear, no snow. Just strap on skis, clamber up a big dune and cut wide, lazy turns. Sand skiing is half as fast as snow skiing but can be just as addictive ...

GoPro released a new sand skiing edit called "Dunes," which showcased Jesper Tjäder and Emma Dahlström turning a Peruvian dune into a terrain park. Greasing 12-meter S-rails in a Peruvian desert?

Skiing purists, however, head to Namibia, one of the places where the whole sand-instead-of-snow trend developed. A German-born skier named Henrik May began skiing the dunes of the Namib Desert after ...

Approaching the dunes, Sand Mountain comes into view. With the end of the Ice Age, some 15,000 years ago, came the drying of Lake Bonneville, which once covered 20,000 square miles of the Great Basin.