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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...