Nov 21 2007Polymer Snow Debuts At Ski Resort In Texas!

Texas based Bearfire Resort is using Snowflex, a polymer-based snow substitute, to cover its ski trails. The resort hopes to be operational by '09, and will offer year round skiing and snowboarding. So yeah, that's wack. It just won't be the same urinating your name in the snow anymore. Because it won't be snow. It'll be plastic. And peeing in plastic is only fun on long car trips. You know, when you don't want to pull over and happen to have a half empty Gatorade bottle handy.
Polymer-based snow = skiing cowboys [core77]
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Reader Comments
1. Goro - November 21, 2007 2:20 PM
First comments are awful
2. Steve - November 21, 2007 2:27 PM
hey Gia, how does a DoS attack sound?
3. RandomNigel - November 21, 2007 2:51 PM
How the hell are you supposed to snowboard on that?
...And wouldn't it be unneccasarily warm without the actual snow?
And what do they do when it actually snows out there?
4. Nat - November 21, 2007 3:18 PM
They took the fun out of it. D:
5. Edan - November 21, 2007 4:02 PM
What do you wear on the hill?
6. gia - November 21, 2007 4:26 PM
huh?
7. CLICK HERE - November 21, 2007 6:09 PM
Cool! But I really don't understand what's this...
8. woodhorse - November 21, 2007 6:37 PM
I will give you all a first hand account as it is going up in Ft. Worth and is a 20 minute car trip for me. There is also a muti multi million dollar renovation going on with the river running through downtown (supposed to be better than San Antonio) so it is going to be really cool to hang out with me soon. Samuel L. Jackson level of cool.
9. Rick - November 22, 2007 12:59 AM
Does it seem odd to anyone else to want to cover the earth in plastic?
10. Ace - November 22, 2007 2:42 AM
So how does this stuff decompose?
11. poop - November 22, 2007 8:02 AM
soon we won't need nukes. if the idiots in the middle east keep feeding us these kinds of ideas, we'll eradicate the nation before iran ever gets the bomb.
this is the single stupidest thig that i've seen anyone do in my entire life. i'll never go to houston again. they're starting up a program to use drone aircraft for traffic violations and "covert tactical" operations in that city as well. that's one place to avoid my friends... avoid it at all cost. there is no "cool" in houston. only a bunch of oxygen starved morons.
new orleans? shit! before you know it, we'll be rescuing houston from themselves. could you imagine how nasty that plastic will be after all of god's creatures piss and shit all over that stuff? then you get to breathe it in, all the particles and germs on the surface of the plastic, breeding and spreading. there's been no testing for this stuff... how do we know it doesn't promote bacterial growth? this could be the starting point for the downfall of man. jESUS fuKcign HCrist!!! what the hell!!
it's texas... why do they even own skis?
prime exmple of the "immediate gratification" oriented society that we live in. everybody wants what they want, no matter where they are, or what the consequences are. fucking unbelievable.
12. woodhorse - November 22, 2007 9:02 AM
11: we own skis because we own Colorado and yes, Houston is a dump
13. Tim - November 22, 2007 9:21 AM
they wears their birthday suit, that's enough!!! do you know No shoes, no clothes: no problem.? lol!
14. HOT GIRLS - November 22, 2007 5:14 PM
very weird but interesting
15. spudwh0re - November 22, 2007 11:13 PM
Sweet. I live right around the way from this. And you dumb fuckers (i.e. 11) Can eat that shit you just sprayed all over my screen. Houston is where the leftovers from Katrina wound up. Would you want to monitor that shit? I think so. As for the rest of Texas giving a shit about H-Town. Heh fuck um, they can drown. This is all part of us getting ready to host the SuperBowl.
Either way, this kicks ass. I cant wait for it to open.
16. yub - November 23, 2007 1:22 AM
As mentioned above, how do they clean this stuff? Otherwise this is kind of neat. In spite of global warming, my future children can still experience snow.
17. nanakd - November 23, 2007 1:32 AM
very interesting. Clebrity and rich people care this very much. They are discussing this on the forum of celebrities dating site Many people joined the discussion and debate there.
18. greg - November 23, 2007 4:30 PM
this fucking plastic hurts a lot whe you fall
19. Cobes04 - November 27, 2007 9:23 AM
Pretty sweet tech here. I'd like to point out that this is a significant advancement over the current snow-less skiing. As I understand it the current method involves a covering a slope with a slick nylon sheet and a lot of small polyurethane triangles and discs. That tech has been around for over a decade, and it's already safer than actual snow (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906181,00.html).
11. Get a life, commentard.
20. poop - November 28, 2007 2:50 PM
certainly didn't think they'd cry about it. that was thoroughly unexpected.
21. Dan - November 30, 2007 9:16 AM
By the way, Snowflex is NOT a new technology. They have been using it for years here in the UK, most notably at Sheffield Ski Village (http://www.sheffieldskivillage.co.uk).
Here's a video of Snowflex in use there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxYcSKTTYQ