Bearfire Resort - Where Skiing Meets Texas
Written on December 5th, 2007 at 12:30 pm by Bill
Filed Under: Featured, Ski News
Skiing, this is Texas… Texas, meet my friend skiing. Now don't kill each other.
Well if you can ski in London and if you can ski in Dubai, then someone was going to bring skiing to Texas.
Scheduled to open in 2009 is Bearfire Resort, located in close proximity to Dallas and Fort Worth.
The Bearfire Resort will be open year-round using a virtual snow surface called Snowflex:
Snowflex is a polymer composite consisting of a monofilament fiber and impregnated carrier layer. This sits on top of a unique shock layer, giving a responsive and reactive feel. Manufactured in tile form, Snowflex forms a homogeneous surface that can be made into complex features and shapes.
This appears to be an extremely ambitious project. Not only will 250-foot tall, 35-acre artificial Glacier Peak offer skiing and snowboarding, it will also attempt to create a ski mountain atmosphere.
A gondola will transport skiers and boarders to the peak, slicing through a ice crevasse and skimming a glacial lagoon.
Bearfire Resort also has ice skating trails, snowball caverns, glacier climbing wall, ice rafts, tobogganing, bobsleds and a tubing hill.
Get the full Bearfire Resort fake experience by watching this video:
It remains to be seen if the idea will translate into success after the initial hype has worn away. If Bearfire Resort is a hit, expect one to show up in Vegas before you know it.
Is this where the future of skiing is headed with the threat of global warming?
Snowflex Guy
Dec. 06, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Open in 2009???? Who told you that? These guys don’t have a lick of financing yet. What they do have is a fantastic marketing machine. They are hoping to generate interest that will bring in the bucks. Wait till they announce financing until you start believing the hype.
I’ve skied on Snowflex. It’s fantastic. It’s not snow for sure, but it’s skiable. A lot slower than snow. They’ve done a good job with it.
SFG
Bill
Dec. 06, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Yeah, their website says that it will open in the fall of 2009 but that doesn’t mean that it will happen.
That is interesting to hear about the Snowflex though, I would love to try it out some time. Apparently their are about 30 places in Europe using Snowflex but nothing near the scale of what Bearfire Resort will be (if it is ever financed and built).
sportsgal
Dec. 07, 2007 at 8:50 pm
I would be interested to try this Snowflex stuff. If it is good, they could build ski mountains anywhere. How about one here in Santa Barbara?