Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/skiing-equipment

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Skirider


A Skirider is a kind of scooter designed to work on snow in 2002 by 2004 British inventor of the year Andrew Hubert von Staufer winning Platinum for design and Gold leisure. It was invented to make the slopes more accessible to people whose physical limitations prevented them from skiing but ironically it soon caught on with extreme sports enthusiasts. It won Silver prize at Salon Des Inventions in Geneva in 2005 and is increasing in popularity. It won its first slope approvals in Whistler B.C. in early December 2005 and quickly became approved for popular ski resort slopes around the world meeting health and safety standards for the following slopes:

;Austria :Mayrhofen, St Christoph, St Stefan

;Canada :Cypress Mountain, Fernie Alpine Resort, Red Mountain Resort, Sun Peaks, Whistler-Blackcomb

;France :Saisies, Les Menuires, Morillon, Val-d'Isère

;Greenland :Nuuk,

;Italy :Bolzano, Val Gardena

;Serbia :Kapaonik

;Slovenia :Krvavec, Soriska Planina, Vogel

;Switzerland :Davos

;United Kingdom :Milton Keynes (indoor), Pontypool (artificial), Tamworth (indoor)

;USA :Aspen, Mount Lemmon, Winter Park

In 2006 it came in second place on Sky 1's The Big Idea.

References

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Skirider — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report