Is this possible? - Indoor Snowboarding

Indoor snowboarding is such a strange concept to me, but for some people it's all they have. Take for example a place like Dubai, where they have a good economy, and the coldest it ever gets is 19 degrees Celsius (66 F) in January. Hence the indoor ski resort. I'll never get a chance to go, simply because I probably can't afford it, but just this past weekend I met my friends sister Sarah who had just got back from a trip to Dubai. Sarah didn't go to Dubai to snowboard but since Ontario had such a terrible winter season this year, she figured what the heck, she'll go snowboarding one day of 2012.  A full day pass at Ski Dubai is 300 Dirhams (equal to $84.25 CDN) and this includes a jacket, trousers, disposable socks, helmet, and your skis/boots/poles or snowboard and boots, not bad.
Dubai is not the only country with indoor ski hills, 17 countries have built indoor ski hills either for summer training or just because the country doesn't have mountains or doesn't even get snow.
Indoor ski hills are built with a climate controlled environment and maintained with artificial snow from a snow gun to provide year-round skiing and snowboarding. The largest dome is SnowWorld in Landgraaf, Netherlands which was built in 2001 where the first indoor FIS World Cup was held in 2003. There are now over 40 snow domes located all over the world, for some good ol' summer boarding.

Welcome to this strange thing we call a ski resort

Just like normal, except there's a roof

Sarah got to wear a pretty sweet outfit

I think I see a park to the left....?

Below is Dutch rider Charlotte Van Gils at her home indoor ski hill in the Netherlands. This is where she learned to ride and it's crazy to think that somewhere as small as this can produce such talent. Charlotte kills it if you haven't heard and she's been traveling all over to compete on the real stuff.

Charlotte Van Gils at her home "mountain" in Holland

 Other indoor ski hills:

• UK
  SNO!zone Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire 
• SNO!zone Castleford, West Yorkshire
  SNO!zone Braehead, Glasgow
  Tamworth Snowdome, Staffordshire
  Chill Factor^e, Trafford Park, Manchester
  The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead
  SnOasis, Great Blakenham
  Wycombe SnowDome, High Wycombe
  Swansea
• Australia
  Coffs Harbour, NSW
• Belgium
  Snow Valley
  Skibaan Casablanca, 's-Gravenwezel
  Ice Mountain, Komen
  Snow Games, Antwerp
• China
  Qiaobo Ice & Snow World, Beijing
  Shanghai Yinqixing Indoor Snow Centre
  Dubai
  Ski Dubai, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai
  
• France
  Snowhall, Amnéville-les-Thermes
• Finland
  Kymppi Arena, Kylpyla Hotelli Vesileppis, Leppavirta
• Germany
  Jever Skihalle Neuss, Dusseldorf
  Alpin Center am Tetraeder, Bottrop
  Snow Funpark, Wittenburg
  Snow Dome Bispingen, Hamburg
  Snowtropolis, Horlitz
  Japan
  SSAWS dome
  Big Air Fukoaka, Fukuoka
  Kamui Snowboard Park, Baraki
  Coolval Tokyo, Tokyo
  Snova Kobe Free-ku, Kobe
  Snowva Hiroshima Boarders Arena, Hiroshima
  Seibuen Yuenchi Snowboard Park, Seitama
• Lithuania
  SNORAS Snow Arena, Druskininkai municipality
  Malaysia
  Lido Boulevard, Jahor area
• Netherlands
  Snow Village, Biddinhuizen
  Montana Snowcentre, Valkenswaard
  Uithof, Den Haag
  Ski Dome, Ruchpen
  SnowWorld, Zoetermeer 
• SnowWorld, Landgraa
• Snowplanet, Spaarnwoude
• New Zealand
  Snowplanet, Auckland
  Singapore
  Snow City, Singapore
• Spain
  Madrid Snowdome, Madrid
• South Africa
  Snowfun, Cape Town
• United States
  Barlow County, Georgia
  Las Vegas