Day 22a--June snow skiing in Slovenia

We kinda stumbled on this gem.  The Planica Nordic Centre.  With seven ski jumping hills and a ski flying' hill(!)  Ski flying isn't an Olympic sport so I haven't heard of it before.  It is basically ski jumping taken to obscene lengths and heights.

These are 5 of the 7 year-round ski jumping hills.

Here are the 7 ski jumping hills.  People were practicing on, from left to right
#5 and #6.  The hills on the far left were short for the bunny skiers.

Here is the sky-flying hill on the left.  Winter use only, no plastic to land on.

A close up of the plastic landing surface

They are skiing on what looks like large ball bearings or marbles.  Fast!

They finish on grass, like a putting green!  We watch kids who
were probably 5 or 6 years old!!

Further, they have an underground cross-country ski training track, which Tom realized is actually their winter underground parking garage!

A video grab of a horizontal wind tunnel they use for ski jump training

And, a guy training on the roads around Lake Bled!