A snowboard rental shop in the middle of the Sahara Desert may seem like fever-induced mirage, but such an oxymoron actually exists.
Dune-boarding is the art of riding a snowboard down, you guessed it, sand dunes.
Patrick Steel, writing for The Guardian, takes us on a journey to Morocco where $12 rents a typical snowboard and boots. This part of the Western Sahara is blessed with tall, steep sand dunes where one can actually pick up quite a bit of speed boarding down it before eating a mouthful of sand at the bottom. The trick, Steel writes, is to balance your weight on the back of the snowboard to prevent the front end from dipping in the sand and flipping you over.
It sounds pretty cool and it sure beats slamming your head into an icy snow bank (which is my usual method of boarding).