I went snowboarding in 100-degree weather for less than $100 — here's the verdict

If you like being outdoors, Dubai is an amazing city to visit. You can play golf, go kite-surfing, scuba dive, and go "dune-bashing" in the desert.

Or you can just sit on the beach.

But Dubai has a problem. For about five months of the year, being outdoors during the day can be a miserable experience. It's hot and humid, easily over 100 degrees and sometimes closer to 110.

The city — which is big on tourism— has an answer to that: Shopping malls. Dubai has the biggest, flashiest, most over-the-top shopping malls in the world.

But I hate shopping malls. They're exhausting and even when you have something you need to buy, the crowds, parking, and long walks are a pain. Unless maybe you're a teenager.

I travel to Dubai a lot, and I try to stay away from the malls. But when I was there last month, I decided I would make one exception ... because I wanted to do something touristy and write about it for Business Insider. And yes, it was 100 degrees during the day so I was not about to hop on a boat or drive into the desert.

I spent a couple of hours at Ski Dubai, an indoor mountainside-themed snow park in the Mall of the Emirates. Ski Dubai has been around for just over a decade, but it's still not the kind of place you come across just anywhere in the world. And, for less than $100, it is an amazing way to stay out of the sun for a few hours on a Saturday.

This is what it was like:

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It was a bright and sunny day, and already the temperature was climbing fast. This is before 9:30 in the morning!

Luckily for me the Mall of Emirates isn't far from where I was staying, so it was a quick trip on the highway.

There it is. You can see the ski slope rising out of the mall as I drove in to the parking.