San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club year-round as well as various educational activities such as Learn-to-Curl sessions. In September 2017 the SFBACC announced they had signed a lease agreement for a building in Oakland with the intention of building California's only dedicated curling center. The facility will have five curling sheets and is expected to open in the fall of 2018. The SFBACC has hosted the Golden Gate Bonspiel annually each spring during Memorial Day weekend since 2008. The tournament is held at Solar4America Ice at Fremont. The club teaches Learn-to-Curl events throughout the year to expose new people to the sport. During the Winter Olympic
Winter sport in Australia The Alpine regions are subject to environmental protection, which has limited the scope of commercial development of skiiable terrain, however Australia has extensive cross country skiing terrain. The sport of snowboarding is also popular in the Australian skifields and Australia has been represented at the Olympics in this sport ever since it debuted at Nagano in 1998. Torah Bright, of the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma, New South Wales, won gold for Australia at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 in the women's snowboard halfpipe event. Australia finished on top of the medal tally at the snowboarding world championships in 2012.