Snow Types And Names Glossary

This is a list originally started by Physicsman in the Names for Different Types of Snow thread. Please feel free to add to the list or add definitions and descriptions if you have time and the inclination.  Just click the Edit button

1. Artificial Snow
2. Avi Debris
3. Baby Heads
4. Ball Bearings (just like it says; little firm balls of snow rolling around under your skis; good luck)
5. BBs
6. Bear snot, barking snot, threadbear, crud
7. Blower
8. Blue (clear ice; you can see through it)

1. Boilerplate (see Bullet-Proof)
2. Boot-Packed
3. Bottomless
4. Breakable Crust (top is frozen solid but not deeply; under that is soft powder; you break through)
5. Brown Snow (Ie, Mud Showing Through)
6. Buffed
7. Bullet-Proof (it's white, but you can't put any dents in it)
8. Bumped Up
9. Bumpy
10. Butter
11. California Concrete - Heavy Wet Snow From A Pacific Storm.
12. Cardboard
13. Cascade Concrete
14. Cauliflower Snow
15. Champagne Powder
16. Chicken Heads

1. Chocolate Chip
2. Chokable (As In Powder So Fine And Deep You Can Choke On It)
3. Chop (freshly fallen snow that's been skied enough to chop it up but hasn't formed bumps yet)
4. Chowder (heavy wet lumpy snow)
5. Chunk
6. Clank
7. Classic Colorado Persistent Depth Hoar
8. Clunk
9. Coarse
10. Cold Smoke
11. Colorado Super Chunk - Heavy Wet Snow About 2 Days After A Spring Storm.
12. Compacted / Un-Compacted
13. Confectioner's Sugar
14. Coral Reef
15. Corduroy, Cord
16. Corn (large, loose, hollow granules of snow that roll around over each other, deeply; usually found in spring)
17. Cornice
18. Cream Cheese
19. Creamed Corn
20. Creation Conditions
21. Crud
22. Crumb
23. Crushed Soda Cans (Aka Death Cookies)
24. Crust
25. Cut-Up, Skied-In
26. Dandruff
27. Death Cookies
28. Deep S#!!
29. Diamond
30. Dirty
31. Drifted
32. Dry
33. Dry Powder
34. Dust On Crust
35. Eastern Firm ™
36. Eastern Powder (artificial snow)
37. Edgy
38. Egg Carton
39. Elephant Snot
40. Fast
41. Fine
42. Firm (see Frozen Granular)
43. First Snow
44. Flake
45. Flake Morphology: Plates, Stellars, Columns, Needles, Dendrites
46. Fluff
47. Formica (hard like white formica)
48. Freshies
49. Frozen Granular (artificial snow groomed and regroomed day after day; hard snow)
50. Frozen suede (looks like the name says)
51. Glacier Terms (E.G., Serac, Bergschrund, Ice Fall, Etc.)
52. Glass
53. Glop
54. Goop
55. Gorilla Glue / Gorilla Snot
56. Granular (Loose, Frozen, Wet)
57. Graupel
58. Green Snow (Grass Patches)
59. Grippy
60. Groomed
61. Hammered
62. Harbor Chop
63. Hardpack
64. Hero Snow, Ego Snow
65. Hoar (Surface Hoar, Depth Hoar, Sucrotic)
66. Hollow (Or “Whumphy”)
67. Ice
68. Injected
69. Ivory
70. Junk
71. Lake Effect Snow
72. Loud Powder
73. Machine Groomed Powder
74. Machine-Loosened Granular
75. Mang / Mank
76. Man-Made
77. Mashed Potatoes
78. Melting Snow
79. Moguled
80. Monkey Snot
81. Muck
82. Mush / Porridge
83. New England Powder (ie, that blue and glossy stuff)
84. New Snow
85. Norelco (Referring To "Untracked Powder)
86. Old
87. Packed
88. Packed Powder (i.e., the infamous “PP” of ski rpts)
89. peanut butter (sticky spring snow)
90. Pellets
91. Pow / Pow-Pow / Powder (New, Old, Light, Champagne, Heavy, Cut-Up -Some Dupes Here)
92. Red Snow
93. Rime Ice
94. Rotted
95. Rubber Cement (sticky; it slows/stops your skis)
96. Salt on Formica (looks and feels like lots of little loose white grains sliding around on white formica)
97. Salted
98. Sand
99. Sastrugi
100. Schmeg / Schmegma
101. Scratchy
102. Screaming Lobsters (aka, Squeaky Snow)
103. Settled
104. Shardy
105. Shattered Glass (Aka Death Cookies)
106. "Should've Been Here Last Week..." Snow
107. “Should've Been Here In 85-86' Snow”
108. 10 AM Powder
109. Sierra Cement
110. Skank
111. Slop
112. Sloppy Seconds
113. Slough
114. Slow
115. Sludge
116. Slurry
117. Slush
118. snizzle
119. Snow
120. Snow Snakes
121. Snowgun Hell (Can I Say That Word Here?)
122. Soft Snow
123. Sos (Slab On Soft)
124. souffle dure It is naturally packed, firm snow like you might get long after any snow-fall on a north facing, steep, seldom skied couloir
125. Soup 
126. Spindrift
127. Spring Conditions
128. Squeaky (ie, Cold And Dry)
129. Sticky
130. Styrofoam (Nee. Graupel; feels just like skiing on styrofoam, sounds hollow)
131. Sublimed
132. Sugar
133. Summer Glacier Snow
134. Sun Cups
135. Talc
136. Terracotta
137. Thin Cover
138. Tin
139. Tinfoil
140. Toy Snow
141. Tracked-Up / Untracked
142. Unconsolidated Snow
143. Undercut
144. Unstable
145. Variable Conditions
146. Virgin Powder
147. Walrus Snot
148. Washboard (Frozen Cord)
149. Wet
150. Wet Blanket
151. wet powder (rain over powder - really fast and nasty)
152. White Dust
153. White Gold
154. White Smoke
155. Wind buffed
156. Wind Crust
157. Wind Packed
158. Wind Slab
159. Wind Waves
160. Wind-Blown
161. Windf__Ked
162. Windlips
163. Windslab
164. Yellow Snow (As Immortalized By Mr. F. Zappa)
165. Zambonified

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