Ski Slang 2011/2012 edition

JONG = Jerk Off Newbie Gaper (always said with affection, esp. on TGR). 

Gaper refers to tourist types that cruise down mountain roads marked "Speed Limit 45" at 20 mph, backing up traffic while they stare at the mountain splendor they don't have in Houston, et al. 

The rest are pretty accurate.

I always thought a troll was someone who took a ridiculous position they didn't actually support in order to see if they could goad someone else into espousing an even more ridiculous position.

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Originally Posted by jmaie 

I always thought a troll was someone who took a ridiculous position they didn't actually support in order to see if they could goad someone else into espousing an even more ridiculous position.

yep. people take this stuff way to seriously. sometime I let them see how ridiculous they are.

Sluff more often refers to snow cut loose by a skier in the process of turning, and it usually is limited to the current snow layer.    It usually occurs on steep lines. The size of a sluff varies from a one turn release that slides 20 yards, to a release that propagates more snow as it slides the entire fall line of 50 yards or more.  The term sluff actually does not refer specifically to a wind event or a ridge site, though those are contributing factors in many sluffs. Sluff is defined as distinct from snow that releases naturally of its own weight or tension or is bombed to release, and may consist of several layers of snow, and can technically be called an avalanche. As sluff is often used inter-changeably with avalanche, one or the other word is often misused.

Sketch is a term with several meanings: dicy, difficult, barely adequate, on the edge, unsafe or impractical. but also seems to mean cool, good, challenging.

Rad is gaining cred, and seems to mean good but with on the edge or pushing the envelope connotations.

wind load
 

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Originally Posted by Shaggy2010 



Ok so what word do u think of for the actual wind event or end product thereof?

"Twippers" - Park and pipe guys.

I don't usually like making fun of lesser-skilled skiers (hey, we're all in this together, right), but one term has always cracked me up:

SPORE - Stupid Person On Rental Equipment

I've used and heard others use the phrase: Sluffalanche - which I kind of like the sound of.  For those mini avalanches that seem a little too big to just call sluff but aren't significant enough (and without a big fracture line) to call an actual avalanche.
 

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Originally Posted by davluri 

Sluff more often refers to snow cut loose by a skier in the process of turning, and it usually is limited to the current snow layer.    It usually occurs on steep lines. The size of a sluff varies from a one turn release that slides 20 yards, to a release that propagates more snow as it slides the entire fall line of 50 yards or more.  The term sluff actually does not refer specifically to a wind event or a ridge site, though those are contributing factors in many sluffs. Sluff is defined as distinct from snow that releases naturally of its own weight or tension or is bombed to release, and may consist of several layers of snow, and can technically be called an avalanche. As sluff is often used inter-changeably with avalanche, one or the other word is often misused.

 

Sketch is a term with several meanings: dicy, difficult, barely adequate, on the edge, unsafe or impractical. but also seems to mean cool, good, challenging.

 

Rad is gaining cred, and seems to mean good but with on the edge or pushing the envelope connotations.

A sluff is big enough to knock your ass down, hard, and plow you into a tree or over a cliff, or smash you into rocks. A sluff is big enough to get all my respect. Sometimes you want to link your turns in the fall line an' all, but it is not wise, better to shift your line to one side and let your sluff move through.  Check Shane in one of his matchstick films, not too happy about his tactics with respect to a sluff above screamin' sea-min, that totally ruined his day.

Sounds like a sluffalanche to me. 
 

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Originally Posted by davluri 

A sluff is big enough to knock your ass down, hard, and plow you into a tree or over a cliff, or smash you into rocks. A sluff is big enough to get all my respect. Sometimes you want to link your turns in the fall line an' all, but it is not wise, better to shift your line to one side and let your sluff move through.  Check Shane in one of his matchstick films, not too happy about his tactics with respect to a sluff above screamin' sea-min, that totally ruined his day.

Boney:  An area or zone that has not reached optimum coverage, rocky.  Could be a wind blown ridge or the crux of a chute.  "The east facing bowls are still boney".

Kneewaister:  A Newschooler or Park Rat wannabe type that insists that their waistline is somewhere just above their knees.  (I made this one up, but hoping it catches on).

JF

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Originally Posted by Shaggy2010 



Ok so what word do u think of for the actual wind event or end product thereof?

To add to Davluri's definition of sluff...I believe you are thinking of "spindrift", which is snow in the moving process of being blown in to an area and frequency increases with wind gusts. It can come down the slope in waves as the new surface deposits collect and release from above in a "sluff" or "sluffalanche" . Scary and unnerving when ice climbing. This can deposit in to a slab and release when enough collects to overload whatever it is sitting on. Go watch any really steep lee terrain when the wind picks up after a snowfall to see it in action. 
 

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Originally Posted by davluri 

Sluff more often refers to snow cut loose by a skier in the process of turning, and it usually is limited to the current snow layer.    It usually occurs on steep lines. The size of a sluff varies from a one turn release that slides 20 yards, to a release that propagates more snow as it slides the entire fall line of 50 yards or more.  The term sluff actually does not refer specifically to a wind event or a ridge site, though those are contributing factors in many sluffs. Sluff is defined as distinct from snow that releases naturally of its own weight or tension or is bombed to release, and may consist of several layers of snow, and can technically be called an avalanche. As sluff is often used inter-changeably with avalanche, one or the other word is often misused.

 

Sketch is a term with several meanings: dicy, difficult, barely adequate, on the edge, unsafe or impractical. but also seems to mean cool, good, challenging.

 

Rad is gaining cred, and seems to mean good but with on the edge or pushing the envelope connotations.

When the wind is filling in specific (leeward) terrain features, a vein of wind-buff forms and you can see it as distinct from the over-all firm surface.  Duff is a skier-spray generated vein or border of soft snow I believe.

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Originally Posted by jaytierney 

Sounds like a sluffalanche to me. 
 

 

 

Stephen Colbert would agree..

Sall about the BRO

The deep powder house posted a lot of funny BROisms on there facefuck page last season funniez

the powderwhore television flick, which fuckin killed it imo had a nut busting segment on using BROgaine to get your ski cred up.

alright theres my $.02

now Ill let dalverui get back to playing e avvy guru

unkind....

where did the Om symbol for the Bro ski come from? 

You still give me sh%$ because I suggested 2 years ago that you have no idea of the progression of ski construction and materials that your skis follow, "made with my own two hands...." bro? P needs to slap you aroun' some for using his brand to dis people. 
 

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Originally Posted by skifishbum 

Sall about the BRO

The deep powder house posted a lot of funny BROisms on there facefuck page last season funniez

the powderwhore television flick, which fuckin killed it imo had a nut busting segment on using BROgaine to get your ski cred up.

alright theres my $.02

now Ill let dalverui get back to playing e avvy guru

 

Dude any time my BRO ole splataroni wants me to market his skis to people other than those who are takin the e world super real ceral like Im sure he will just give me an IRL phone call

Like wise with moment and DPS and were hoping to once again carry praxis and pick up on3p for the wasatchpowderskis.com bidness

get your epanties out of a bind and gets  with the brogram brah.

Ps I think there just might be some hot new  pure carbon and highbrid skis comin out this season from variuos companies and hopefully people will be STOKED and to try them dispite what some goofy stoner skibum posts on the Ewebz

Did ya call em yet Dav?

tell em sfb made you butthurtz on the intertubes?

Did ya know splatster I and the FKNA G. O. A. T. the ledgendary saucerboy (rip) all share dec 30th as a birthday.

.Its a cosmics karmas BRO thing

 That shane was sure a jokester

 Been 5 or 6 here in the wasatch that its dumped that day or the night before Ive been skiiin the splatulas splat made in his honor

. Splats a pow magazine og ce and a reno guy so he was afforded the op to meet and hang with Shane

I was not that blessed

but I like to belive when I slarve em out into the white room Shane smile down on me

And thats my stories

BROSEPH

and I got/suggested the fraze FKNA MADE IN THE USA on the skis

and am still buggin him about the saucer boy topsheet splatulas

really like it that that man (P) is honoring Shane and continuing with the spirit of innovation in his skis that Shane brought to the ski industry. totally sick!

I'd call and tell him so, but my butt hurtz 2 much, I have no gripe with you; let's end it here and now, and get stoked for skiing instead.

BROseph Im always STOKED on skiing

Did you see my steezy dawg productions goat fornicate Solitudude viddys? Its gots the pumkins brah I <3 them chi town homies, well before billy got whacky and the od death and then the baseist hottie left.

I forgets what thread I put them in,

but I do remember some babblin bear dissin on my bus drivin r/r pow style

he said i was a backseater too which for the most part i think isnt true cept maybe that final run of a long turn earnin day when my old man ass gets tierd out

and I doubt Ill not take an epoke at someone whether or not I know them IRL

4wiw I had my fingy on the winky but decided to see where youd go w/ it

bro

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Originally Posted by skifishbum 

BROseph Im always STOKED on skiing

Did you see my steezy dawg productions goat fornicate Solitudude viddys? Its gots the pumkins brah I <3 them chi town homies, well before billy got whacky and the od death and then the baseist hottie left.

I forgets what thread I put them in,

but I do remember some babblin bear dissin on my bus drivin r/r pow style

he said i was a backseater too which for the most part i think isnt true cept maybe that final run of a long turn earnin day when my old man ass gets tierd out

and I doubt Ill not take an epoke at someone whether or not I know them IRL

4wiw I had my fingy on the winky but decided to see where youd go w/ it

bro

that was sick video; stoked me out. liked the easy-in-the-fall-line style. LCC ?

No solittudes in the bcc

Im not semi-extream or core enough for the lcc

well that and I dont sit in my car for hours waitin for Liam and the boys to blast the piss out of slide paths

but thats just me.

You know that meany bear that dissed on my kung fu busdriver style?

Is Gnar too 2007ish?

Not with the movie that just came out several months ago...
 

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Is Gnar too 2007ish?

PBR=Alcoholic beverages for mostly underge people that can't afford beer