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post #121 of 205
3/9/06 at 9:19pm
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Originally Posted by skierdon
Gapers are those who take snoskates up black diamond lifts, wear shovels and avalanche beacons at a ski hill with a 1000 ft. vertical, ski pocket rockets with their DIN at 3, put the bar down on the lift and fall off the ramp getting off.
I could go on forever.
HUH, when did it become uncool to use a safety bar? what are we, 12???:
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post #122 of 205
3/9/06 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by sjjohnston
I've heard it used to describe one's finish place: i.e. one step, one embarassing step, "above" DNF or DSQ.
I always thought it stood for "Dead Fxxxing Last"
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post #123 of 205
3/9/06 at 9:28pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by SKEEMEISTER
Death Cookies = Hidden rocks under powder usually found in early season.
We use death cookies to describe when nothing but chunks of ice are covering the trail from grooming.

and nobody said
"PC"- paying customer,
Herbs- what SPORES and TOURONS are called at Killington
"Trolling for Trauma" when a patroller cruises through the trauma park or beginner area looking for work.

and Hunter's Bra tree got cleaned up by Management, but another got started further up the quad where it's not so easy to clean up...
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post #124 of 205
3/10/06 at 1:53pm

Auger in

to "auger in": a fall, usually in soft snow or powder, in which the skier hits the ground headfirst, hopefully leaving the upper body below grade but the legs and feet thrashing delightfuly above the snow. Almost as if to screw themselves, headfirst, into the ground.

Touron = 1/2 tourist, 1/2 moron

Freshies= fresh tracks in new snow, preferable light powder

Face shots = fresh tracks in deep powder

Stacheberg = what your moustache looks like after a good, cold day of face shots.

Blower = fresh powder so light, when you blow on it, it moves

Bra tree sighted under the Boneventure quad at Jay Peak. Needs more undies.
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post #125 of 205
3/10/06 at 3:17pm
Snirt=Snowy dirt

We've all seen it and when desperate for one last run in the spring, we've all skied it!
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post #126 of 205
3/10/06 at 7:06pm
Don't know if these came up yet...didn't read every post.

Texpert: Should be self explanatory...especially to those in NM and CO.

Texas tote: Sometimes also known as a "Texas suitcase," it's what happens when one loops the tips and tails of one's rental skis through one's rental pole straps. The resulting rig is carried by holding the middle of the pole shafts.

White smoke: the lightest of all pow...almost too light, as if that were possible.
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post #127 of 205
3/10/06 at 7:16pm
I made one up:

Snownado= When the guns are blowing next to the lift you're riding, you sit through the snownado and get glazed with manmade.
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post #128 of 205
3/10/06 at 7:30pm
Along the lines of the texpert:

Texas Tuck: A "tuck" wherein the person bends 90 degrees at the waist and sticks their poles straight up in the air like little flag poles.

Not really slang per se, but the comment for when the lift stops: damn Texans.

I also don't know if anyone has put this one out there yet:

Speed Bumps: anyone (regardless of equipment) sitting down on a groomed run. I suppose I should clarify, to meet the technical definition they also can't be hurt.

Touri (pronounced with a hard I at the end, like "tour eye"): The plural of tourist. "Breckenridge sure has a large infection of touri this week."

Blood Donor: anyone who skis/rides in short sleeves, shorts or a bikini.

J
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post #129 of 205
3/11/06 at 3:28pm
practicing for the biathlon: skiing and passing gas at the same time
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post #130 of 205
3/11/06 at 7:42pm
Ice Burger: round patch of blue ice protruding through an area of thin cover.
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post #131 of 205
3/11/06 at 9:28pm
knuckle draggers - snowboarders
Sadly...thats it
-JMK
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post #132 of 205
3/23/06 at 10:49am

Try these...

"eat s***" = crash (ski racing)
"paint job" = downhill suit
"pipe trash" = boarders
"skiing the mahogany rail" = bar skiing
"vermont maple turn" = what you do in the trees when you forget how to carve
"kill it" = go crush a race run
"betty up area" = start area venue where racers apply the Cera F and other secret sauces
"squids" = gapers who shin the trees in the glades
"human crayons" = inexperienced racers or skiers
"grow some fangs", "let 'em buck", "get the stick out of your a**" = stop skiing for style points and point 'em down...
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post #133 of 205
3/24/06 at 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by stevesmith7
Bra Tree?
Trophy Tree?

Nope, it's PARTY TREE
Or as it is known in the locker room:

The Conquest Tree
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post #134 of 205
3/25/06 at 9:05am
Then there is "FIGJAM" generally used by those who think they are but usually aren't:

F***
I'm
Good
Just
Ask
Me
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post #135 of 205
3/26/06 at 6:48pm
Crash and burn -big fall
Scud missiles -term heard from staff at Jackson Hole for small rocks
hidden just below the surface (can rip edges off)

Sierra cement - new snow baked by the sun becoming more dense
than 'mashed potatoes' - almost unskiable
Cascade concrete -same but in PNW (OR, WA)
big dump -huge snowstorm.
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post #136 of 205
3/26/06 at 7:36pm
http://www.ridgeview-acres.com/hillrod.htm
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post #137 of 205
3/27/06 at 5:07am
Quote:
Originally Posted by 2-turn
and Hunter's Bra tree ...
A bra tree got started at my home mountain with all of two bras and one string of beads. What's funny is I taught a bunch of German kids this year and they're all giggling on the lift and one kid is trying to point it out but doesn't know the English word for it. So I say, well what's the German word. It's "Büstenhalter" (the "ü" is more like a "oo" sound in English than a "u" sound).

Since you build new words in German by glomming words together, that makes bra tree "Büstenhalterbaum".
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post #138 of 205
3/27/06 at 2:01pm

Chicken Heads

They are the same as "deathcookies" only harder.
When passing someone on a slow traverse I always ask them if they are using "Turtle Wax"
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post #139 of 205
3/27/06 at 3:35pm
Somewhat adequate translation from Russian:

There are three main categories of people on the hill:
alpine skiERS
alpine tannERS
alpine drinkERS
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post #140 of 205
7/12/09 at 1:14am
oh yeah, my favorite subject...this might take a while

Texans = Bubbas (man, the bar was fun except for the bubba factor)
Frenchie = Monoskier (never seen anybody but the French on these)
Cougars = Older ladies who hang out at the bar huntin' for instructors in their 20's, especially those in fur coats
Baby Heads = Death Cookies of a certain size
Brahstafari, Boheme, Damn Hippies = Trustafarian synonyms
TINJ = Trust Income No Job, see Trustafarian
Tilly Boppin' = Monoskier impression on 2 boards
Ski/Board Servicing Tip = Beer, weed
Markering = Ejecting from your Marker Bindings (I markered right out of those)
KIR's (Keepin' It Reals) = Dudes skiing/riding in jeans/hunting one-pieces/etc. etc.
Giggity Tree = Bra Tree
Masterbaters = Master's Ski Racers
Cankles (Boot Fitter Term) = Woman with ankles that go directly into calves with no definition; a pain in the a$$ to fit boots for sometimes.

I'll post more as I remember them...damn safety meetings killed my memory!
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post #141 of 205
7/13/09 at 3:41am
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Originally Posted by ZacMan1987 View Post

SPORE = Spastic Person On Rental Equipment
Gapers in newschool skiing are the people who gape. They watch, but are never actually seen doing anything.
Dozer. A *ahem* well proportioned person who cannot stop.
Tourista + A genuinely Tennesseean term refering to the people who flood our only ski town. They are known for their expensive automobiles, loads of junk in said automoblies, their inability to ski, and their constant bewailing of our horrible conditions. We hate them.


I reckon this sounds like me  :)

This is funny - never knew all the lingo you can get!! Can't ski but have tried. I always envy the kids/ pros flying down the slopes! Oh well practice makes perfect! 

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post #142 of 205
7/13/09 at 7:27am
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Originally Posted by troutman View Post

Don't know if these came up yet...didn't read every post.

Texpert: Should be self explanatory...especially to those in NM and CO.

Texas tote: Sometimes also known as a "Texas suitcase," it's what happens when one loops the tips and tails of one's rental skis through one's rental pole straps. The resulting rig is carried by holding the middle of the pole shafts.

White smoke: the lightest of all pow...almost too light, as if that were possible.

At one point the Texas tote was actually cool. I remember doing it back in the 60s in NH. I didn't even know where Texas was at that time.
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post #143 of 205
7/13/09 at 10:01am
I'm so glad you asked...see "I Don't Make the Fries" in the following:

www.rmmskiracing.org/articles/RMalm-2001-10-DayJob.pdf

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post #144 of 205
7/13/09 at 7:28pm
My own personal slang:

"This much fun shouldn't be legal" - a perfect powder day

"Craptastic" - conditions that are sorta crap, sorta okay, occasionally fantastic.  But you're out skiing with friends and you're having fun anyway. 

"Heinous" - skiing that was fun only after the fact.  You got down in one piece, and that's what's important.

"Truly heinous" - the opposite of fun.   You're being punished for your manifold sins. 
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post #145 of 205
7/13/09 at 9:01pm
Pass the pipe......

Rastafarian for "let's get ..."

Perfectly legal in the Blue Mts. of Jamaica
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post #146 of 205
7/14/09 at 6:27am
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Originally Posted by learn2turn View Post

Quote:
Originally Posted by 2-turn
and Hunter's Bra tree ...
Since you build new words in German by glomming words together, that makes bra tree "Büstenhalterbaum".



GOLD!  I can't wait to point and yell "BOOSTENHALTERBAUM!" the next time I see a panty tree. 
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post #147 of 205
7/14/09 at 7:37am
"Fifty Pound Weight" = Ski School term for Ski Wee Private Lesson.
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post #148 of 205
7/14/09 at 9:40am

dirt chicken n. skier who runs into muddy patches,stopping them immediately, and, in severe cases, ejecting them from their skis into the mud. Skier usually rolls around in mud trying to gather equipment. Found in mid-atlantic resorts during warm spells.

attribution:  from a WV girlboarder
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post #149 of 205
7/14/09 at 11:52am
Park 'n Fly....cheap parking at the airport for travellers....

 

..... or a double binding ejection where your skis stay put and you keep flying along.  Some folks want to see at least a couple of seconds of air time to distinguish Park 'n Fly from a run-of-the-mill yard sale.
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post #150 of 205
7/14/09 at 2:49pm
Powder Flu, a case of the flu that hits quickly in the mornings that does not allow you to go to work when the ski resort has been dumped on.
Rag doll, someone who crashed and is tumbling down the hill.
Starfish, similar to rag doll but the person has their arms and legs completely extended.
Gaper, tourist that is to busy gaping at the scenery to pay attention to what they are doing. They can be as much of a problem driving the roads as they are on the hill.
Rolling up the windows, someone hits a jump and is off balance so they start frantically waving their arms.
Park Rat, a skier or boarder who does not go anywhere but the park.
Fag Bag, one piece ski suit.
Reading the newspaper, typically a racer that puts their hands together at the apex of every turn then spreads them as far apart as possible when in the transition to the next turn.
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