Most Overused/Annoying Skiing Terms

[Bene288]

"Freshies" Sounds like a cereal to me.

 

[farlep99]

Another vote for "pow".

You got light snow, you got heavy snow, you got sticky snow, and you got crusty snow..

edit: If hot chicks who can ski really well elect to use the term "pow", they tend to get a pass. But "pow-pow" would be pushing it.

Hot chicks get a pass on a lot of things!

 

[skiNEwhere]

"narley" somehow this term migrated its way to the mountain

 

[Puck it]

Killington = Fail or anything with fail attached!!!


http://www.killingtonzone.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35819

 

[MadMadWorld]

Agree with virtually everything said so far in this thread re: headwall, dropping in, pow (AWFUL), gnar etc...


I'll add "bluebird day" - it annoys the crap out of me. The only context I've heard it used in is blue skies during skiing. Never heard anyone on the golf course or at the beach say, "well, would ya look at this bluebird day".

Bluebird day is terrible. It screams, "we haven't gotten snow in a loooong time but at least the weather is nice"

 

[dmc]

I love a sweet bluebird day.. Especially after an epic dump...

 

[Newpylong]

most slang, especially anything west coast-sounding, is monstrously annoying.

'MANKY'

DIE

Agreed. I detest that word.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I'm pretty sure there's a mathematical formula whereby the obnoxiousness of the usage of most of these terms increases in linear fashion with age ≥ ~24 years old.

 

[Nick]

Headwall?

What about Tucks

 

[Nick]

Jong

 

[MadMadWorld]

I'm pretty sure there's a mathematical formula whereby the obnoxiousness of the usage of most of these terms increases in linear fashion with age ≥ ~24 years old.

Very true!

 

[MadMadWorld]

Headwall?

What about Tucks

That's why I said marked trail. I think Tuckerman's is the only place in the east that truly has a headwall.

 

[skiNEwhere]

That's why I said marked trail. I think Tuckerman's is the only place in the east that truly has a headwall.

Can ovation kind of count?

 

[bdfreetuna]

"narley" somehow this term migrated its way to the mountain

My bad, I've been working to bring that one back ever since it's peak in 1989.

 

[frozencorn]

Stoked.

End of thread.

 

[dmc]

Agreed. I detest that word.

Still used in the back country as a term for a type of snow...
So keep it in your back pocket...

 

[MadMadWorld]

Can ovation kind of count?

There is no true definition of what a headwall is but if you look at them they have similar features:
- wide open area that is usually on a ridgeline or bowl
- sustained pitch of around 35-40 degrees for the entire length
- have cornices or require some type of technical entrance

With the exception of Tuckerman's I don't think there is any place in the East that meets all 3 of these criteria.

 

[from_the_NEK]

"Mad River Glen snowboard ban"

 

[skiNEwhere]

"Snowmageddon", "Snowpocalypse", or anything to that effect when it is less than 2ft of snow. I was surprised to even here the media here in Denver refer to a storm as "Snowpocalypse" when Denver got 10 inches of snow. Seriously?

 

[spring_mountain_high]

"gondi"

because the extra two letters is just too much effort