Most Overused/Annoying Skiing Terms

[Cheese]

It's an acronym? That's news to me.

I use (or misuse) it as the acronym (Guaranteed Accident Prone Every Run) and as I stated earlier mostly because they can be a danger to other skiers on the mountain. Everyone starts out as a Noob or Rook and I don't fault them for that. GAPERS are the irresponsible type that have no respect for other mountain guests. They ski above their means and more importantly above their ability to turn and stop to avoid other skiers.

Hearing that others use it just to describe someone who can't wear their goggles correctly does indeed mean it's an overused term.

:beer:

 

[Breakout12]

I use (or misuse) it as the acronym (Guaranteed Accident Prone Every Run) and as I stated earlier mostly because they can be a danger to other skiers on the mountain. Everyone starts out as a Noob or Rook and I don't fault them for that. GAPERS are the irresponsible type that have no respect for other mountain guests. They ski above their means and more importantly above their ability to turn and stop to avoid other skiers.

Hearing that others use it just to describe someone who can't wear their goggles correctly does indeed mean it's an overused term.:beer:

Yes, disrespectful boneheads need to be called out, but Gaper tends to be used for any beginner or part-time recreational skier that doesn't appear to be a world-weary expert, whether or not they are truly dangerous or disrespectful. In fact, G.A.P.E.R. should probably stay, and "Gaper" should go. Your understanding of the definition, albeit a latter-day definition, seems more direct, specific, and warranted.

"Hearing that others use it just to describe someone who can't wear their goggles correctly does indeed mean it's an overused term"

Good point.


:smile:

 

[Glenn]

"Off Piste"

Seriously..WTF...are we in Europe? It's really annoying because some magazines and website now use it and have it as a category for skis.

Here's my take on it for New England: "I just got a new pair of off piste skis!"
Translation: "I just bought a ski that's far too wide and much too rockered for 99% of the skiing we do here. I'll claim I killed it "off piste", but in reality, hate the skis for anything but the one solid powder day I'm out a year...and I'll end up selling them on e-bay to some dude from Utah for half what I paid for them."

I'll second, gaper. It was funny...but now it seems to be lobbed on anyone who isn't out on the hill at least 10 times year...and killing it off piste.

 

[ScottySkis]

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Ski bum just kidding.

 

[Cheese]

Glade

If you can't link more than 6 turns in there, you're just in the woods.

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

burly
super (in place of very)
killing it, crushing it, <whatever'ing> it....
people who call 5 ft drops cliffs

And "played out". The term played out is played out as far as Im concerned!

 

[MadMadWorld]

Yeah I've climbed Central, Yale Gullies and one more to the right of Yale which I'm blanking on the name of atm.. both would be intense to ski. I'm sure somebody has skied the Pinnacle Gully but it would be pretty dangerous considering the ice flow, and insane steepness.

Here's a video I just found of a couple heady brahs skiing Yale. Actually looks like a lot of fun if the snow is soft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwVhUUuhdtw

And here's Central Gully skiing (the guys in this video appear to be in over their heads...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=P5UE_A-bFcI&feature=endscreen

I will go out on a limb and say no one has ever skied Pinnacle Gully. The entire top half is sheer ice and I wouldn't even call it steep....it's simply unskiable. If someone has the guts to just point them and live to tell the tail that person would be my new hero.

 

[MadMadWorld]

burly
super (in place of very)
killing it, crushing it, <whatever'ing> it....
people who call 5 ft drops cliffs

And "played out". The term played out is played out as far as Im concerned!

Yea the whole cliff thing really annoys me too. There are plenty of places off map in this area that have true cliffs but unless you are sending the Waterfall at Stowe, Bird Cage cliff or the waterfall in OG at MRG it's probably just a rock.

 

[jaja111]

...........

Having said all that, I will admit to LMAO when I first read the "Gaper Spirit Animal" thread on another site, but that was more due to the dynamics of the conversation - how the picture and the story merged to reveal the big picture. That, and the guy's lament that he had everything but a screwdriver! Regarding the guy, I had a "live and let live" attitude.

Now the GSA is a hero! He embodied the best in gaper-dom, having begun in way over his head and finished conquering Alaska. He's the transcendence of a gaper. He came, he saw, and he conquered.

It has seemed to me that most who were labeled "gaper", in my experience hearing and using it, came, saw, and remained generally a danger to themselves and others. A gaper is just as unsafe driving a car, using a curling iron, lighting a gas grill, or holding a fork as they are on the snow. Gaper refers to someone who is generally incompetent due to a lack of common sense and it is strongly, heavily frowned upon by myself and friends to ever mock someone humbly learning to ski. We might have all had moments of gaper-dom, but ALL have learned to ski. I have personally been in way over my head, possibly had too much gear on or with me, worn some clothing not suitable to the weather, or whatever that indeed qualified me as a gaper to some degree. However, I have not skied with my jacket wide open while its snowing, not taken out half a lift line playing grab-ass with friends, run into someone skiing drunk, been generally inattentive to traffic around me, claimed I own the mountain, overstated my abilities, or basically acted like a total tool. THAT is a true gaper.

 

[Breakout12]

Now the GSA is a hero! He embodied the best in gaper-dom, having begun in way over his head and finished conquering Alaska. He's the transcendence of a gaper. He came, he saw, and he conquered.

Did he really? Good for him. Even as I was laughing, I was pulling for him. Man, that story had a life of it's own.

 

[BenedictGomez]

The generally accepted reference to gape is having their mouths agape, as in awe, or possibly drooling idiocy.

Yes; the original definition of "gaper" as a ski term etymologically derived from "gape" (to stare with mouth open).

It was someone who stands on a trail for days on end admiring the scenery, or someone at the top of a mogul run looking down in wonder for 39 minutes before taking his/her run. Similar to how we instantly ID a tourist in Manhattan by them staring up at "how tall" the skyscrapers are. Basically someone admiring and "gaping" at the mountain in wonder rather than skiing it.

Yea the whole cliff thing really annoys me too. There are plenty of places off map in this area that have true cliffs but unless you are sending the Waterfall at Stowe, Bird Cage cliff or the waterfall in OG at MRG it's probably just a rock.

Agreed. It probably is just a rock.

If the rocks are physically attached to the terrain, I'll use the word "ledge", which (I hope) gets through the concept that it might only be two or four feet as opposed to an actual cliff.

In other words, I ski over "ledges" on the trail called "The Cliffs" at Plattekill. LOL

 

[Nick]

Huck it brah

 

[St. Bear]

Not a sayin'. But I am so sick of seeing GoPro's on helmets, sticks, and anywhere else.

I'm going to dust this one off.

I saw a few people with GoPro's at Shawnee last week. And I'm not talking about kids in the park, though I did see that. I'm talking multiple older guys cruising the groomers, after 2 inches of snow had fallen over the past 10 days.

 

[MadMadWorld]

I'm going to dust this one off.

I saw a few people with GoPro's at Shawnee last week. And I'm not talking about kids in the park, though I did see that. I'm talking multiple older guys cruising the groomers, after 2 inches of snow had fallen over the past 10 days.

I'll admit it, I have a Contour. I chose it over the GoPro though because I can put it on the side of my helmet instead of on top. Isn't as noticeable. I also pop it off whenever I am not recording because I KNOW that I look like a gaper when I have it on. I have caught a lot of ridiculous and crazy stuff that people wouldn't believe unless they saw it. Hooking it up to a tv at a get together is always entertaining. Most of the time I use it as a tool to show my son what not to do!

 

[Nick]

I'll admit it, I have a Contour. I chose it over the GoPro though because I can put it on the side of my helmet instead of on top. Isn't as noticeable. I also pop it off whenever I am not recording because I KNOW that I look like a gaper when I have it on. I have caught a lot of ridiculous and crazy stuff that people wouldn't believe unless they saw it. Hooking it up to a tv at a get together is always entertaining. Most of the time I use it as a tool to show my son what not to do!

I do the same with my gopro - take it off when I'm not skiing.

 

[bootladder]

Unfortunately "off piste" is annoying this year, because there hasn't really been any (yet...)

 

[spring_mountain_high]

Yes; the original definition of "gaper" as a ski term etymologically derived from "gape" (to stare with mouth open).

It was someone who stands on a trail for days on end admiring the scenery, or someone at the top of a mogul run looking down in wonder for 39 minutes before taking his/her run. Similar to how we instantly ID a tourist in Manhattan by them staring up at "how tall" the skyscrapers are. Basically someone admiring and "gaping" at the mountain in wonder rather than skiing it.

now see i heard it's pronounced "gapper", and it refers to people that ski in jeans, ie they got their ski pants at the gap

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

Huck it brah

Ha exactly.

"Huck It Baby"

 

[snowmonster]

now see i heard it's pronounced "gapper", and it refers to people that ski in jeans, ie they got their ski pants at the gap

Other version I heard is that it's pronounced gapper because it describes people who have that gap between their helmet/hat and goggles.

 

[Newpylong]

The most annoying skiing terms I have heard are on forums like this. Manky, gnar - two of the most annoying ones to me.