Skiing Terminology?

[bvibert]

gobbledy gook.

Awesome, I don't think I've ever seen that phrase typed out. Is that an official term that you learned in engineering school?

 

[poconovfr]

Is it legal to use "gobbledy gook" in the same sentence as "fall line"?

 

[from_the_NEK]

I prefer the term "Off Camber Fall Line", although the gobbledy gooky "Double Fall Line" rolls off the tongue easier.

 

[poconovfr]

I prefer the term "Off Camber Fall Line", although the gobbledy gooky "Double Fall Line" rolls off the tongue easier.

I'm sure there's a law against this.:lol:

 

[ctenidae]

I prefer the more colloquial "Tree Magnet."




I just made that up.

 

[SkiDork]

The fall line is the direction you would slide if you fell.

With a double fall line, its the path you would take if you drank a bunch of Bloody Mary's

fixed it for ya...

 

[poconovfr]

Now that's funny.

 

[Skimaine]

Bullet proof = boiler plate

 

[skiing is life]

can someone please define the following for me?

a butter 180
a JONG
dunno if this is ski realted but: 123
something tells me this isnt ski related tho: FKNA
snow snakes
cornice

 

[KevinF]

Double fall line. Can there really be such a thing. I mean the fall line is going straight down. I guess the double fall line could be if you are at the top of the hill and can go off the back side and the front side. That would be a double fall line.

What we all refer to as a double fall line is trail that is cut across the fall line. Should it be called a cross line? Or a cloth line?

Well, as one friend of mine states -- there really is no such thing as a double fall line. Put the proverbial ball at some point on a double-fall line trail again and again, and it will keep going in the same direction. There's really only one fall-line on a double fall-line trail; it's just that the fall-line isn't going where you would like it to.

 

[KevinF]

a butter 180

Well, a "butter" is getting onto the tips of your skis (i.e., tails completely off the ground). I'm guessing the "180" part means spinning around on the tips of your skis

a JONG

Jack Off Newbie Gaper

dunno if this is ski realted but: 123

Never heard of it

something tells me this isnt ski related tho: FKNA

Well, the skiing part of it probably came from Hot Dog: The Movie where one of the characters memorably says "what the fkna is a Chinese Downhill?".

snow snakes

Those invisible little critters that live in the snow that reach up and grab ahold of you occassionally causing you to fall for no apparent reason.

cornice

It's basically a "lip" of snow that forms from the wind. They can be pretty high; 10, 15 feet at times. You'll find them a lot at the entrance to the wide-open bowls out west. It's quite the rush to jump off one. There's a picture of one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornice_(climbing)