If a trick is done in a smooth, cool and clean fashion it could be described as being steezy or that the rider landed the trick with steez. To land a trick in a super clean and cool fashion. For skiing this means backwards along the skis, for snowboarding it means you ride the board with the opposite foot forward of how you normally ride.
Hybrid between Cross Country and Alpine skiing. The boot heel can still be detached from the ski and does not restrict the skier to simply downhill skiing or cross country skiing. Arguably the safest way to descend a steep slope- skiing in traverse fashion is typically zig-zagging your way down a piece of steep terrain as opposed to going straight down.
This allows you to control your speed. Much alike sledging but faster and there are often dedicated tubing slopes so you can go as fast as you like within a controlled environment. Used on the base of the skis and snowboards to keep them extra smooth and so they can glide and slide over the snow smoothly.
The resort may stay open for experienced skiers in these conditions but many lifts that access the more challenging pistes may be closed. Quick guide to A-Z Glossary of ski slang and trail talk. Avalanche: A mass of snow, rock and ice falling down the side of a mountain at high speeds. B Backcountry: Refers to an area outside of the resort boundaries.
Basket: The round or star shaped piece of plastic on the bottom of your ski pole. Berm: A bank of snow or sometimes much higher that builds up along the edges of the pistes. Binding: What you clip your ski boots into that holds them to the skis or snowboard. Black: See: Quick guide to Blue bird: Slang for extremely pleasant weather characterised by clear blue skies.
Bowl: A land feature that is often tackled by the more experienced skiers and boarders. Brain Bucket: A slang term for a helmet. C Cable Car: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! Carving: A series of clean turns using the edges of skis or snowboard.
Chair lift: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! Chute: Another natural landscape shape that skiers and boarders love to tackle- a chute is a sleep and narrow gully surrounded by high sides. Cornice: An overhang of snow that can be seen on roofs, tips of mountains, edges of the piste.
Crevasse: A very deep, and usually hidden crack or crater in a glacier. Crust: A type of snow. D Death Cookies: Cookie sized chunks of ice sometimes more like boulders that are created by the piste bashers and grooming processes.
Downhill skiing: See Alpine skiing Drag lift: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! E Edge: The sharp metal edge along the outside of your skis or snowboard. Funicular Railway: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! G Giant Slalom: See Slalom Glacier: The frozen mass of ice and snow that sits on top of many mountains is often accessible to ski on into the summer months.
Gondola: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! Green: See: Quick guide to piste and slope classification coming soon! H Halfpipe: Another feature that appeals to freestyle skiers is the halfpipe. Hardpack: See Packed powder. Heliskiing: A form of backcountry touring: helicopter-assisted skiing is often quite an expensive adventure but well worth the while! L Lift pass: Your ticket to access the resort and lifts. M Magic Carpet: A conveyor-belt surface lift like the ones found in airport terminals usually found at the nursery slopes to help beginner skiers up the slope.
Mashed Potatoes: Another slang name for snow. Moguls: Humps and bumps carved into the snow, typically created by many skiers skiing over an area and whipping up the snow into these characteristic bumps, but sometimes they are deliberately created by piste groomers.
N Nordic Skiing: See: Cross-country skiing. Nursery slopes: Slopes dedicated for beginners and those who are having skiing and snowboarding lessons. O Off-piste: Refers to leaving the marked trails in the resort and going off-trail. Out-of-bounds: Forbidden areas. P Packed powder: Relatively fresh snow that is densely packed.
Parallel turning: The art of making a smooth and elegant turn without positioning your skis at an acute or right angle. Park: Freestyle park. Park Rat: A skier or snowboarder that spends all of their time in the snow park. Planker: Slang for skier. Poma lift: See: Quick guide to lifts and modes of transport coming soon! Powder: Fresh, untouched snow that can be very deep and very soft!
R , which is dedicated Shane McConkey, a brilliant skier who lost his life doing what he loves. Term used to describe jumps and tricks — basically messing around. Can be used as an adjective, verb, or noun. Term used for jumps in a snow park. These are usually labelled in accordance with the piste markers ranging from green smaller ones for beginners to black larger gapped ones for more advances freestyle rides.
The lift operators who stand by the lifts in rain or shine helping novices on and off the chairlifts and making sure that day by day we are able to get to our favourite peaks and slide down in safety. They are also the first point of contact in case of emergency. Your route of descent, usually used when freeriding see definition of freeride above. Skiers and boarders alike take huge pleasure in planning their line.
This is particularly important in relation to staying safe during a backcountry descent, which, without proper planning or picking your line puts skiers more at risk to huge crevices and fatally dangerous terrain.
Those guys in oversized pants and hoodies relentlessly lapping the park throwing impressive or not so impressive tricks off various features. Refers to fresh untouched snow. Love the powpow? That person who seeks out the best powder runs and is forever hunting new, untouched snow whatever the conditions. Slang term for anything extremely positive. And is, in some friendship groups, completely overused.
Want a rad jacket? Check out our ski outfits to rent. To ride. More often than not, they're easily identified by their unstylish wardrobe selections. Trail maintenance when new snow is added and bumps are smoothed over. Tractors aka snowcats rake the snow and form the corduroy lines. A skier or boarder who rides on rails, boxes, and other features.
They are also referred to as park rats. What a snowboarder does when they lean over on a hard carve or turn and touch the snow with their hand. When snowboarders "huck" themselves off the "knuckle" of the big air landing before touching down. Another way to say jibber. They're ski junkies, of sorts. So good luck trying to get a park rat to do or say anything else other than skiing.
When a boarder falls face down and their legs, along with their board, flip up in the air. These are brutal to witness, and even more so to experience. One who lives and breathes skiing. Most of the time, they avoid anything that isn't skiing and this means work, too. Danger zone. It's an area of loose snow that sits at the base of a tree that's surround by deep snow.
It can be dangerous and sometimes fatal to skiers and boarders who fall into them. Measurement taken when the powder is overflowing like crazy. But honestly, is there really a thing as too much powder? We think not. If a skier or boarder has a major fall that causes them to lose their skis, gloves, hat, or poles, it's referred to as a yard sale.
So, what do you think?
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