Ski Slang. The language of the sweet cherry pow pow.

Dec. 16, 2009 - PRLog -- When enough people do something for a long enough period of time it's inevitable that a certain language evolves around the activity.  Skiing is a good example where most of us learn in our first lesson to do a snowplow.  I simple way to stop or slow yourself down going downhill.  When we fail to remember the snowplow we're allowed to learn a whole new set of words like buttslide, ragdoll, and screaming starfish.  In case you're wondering those are various ways of describing the way we fall, crash and smash into things.  And some of those things are truly memorable.
   If you take a flier after hitting some rocks protruding from the snow you've found some chocolate chips.  And yes, there really are snow cookies.  They're small chunks of hard snow that have frozen into the powder.  Larger chunks of frozen slush protruding like razors are frozen chicken heads.  Hmmm, there's a certain attitude here.  Maybe it's the result of too many face plants on the snow farm.
   Oh, and if you come across a day of fresh powder snow it's not powder it's pow.  If you come across a stretch of pow that no one has skied, well that's where the phrase sweet cherry pow pow comes from.  If you love wallowing in the deep, white stuff while you ski you're a powder pig.  This is much better than skiing in wet, heavy, clumpy mashed potato-like snow commonly referred to as crud.
   But it's not just about the snow, it's about the people two-planking it down the slopes.
For those of us that still forget how to stop we often fall and lose our gloves, hat and goggles.  That's called a yard sale.  Do all of that and lose your ski's or snowboard too and you've got a garage sale.  Do it all on your face and you've got a face plant.  All things considered I'd rather do the butt plant.  But, If you butt plant and keep going that's a butt slide.  
   While skiers have done an admirable job of developing much of this language, the snowboarders seem to have found new extremes.  Consider this exchange overheard just recently:
   RIDER:  "Did you see that dude get krunked on that snowmine?"                                                      
   GRUM:  "Yeah, that's the same raptor who packed that snow bank into a squirrel's nest."          
   RIDER:  "Yeah, rollin' down the windows all the way man."
   GRUM:  "What a muffin scorcher."
   In case you're wondering here's the translation:
   RIDER:  "Did you see that guy get knocked out when he hit that rock under the snow?"                                                        
   GRUM:  "That's the same guy who went down the hill with his arms out like a bird before he fell into the deep snow of that snow bank."
   RIDER:  "Yeah, he was waving his arms in the air the whole way."
   GRUM:  "And then he rode down the rest on his butt."
   Not to be outdone, skiers have joined the fray.  If you fall and your head gets stuck in the snow and you can't get out, most of your friends will call you a thumb tack before they grab your skis and pull you out.  Of course if they decide to all stand around and the bottom of the hill and laugh about your splat there will be many people at the top of the hill wondering why so many people are in the way.  This will result in them calling you vermin or if they decide to ski through your group bowling pins or roadkill.  If that happens you might just want to hope they still remember that snow plow.
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