| alpine |
|
ordinary downhill skiing |
| après ski |
|
whatever you do after you ski, e.g. get drunk,
swimming, shopping |
| boot liner |
|
soft stuff in your boots |
| boot shell |
|
hard plastic boot coating |
| boot tree |
|
boot-carrying device |
| bowl skiing |
|
skiing on wide slopes with no trees |
| carve |
|
to turn making a clean arc |
| diagonal stride |
|
going forwards, pushing out diagonally. used in
cross-country skiing |
| dropping |
|
what a snowboarder shouts when he is
'dropping in' to warn others of his presence |
| dropping
in |
|
entering the pipe by means of either
wall |
| drag lift |
|
lift that drags you, rather than carrying you in a
chair |
| edge |
|
metal strip in skis and also verb to push skis into
the snow |
| express chair |
|
high speed chair lift |
| fall line |
|
quickest route down the slope |
| fat skis |
|
bigger than usual skis |
| flat |
|
the flat bottom of the pipe between
the two walls |
| flex |
|
how much the ski bends |
| free riding |
|
snowboarding across any terrain |
| freestyle |
|
snowboarding with fancy maneuvers, e.g. jumps |
| glade |
|
slope with lots of trees |
| get air |
|
to jump in snowboarding |
| heli ski |
|
helicopter skiing, used for accessing pure, powder
nosw high up in the mountains |
| hit |
|
ridge in the snow for jumping- how you 'get air' in
snowboarding |
| lip |
|
the acute angle at which the wall
terminates |
| log slide |
|
log used for sliding in snowboarding |
| micro ski |
|
see 'ski boarding' |
| off-piste |
|
skiing away from marked runs. can be dangerous, e.g.
risk of avalanches, not patrolled |
| parabolic skis |
|
hourglass-shaped micro skis (see 'ski boarding') |
| piste |
|
slope |
| powder |
|
fresh snow |
| run |
|
when a rider completes the full length
of the pipe, linking several 'hits' in the process |
| shell |
|
un-insulated ski jacket |
| ski boarding |
|
skiing using short skis with greater carving ability,
unsuitable for deep snow |
| skierised car |
|
car kitted out for skiers |
| snow blading |
|
see 'ski boarding' |
| snow cat |
|
a car on skis used to get to inaccessible areas |
| snow plough |
|
braking manoeuver, by forming a triangle with your
skis |
| super g |
|
new downhill skiing discipline |
| t-bar |
|
lift that pulls skiers up by a bar |
|
transition |
|
the angle arching between the 'flat'
and the 'vert' of the wall |
| treeline |
|
point at which the trees stop |
| vert |
|
the top section if the wall that is
completely flat |
| walls |
|
the vertical sides to a pipe. These
comprise two elements- the 'transition' and the 'vert' |
| wedge |
|
braking manoeuver |
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