The Freaks'
Mostly Accurate
Ski Glossary

• Introduction
• Original Freaktionary
• Terms of Endearment
• Ways to Ride/Tour
• Ways to Suddenly Stop Riding
• Paraphernalia
• Snow Conditions
• Terrain Features
• Avy Country

Ways to Ride/Ways to Tour

Arlberg Technique

noun. The first technique of turning on skis without the use of a rudder, trees or falling. Developed in Arlberg, Austria.

Bust

Adjective. To do whole heartedly.

Boost

Verb. To go airborn with a mostly vertical path of trajectory.

Bonk

Verb. To strike a non H₂O surface (such as a rock, tree or stump) with your board, boards, or inner tube, either strategically, or accidentally.

Cracker Walk

Verb. Trying to walk on you skis when your heels are locked down. Telemarkers turned Alpiners are painfully aware of doing the cracker walk

Dawn Patrol

Verb, noun. To extricate oneself from bed at ungodly hours of the morning in an attempt to bring some life to a mind numbing corporate existence. See also Weekend Warrior.

Dipsy Doodle

Noun. The first skiing technique developed to ski short radius turns in deep powder. Origin: Alta, 1948ish. To travel a zig zagging course, like a screw ball in baseball. Note: those who ski deep hounds powder may be familiar with the term screw ball.

Dusk Patrol

Noun. Slacker version of the Dawn Patrol. Also good for full moon evenings and first dates.

Farming

Verb. Powder conservation technique. Turns are kept close together in order to allow for more, hyper controlled powder skiing. Approach used by guides to corral obedient powder thirsty clients. Farming may also be used as a landscape art form, in which the farming artist creates a wavy, van goghesque pattern on slopes for all to admire... Or laugh at. See Also Spooning.

Huck

Verb. To jump off a preferably large precipice with more concern for the air time than on the inevitable landing and/or impact.

Huck your meat

Verb. A super sized huck with blatant loss of concern over bodily injury.

In the back seat

Adjective. To ski with your butt hanging over the tails of your skis.

jib

Verb. To ride with an emphasis on waiting in line to hit select terrain features.

One n' Done

Noun. A ski tour that involves one ascent and one descent. Converse of yo-yo-ing.

Paramark

Verb. to ski free heel equipment with no intention of ever dropping the knee. Also known as telellel.

Pat the Dog

Verb. To ride a snowboard in fear of removing your hands from the ground. See also Knuckle Dragger.

Poach

Verb. To cut in front of another, riding their line before they can get to it.

Post Hole

verb. to sink up to your knee or deeper in snow. Usually happens when booting up a powdery snowpack, but under extreme snow conditions, can occur with skis on as well.

Snake

verb. Like poaching, but with more strategic buildup. For example, getting others to focus on the natural beauty of the mountains while you quietly take off your skins.

Spooning

Verb. Making turns in powder directly next to another set of turns.

Stick

Verb. To ski a line or land a jump without falling. See also stomp.

stomp

Verb. snowboarder version of stick.

Straight Line (figure 11s)

The ultimate method of skiing that not only reduces the distance between point A and point B, but conserves powder and deters the development of moguls.

Telellel

Verb. When telemark skiers pretend to be on Alpine equipment. See also Paramark.

Eighting, Figure Eighting

Making turns in powder that overlap and mirror an existing set of tracks. A type of farming that optically resembles a stacked column of number 8s.

Yo-Yo-ing

To make multiple laps in the same slope. Phenomonon that often leads to farming.

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