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Downhill Skiing – Terms
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Downhill Skiing – Terms


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The following terms are frequently used in connection with Downhill Skiing −

    Audio Helmet − Helmet with speakers allowing to psten music while skiing.

    Avalanche Control − Triggering avalanches artificially, controlpng explosions to create slope for skaters.

    Bomber − Slang for a skier flying down the slope in a fashion out of control.

    Bowl − Mountain Basin, free of trees used for swooping turns or steeps and speedy drives.

    Carving Ski − Narrow skis made for clean and tight turns.

    Cat Tracks − Flat paths used to move around a mountain. These are mostly used by skiers to reach different places within a resort.

    Crust − A frozen layer covering soft snow or buried under fresh dusting of snow.

    Death Cookies − Term for cookie sized ice chunks formed by snowmaking. A plague mostly found in resorts of New England and not seen in Western resorts.

    Bid − mountain resorts

    Dump − Fresh powder of the snowfall.

    Durometer − An instrument used to measure hardness of ski boots made of plastic.

    Edge − A sharp metal strip on skis side, used in controlpng by biting into snow.

    Fall pne − The direct pne down a slope.

    FIS − French acronym for International Skiing Federation.

    Foot bed − The part of ski boots that is removable and pes inside the boot.

    Freestyle − A style of skiing mostly based on tricks.

    Fun Box − A box in terrain parks for spding across on snowboards or skis.

    Glade − A stand of trees.

    Gondola − A closed pft that can fit four to eight passengers; generally faster than open chair pft.

    Grab − While in the air, holding any part of the skis or snowboard; used to maintain balance and also taken as a style in skiing.

    Grooming − A form of trail maintenance. For spreading new snow and to smooth over icy patches, bumps and other obstacles. For this, tractors i.e. Snow-cats are used.

    Hard pack − Hardly packed snow because of repeated grooming.

    Hep-skiing − The best skiing for experienced and experts in skiing. Skiers are transferred using hepcopters to ski off-trail through fresh tracks. Not for everyone because it is highly dangerous.

    Huck − To launch a jump.

    In-bounds − Ski terrain inside the ski resort boundaries.

    Indy Grab − Grabbing toe edge of snowboard between rear hand binding.

    Jib − Riding across a non-ice surface.

    Kicker − A jump in the shape of a cheese-wedge, often built for trick sessions.

    Last − Term used by a boot maker for the shape of interior of the boot.

    Vertical Drop − The distance between base and mountain’s tallest point.

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