Plucky 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 A great point was brought up by a guy in the ski club I help run today - "If it is heavy, if it's wet, if it's thick - why do they still call it powder?" I didn't have an answer for him. I thought it was a great question. He came up with it after we described skiing some backcountry 'heavy pow' earlier in the day. You have 'powder', you have 'packed powder' (if it's packed, how is it powder?) you have 'heavy powder' which makes no sense either. I know the Eskimos had over 100 words for snow depending on the conditions that snow was in. But when white man translated, all 100 words became 'snow'. I hereby declare, that us here, on this board, should come up with some new names for different snow conditions. Let's make it international this time. I realize there is slang out there for some conditions. In the NW, my friends and I used 'gank' to describe that thick heavy PNW cement crap we usually got. I want to hear what you have. (and today was definately gank). Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 I have no answer, but look forward to the experts coming in on this one: Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Gods magic wonder dust. That pretty much covers all discussions I woul think. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 > "If it is heavy, if it's wet, if it's thick - why do they still call it powder?" Because they're liars. Or wishful thinkers. That sounds like either ex-powder, or something that was never powder at all. It's important to distinguish between deep snow and powder, although the distinction is often not made. You can have 5 cm of powder on top of ice, or half a metre of deep clag. Heavy deep snow that isn't powder can also be fun of course. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by mogski: Gods magic wonder dust. ooi Mogulskier are you stealing my signature there...I will have words.... Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Stealing? Upon consultation with my legal counsol, it is not stealing, nor plaguarism(spell?) if I buy you a beer. Link to post Share on other sites
Plucky 0 Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 so we have 'gank' and 'clag'. I'm serious here people. Ocean, the whole point is it shouldn't be called powder. Slang will be okay for now, but I want some names for some of this shit snow we are getting. C'mon brudder, help this poor soul out. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 UP in the north eh, we call it slop eh. slop is what it is, its like the worst thing you would ever eat but you ski on it. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 I like the sound of clag Link to post Share on other sites
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