Ocean11 0 Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 They say that the Inuit language has some 40 different words for snow - which must be absolute crap. But we have a good few expressions ourselves. Here are the ones I know; Powder - soft, light, dry snow Crusty powder - same as above but with a hard bit on top Ice - hardened snow with an evil glint Hardpack - hardened snow without an evil glint Groomies - freshly groomed snow Corduroy - as above Sugar - icy flecks of snow Slush - melted snow Moguls - snow formed into perverse, unnatural, unappealing bumps Crud - not sure about this one, but probably covers a multitude of sins Does anybody have a name for the following type of snow? When boarders and skiers have been all over a slope, the snow gets broken up. It's not sugar, and it's not slush, but it behaves a bit like either. It's quite forgiving to ride on, and it gives off satisfying sprays behind you. Could this be 'crud'? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 Will have to think on that one Ocean. So what was the snow like in Myoko then yesterday? Link to post Share on other sites
barok 0 Posted February 3, 2002 Share Posted February 3, 2002 naaah crud is like the daughter of what you are describing Ocean. I would call the broken up stuff chowder, like not quite powder, but still nice and soupy. If you don't like that. you can call it mush or muck or you can just make something up, coin a phrase. After it gets baked in the sun for a day and chopped up even more, that's crud. the stuff that you eat through if you are riding hard an fast and straight on ex-powder. Other words for snow: pow - short for powder freshies - untracked powder, which leads to tracked - [Obvious] untracked - [Also Obvious] cold smoke - weird Western (US) word for powder corn - like sugar soft - [Obvious] hard - [Obvious] windblown - snow that looks like powder, but due to the sun and wind, rides like ice. i know there is more, just gotta sober up. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 4, 2002 Author Share Posted February 4, 2002 The snow at Sugi was crusty powder, powder, and mush. Fair bit of 'windblown' too. For someone who tends to use gelende-side pow for speed control, windblown can come as a nasty surprise. Riding the quad with some people who had come from afar, I was amused to hear them persuading themselves that 'yahhari' the snow quality here was excellent. For a snow country dweller, it was borderline crap. A pretty good day though, and the mushy 4 km run at the end was a blast. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Only 1 word worth uttering: POW! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 "Bob" is a good name. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 5, 2002 Author Share Posted February 5, 2002 Hence "Bobsled". Link to post Share on other sites
Joules 0 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 I believe Ben (from Niseko) refers to the chopped up galssy looking stuff as `sherbert`.....I even have a student who swears a previous teacher from Canada claims that noone calls it Powder, but instead calls it sherbert (but I think she probably got mixed up). But as for the different words, surely they are talking about different words for when its falling! As Ive noticed, snow is NOT snow - you have ice pick snow, tiny snowball snow (arare), fat flake snow, etc! Alright stay cool, Joules Link to post Share on other sites
sore wa 0 Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 Sore wa - yuki Link to post Share on other sites
sore wa 0 Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 Sore wa - yuki Link to post Share on other sites
yogi 0 Posted February 12, 2002 Share Posted February 12, 2002 On the hill: Death cookies: evil hunks of ice kicked of the sides of grooming cats. Slice:Hard and fast ice--skiable only with super sharp edges and technique Falling: Snrain:Mix of snow and rain that instantly freezes onto your goggles. A early season specialty of Whistler/Blackcomb Diamond snow:Sparkling,magical snowfall Link to post Share on other sites
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