Dictionary
This Glossary is provided to help guests understand more about the rental of inns, resorts and vacation rentals. It is not comprehensive but serves as a primer for terms guests may encounter in renting specialty lodging. Not all terms apply to all properties or managers.
Blue Bird
A beautiful day. e.g. "Cuttin' the pow pow on a blue bird day."
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Blue Square
Blue squares are the color and symbol used to mark intermediate ski trails.
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Boarskii
This word is Snowboarding and Skiing in one. My friend and I made it up since she skiis and we had to combine the words so we could go, "Boarskiing" together.
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Bomb Hole
A big hole in the landing of a powder jump from somebody bailing. "If you make a bomb hole on the landing of that jump, everybody will hate you.'
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Boned Out
used to explain the emphasis of style in a trick. if someone "boned out a indy" they would grab hard and create an emphasis of the maneuver such that his/her legs may appear extended or stretched to a maximum degree. or the style of the indy was more.
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Bonking
Hitting an object really, really hard with your Snowboard.
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Bono
Riding/Skiing into a tree at high speed and not by choice.
Or
To hit a tree going real fast not purposely
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Bonus Life
When you smoke the competitors in a competition.
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Boomph
It's what is said when you fall in the thick stuff, because "Boomph" is the sound that is made.
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Boost
A term used to describe catching air off of a jump. e.g. "He boosted ten feet out of the halfpipe."
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Booter
This refers to a massive kicker that needs to be hit down harder to insane air, thus requiring a harder kick than a kicker. "Oh man that thing is huge, it's definitely a booter."
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Botwoker
A term used to describe a new boarder who can't stay upright
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Bowling Pins
Skiers, or sometimes boarders, who are making an obstruction of themselves. Typically skiers who stop in a group blocking the track, most often on a flat spot or at the top of an incline a boarder will need to keep speed up to get over (where it is most annoying). Can also be slow skiers carving together in such a way that you can't pass them.
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BP
Boarder Patrol
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Brick
When someone hits a kicker and their snowboard comes out from underneath them and they land on there back. (derived from kids in the east coast)
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Bro
If you don't know someone's name on the mountain you call them bro
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Broadway
A word that means really cool or good e.g. that trick was so Broadway. Same as words like sick,rad.
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Buffer wax
A colder grip wax applied over a warmer grip wax, or klister, to prevent the skis from balling up, and yet retain grip.
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Bumps
Moguls, also called Bumps, are humps or mounds of Snow which are developed when skiers perform turns on the same slope. They can increase in number, as well as in size, as skiers make turns around and over them. If an area on the slope becomes packed with Bumps, that section is named as a Mogul field. Bump Skiing may be a major problem to most skiers. But if you approach it correctly and you know the techniques that will suit what Moguls offer, you will be surprised that in the world of the various advanced skiing conditions, Mogul Skiing is one of the easiest to master. In this section, take a look at some of the important points you must consider if you decide to go Bump Skiing.
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Bunk
When something is wack. Mostly when the pipe or best run is closed EX: "Dude, the pipe is closed? That's Bunk!"
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