 Poster: A snowHead
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We researched ages ago the myth/not myth of Inuit having 50 / 90 / 120 words for snow and idly freezing in the always-cold Nationale chair in Crans-M, the Grom and I came up with the English lexicon:
Sample Inuit
qanuk: ‘snowflake’
kaneq: ‘frost’
kanevvluk: ‘fine snow’
qanikcaq: ‘snow on ground’
muruaneq: ‘soft deep snow’
nutaryuk: ‘fresh snow’
pirta: ‘blizzard’
qengaruk: ‘snow bank’
Us
Snow
Frost
Hoarfrost
Fresh
Powder
Champagne powder
Blizzard
Crud
Sluff / slough
Windrift
Spindrift
Plumes
Graupel
Crystal
Faceted
Boilerplate
Corduroy
Loose
Piled
Sticky
Dry
Slush
Sleet
Snowmaggedon
Drifting
Horizontal
Snowflake
Perfect
Slop
Brown
Yellow
Melting
32 so far.
Any others?
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 7-04-22 18:33; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How long have you got?
- Sastrugi
- wet
- snowball snow (eg wet)
- coastal (eg wet)
- white smoke (eg not wet at all)
- bottomless
- schmoo
- mashed potatoes
- slabby
- upside down (when the top bit is heavier than the stuff underneath)
- windslab
- breakable crust
- set up
- lift accessed
- wind lip
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@philwig, excellent …
That makes 49
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I guess also
Cornice(d)
Virgin
Tracked
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Porridge
Poor man’s powder
Scottish weather
Death cookie
Poo hole
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Babyheads
Cat litter
F*cked
Sunf*cked
Windf*cked
Totally f*cked
GnarGnarBrah
Mank
Crusty mank
Death crust
Glass
Polished
Slide for lifey
Spicey
Challenging
Isothermic
Rotten
Totally rotten
Piss wet
Corn
Wet corn
Corn on the turn
Just right
Overcooked
Dirty
Brown
Organic (mainly cow pats)
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Pennine (grass with some frost) well known to members of Weadale, Yad Moss etc.
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DOTM - profane but almost all valid. We’ve had ‘brown’. All too familiar this year.
Chris n - excellent - and nicely ironic
I raise you ‘deathballs’
Also
Variable
Stash
Promised
Predicted
Thin
Poor
Ribbon or river of
Artificial (goodness why did I not think of that earlier?)
Last year’s
Patch
Neve
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Well you don’t get this kind of nonsense in the SCGB…
(Said a senior official)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Decomposing
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Pam don’t talk to people like that…it’s rude
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Boilerplate.
Refrozen melt.
White ribbon of death.
Blue snow.
Sugary.
Velcro.
Feeble thin whiteish dust.
Italian cream.
Indifferently pisteured.
Negligently Pisteured.
Saharan orange.
Perfect slush.
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You know it makes sense.
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Squeaky 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Whoomfy (best avoided)
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Poster: A snowHead
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Derivatives of sticky:
Like glue (from the French comme colle (sp?)).
Alpaka carpet (specific to Tignes).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tongue-in-cheek list, c/o http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html ... well I found it amusing 
Inuit Words for Snow
| tla | ordinary snow
| | tlapa | powder snow
| | tlacringit | snow that is crusted on the surface
| | kayi | drifting snow
| | tlapat | still snow
| | klin | remembered snow
| | naklin | forgotten snow
| | tlamo | snow that falls in large wet flakes
| | tlatim | snow that falls in small flakes
| | tlaslo | snow that falls slowly
| | tlapinti | snow that falls quickly
| | kripya | snow that has melted and refrozen
| | tliyel | snow that has been marked by wolves
| | tliyelin | snow that has been marked by Eskimos
| | blotla | blowing snow
| | pactla | snow that has been packed down
| | hiryla | snow in beards
| | wa-ter | melted snow
| | tlayinq | snow mixed with mud
| | quinaya | snow mixed with Husky poo-poo
| | quinyaya | snow mixed with the poo-poo of a lead dog
| | slimtla | snow that is crusted on top but soft underneath
| | kriplyana | snow that looks blue in the early morning
| | puntla | a mouthful of snow because you fibbed
| | allatla | baked snow
| | fritla | fried snow
| | gristla | deep fried snow
| | MacTla | snow burgers
| | jatla | snow between your fingers or toes, or in groin-folds
| | dinliltla | little balls of snow that cling to Husky fur
| | sulitlana | green snow
| | mentlana | pink snow
| | tidtla | snow used for cleaning
| | ertla | snow used by Eskimo teenagers for exquisite erotic rituals
| | kriyantli | snow bricks
| | hahatla | small packages of snow given as gag gifts
| | semtla | partially melted snow
| | ontla | snow on objects
| | intla | snow that has drifted indoors
| | shlim | slush
| | warintla | snow used to make Eskimo daiquiris
| | mextla | snow used to make Eskimo Margaritas
| | penstla | the idea of snow
| | mortla | snow mounded on dead bodies
| | ylaipi | tomorrow's snow
| | nylaipin | the snows of yesteryear ("neiges d'antan")
| | pritla | our children's snow
| | nootlin | snow that doesn't stick
| | rotlana | quickly accumulating snow
| | skriniya | snow that never reaches the ground
| | bluwid | snow that's shaken down from objects in the wind
| | tlanid | snow that's shaken down and then mixes with sky-falling snow
| | ever-tla | a spirit made from mashed fermented snow, popular among Eskimo men
| | talini | snow angels
| | priyakli | snow that looks like it's falling upward
| | chiup | snow that makes halos
| | blontla | snow that's shaken off in the mudroom
| | tlalman | snow sold to German tourists
| | tlalam | snow sold to American tourists
| | tlanip | snow sold to Japanese tourists
| | protla | snow packed around caribou meat
| | attla | snow that as it falls seems to create nice pictures in the air
| | sotla | snow sparkling with sunlight
| | tlun | snow sparkling with moonlight
| | astrila | snow sparkling with starlight
| | clim | snow sparkling with flashlight or headlight
| | tlapi | summer snow
| | krikaya | snow mixed with breath
| | ashtla | expected snow that's wagered on (depth, size of flakes)
| | huantla | special snow rolled into "snow reefers" and smoked by wild Eskimo youth
| | tla-na-na | snow mixed with the sound of old rock and roll from a portable radio
| | depptla | a small snowball, preserved in Lucite, that had been handled by Johnny Depp
| | trinkyi | first snow of the year
| | tronkyin | last snow of the year
| | shiya | snow at dawn
| | katiyana | night snow
| | tlinro | snow vapor
| | nyik | snow with flakes of widely varying size
| | ragnitla | two snowfalls at once, creating moire patterns
| | akitla | snow falling on water
| | privtla | snow melting in the spring rain
| | chahatlin | snow that makes a sizzling sound as it falls on water
| | hootlin | snow that makes a hissing sound as the individual flakes brush
| | geltla | snow dollars
| | briktla | good building snow
| | striktla | snow that's no good for building
| | erolinyat | snow drifts containing the imprint of crazy lovers
| | chachat | swirling snow that drives you nuts
| | krotla | snow that blinds you
| | tlarin | snow that can be sculpted into the delicate corsages Eskimo girls pin to their whale parkas at prom time
| | motla | snow in the mouth
| | sotla | snow in the south
| | maxtla | snow that hides the whole village
| | tlayopi | snow drifts you fall into and die
| | truyi | avalanche of snow
| | tlapripta | snow that burns your scalp and eyelids
| | carpitla | snow glazed with ice
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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De la soupe
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@geoffers, that is quite wonderful!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hero
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- Avalanche. As in debris you have to ride over.
- Fast
- Pisted. As in "I paid for a helicopter, but this stuff is skier pisted".
- Garbage - general term for stuff not worth riding
- Unridable
- Rained on
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I don't think I saw "styrofoam", aka "cooler" (1" thick breakable crust)
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Slushpuppy
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Corrugated...
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Corn snow which has been plentiful in Grimentz-Zinal this week. BTW in some places (ie Canada) Eskimo is no longer used but Inuit, as used by @Valais2 is.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Spring
Transformed
Dusting
Washboard
Blue ice
Polystyrene balls
Industriel
Agricole
Freezing rain
Windblown
Sunbaked
Dumping
Drifting
Reset
Concrete
Hollow
Stable
Unstable
Erm...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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What's the name for the way it is after a couple of days of foehn, when skier tracks stand out like railway lines above the lower, uncompressed, surroundings which have been eroded by the wind - off piste, that is?
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croutons : the hard, blobby bits post-avalanche. Best to be avoided.
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You know it makes sense.
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You lot seem to be having difficulty with the difference between noun and adjective
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| pam w wrote: |
| What's the name for the way it is after a couple of days of foehn, when skier tracks stand out like railway lines above the lower, uncompressed, surroundings which have been eroded by the wind - off piste, that is? |
Ooh that's a good one Pam - no idea!
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Poster: A snowHead
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oh, I like squeaky!
Yellow?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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oops, sorry, Yellow already mentioned!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'll chuck in spindrift, chop, and dendex
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Are we nearly there yet???
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Earlier this season I was skiing the lovely carving blue from the bottom of Tortin down to Siviez. It was that lovely snow that is slightly melted on top and then partially but not entirely refrozen. I call it corrugated because it has a little tiny grippy ridges from all the tracks.
But the extraordinary thing was that it made my skis whistle. I wasn’t even sure what it was at first but then realised that it was coming from me. I’m not sure what the appropriate snow noun would be. Perhaps Pan Pipes?
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