 Poster: A snowHead
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There's quite a lot of snow specific jargon on here that I really don't understand (I'm just not with it!). So I thought I'd start a thread where we can ask for clarification...
I'll start off by asking what is meant by 'couloir' in a skiing sense, I know it is the French word for corridor...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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queen bodecia, I take it to mean a narrow chute, generally steep with rocky sides.
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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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A steep narrow chute with rocky sides? Sounds terrifying. I assume this is something people might encounter off-piste. They're welcome to it! LOL!
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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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Thanks Yoda. The term 'corridor' makes perfect sense now. Far more frightening than anything I'd ever contemplate. Fair play to yas...
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More for the Glossary perhaps?
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queen bodecia, check it out here.
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arv, found it now. It were way off the bottom of my page...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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GrahamN, is Couloir Banane so called because it's full of monkeys ? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Yoda, it probably has to do with yellow snow. 
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As well as a corridor, "couloir" is French for a gully.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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can someone explan to me exactly what is meant by a 'roller'?
Being a skiier, I wouldn't know what one of these was.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Christopher, a ridge across the piste.
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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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Yoda, not necessarily, but that guy first in the picture did have a disgustingly yellow one-piece  .
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| Christopher wrote: |
can someone explan to me exactly what is meant by a 'roller'?
Being a skiier, I wouldn't know what one of these was. |
A point where the piste steepens appreciably, so that anybody travelling straight down the fall line at speed will launch into the air off it. But it steepens in a curve rather than over a straight edge.
Most of the jumps you see downhill racers taking are off rollers.
It is a term used just as much by skiers as by boarders.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Being a skiier, I wouldn't know what one of these was.
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I also read a lot about "winter tyres" - what are they 
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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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Now, now, Boris. Play nice 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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My current fave is "coral reef".
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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roller.. small ridge
couloir.. large wide piste that has tiny ridges at either side where the piste basher has shoved some snow
massive air.. a total lie about a tiny wibble when your mate wernt looking..
massive session .. the one where you turn up late after a shower and dinner to meet your mates who still have ski gear on from 3 pm and try to claim tour hero by staying up till 10 pm..
carving.. hahaha oh please.. skid off!!!
jib off something.. er total ballcocks about spending 30 minutes stuck on a ledge until someone else comes past and you follow them
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