 Poster: A snowHead
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Let's not dip into the Eskimo dictionary - we'd never stop. Here's a few skiers' terms, posted on the Skiing Magazine website (admittedly with a give-away American dialect):
Powder, fluff, cream, meringue, graupel, corduroy, mashed potatoes, corn, death cookies, death mank, freshies, styrofoam, windbuff, oatmeal, velvet, champagne, boilerplate, slab, slough, glaze, rime, crud, downy pillows, life-giving nectar, Rocky Mountain love dust.
What, in heaven's name, is "graupel"?
How about some utterly British snow words? "Crispy heather" is a phrase I know from Scotland.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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White stuff
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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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Some more phrases from Scotland: Ice, Crud and Slush.
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I like 'Maiden Form' as a term for an extended field of gently undulating moguls.
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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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Wow, they have 'slush' in Scotland now? That's global warmimg for U!
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graupel is the riming of a snow crystal. sounds painful to me.
porridge ?
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"Bwrw Eira" is what is said up here in North Wales
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Interestingly they've listed "meringue" but not "crust". This seems a bit pretentious to me. There's a critical distinction between 'crust' and 'breakable crust', but you'd feel a right prat telling a ski companion "I don't like this breakable meringue."
I wonder if they call it 'Pavlova', or 'Breakable Pavlova' on the Australian and New Zealand hills?
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How about some truly British words "associated" with snow ?
Country grinds to a halt ?
I mean come on what is the wrong kind of snow ?? the only wrong kinda snow I know of is Yellow snow 
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Let's have some more snow words, then. I like the puddings theme. 'Sorbet' should be there, or Haagen Dazs for those pistes you share with a very special friend.
Maybe 'fromage frais' for gloopy wet new snow.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If they are to be utterly British, shouldn't they involve understatement. Such as 'slightly slippery' for a sheet of blue ice
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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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How about using "dicey" to describe a sheet of blue ice
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I like dicey. How about 'bit sticky' for extreme porridge.
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You know it makes sense.
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Nope, I prefer "Stickski"
i.e "as the afternoon wore on the strong sun caused problems with a lot of Stickski on the southfacing slopes"
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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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Slowplough. So, to combine your excellent word 'dicey' with its context, the full exclamation is:
"Sheet, this slope is really dicey."
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Poster: A snowHead
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With me I find it goes! Sh*t this slope is really.aaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghh!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lets make some up: sherbert; cumulous; powderpuff; blotting paper; death slide; slurry. Hence "had to pick up some speed to make it through the heavy cumulous back there...".
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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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Having recently come back from the Gorm, another term definitely in use should be ROCK! We also came across some GRAVEL (thank god they weren't my skis).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Maybe all snow should be called 'Peter', in honour of the excitable arm-waving swingometer fanatic who does our election broadcasts.
I mean, wouldn't you love to have Peter Snow on your ski holiday? His pole plants must be brilliant.
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Good one David:!:
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Mark - don't tell me you've seen the video! We're still waiting. Lorraine away for the week so at least that long to go. 
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Here in the Cascade Mountains we have the lovely "Cascade Concrete"
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That sounds like a variation on 'Sierra cement'
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