Description
Ski Messages:
- It’s all downhill from here.
- I’m at my happy place.
- Powder to the People!
- I like skiing and maybe two people.
- The mountains are calling and I must go.
- Up to snow good!
Skiing is pure magic
Let’s start with the obvious: the skiing itself.
We’ve yet to sprout wings and fly, but when skiing down a trail with fresh powder below and more floating down from above, it is as close to truly flying as we can imagine. When the powder is just right, you hardly hear anything else around you beyond the sound of your skis slightly slicing below you. Everything is calm and still as you are soaring down a trail with the wind in your face.
Even on days when the powder isn’t falling, skiing is magical in another way.
Blue sky days allow you to take in the majesty of the mountains around you and see for miles and miles. Although it’s true that there is some work involved with skiing when you are gliding and taking it all in, you’re sometimes just floating in a reality all your own with hardly any effort required.
The experience is both exhilarating and peaceful at the same time.
What could be better than a fresh coat of powdery snow for that perfect run down a monstrous mountain?
Vocabulary
Thank you Red Bull for these definitions!
Since skiers also tend to use this language even when they’re not in the mountains, it’s useful to know at least some of the basics of the dialect. Below are just a few examples from the skier’s dictionary.
Steeze
A combination of the words ‘style’ and ‘ease’ used to describe effortless elegance on the slopes. Most commonly attached to freestyle skiers and backcountry powder hounds.
“Candide’s double backflip over that cable car was so steezy, man”
“No doubt. He’s the steeze king.”
Not to be confused with other words which sound similar, like ‘breezy’, ‘wheezy’, or ‘lemon-squeezy’. If you’re talking to a skier and they said something that sounds like one of these words, it was probably just ‘steezy’. Trust us, it’s a real word.
Pow
(Not to be confused with: POW, the comic book noise Batman makes when he punches people.)
Butter
“I’m getting quite bitter because I can’t butter better.”
Not to be confused with: Chutney, margarine, butter, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter or any other spreadable edible. You can’t eat these butters. Though they do look so sweet.
Gnarly
“Look at that skier! That line is totally gnarly.”
“Especially in gnarly weather like this.”
“Oh no! He’s taken a gnarly crash.”
“Gnarly, dude.”
“Totally. I’ve got to head off, dude. Stay gnarly.”
Jib
To ride your skis across anything that isn’t snow. If you hit a rail, a box or even grind a tree, you’re jibbing. The wider definition of jibbing can also include some fun or playful tricks on snow, too. Butters, for example, would be included in jibbing.
“I spent all day jibbing in the backcountry, bro. It was most bodacious.”
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a last incentive:
Do skiers have nice butts?
A survey of 2,000 people, carried out by Chill Factore, claims that skiers have the best butts of any profession.
See also our Snowmobile Thrill pop up card.
