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GLOSSARY OF RIDING & SKIING TERMS

Glossary of Ski Terms
Alpine Skiing Downhill skiing.
Apres-ski The nightlife following a day of skiing.
Base 1. Average depth of snow on the mountain. 2. The bottom of the mountain where the lodge is. Example: Base Lodge
Bunny slope The area where beginners are taught.
Carving Making turns while the edges of your skis or snowboard are cutting into the snow.
Catching an edge When the edge of your ski or snowboard accidentally digs into the snow. Usually resulting in a fall or a near fall. (Happens to the best of them)
Catching some air After riding over a small hill or mogul, your skis or snowboard come off of the ground.
Cruising Making a long run at less than breakneck speed.
Fall line The straightest and steepest line down any slope.
Gaper A person who stops on the slopes to look at the views.
Glade skiing Special trails for skiing through the trees.
Goofy Right foot forward on a snowboard
Granular surface Granules look similar to rock salt, usually formed after a powder snow thaws, re-freezes and crystallizes; or an accumulation of sleet. Loose granular also may characterize surface conditions produced by machine conditioning of frozen granular or icy surfaces.
Head wall The area on top of the mountain where you are just about to come down the slope usually at the start of a black diamond.
Heli-skiing Skiing that can only be reached by helicopter. Not available at Belleayre Mountain.
Mashed potatoes Wet, heavy snow.
Milk run The first run of the day.
Moguls Mounds of snow (aka - bumps)
Off-trails In most cases, they are places that you should not be, such as closed, ungroomed, and unpatrolled slopes. If you are caught skiing or boarding on a closed trail, Ski Patrol will clip your ticket and ask you to leave.
Parabolic skis Shaped or hourglass skis.
Pizza See Snowplow
Powder Light, ungroomed snow.
Schussing Skiing straight downhill, often in a full tuck. (Not usually recommended).
Snowplow Also referred to as wedge. It is one of the first ways we learn to stop. It is when your ski tips are almost touching forming a triangular shape (aka - Pizza). Also the piece of machinery that clears the roads after a snowfall so we can get to the mountain.
Terrain park An area maintained by a resort which is full of jumps and/or a halfpipe, rails, and other obstacles.
Wedge See snowplow.
Yard sale A wipeout fall in which skis, poles, hat, goggles, sunglasses, mittens, and anything else you may have on your person ends up strewn along the mountain side.

 


Holiday Dates
Dec. 22, 2007 -
Jan. 1, 2008*
Jan. 19, - Jan. 21, 2008*
Feb. 16 - Feb. 18, 2008*
*weekend/holiday rates in effect

Customer Appreciation Days
December 14, 2007
February 15, 2008
March 14, 2008
April 11, 2008
$15 Lift Tickets

Potter Brothers Flex Days
January 1, 2008
February 3, 2008
February 24, 2008
March 9 , 2008

Winter Festival Week
January 25, 2008 -
February 1 ,2008
$10 Lift Tickets
Mon.-Fri.

 

 

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