lotsoskiing;c-39195 wroteI remember the old newspaper ski condition reports: Excellent, Good to Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor
Fat chance you'd see any reports like that, though even they were rarely believable...anything but Good to Excellent was terrible
That's unfair. Areas that repeatedly reported incorrectly were banned by the likes of Lloyd Lambert and Roxy Rothafel. In the modern world, there is rarely an unskiable day like we had back then - and I've seen many a trail these days that is closed, that would have been considered excellent in a bygone era.
We had this thread back on SJ1.0.
"Snow plow" is still used, certainly among ski patrollers. Ski schools teach the gliding wedge, but the braking wedge is a snowplow!
I haven't heard "schussboomer" in a long time;
"Hot dogging" seems to have fallen off the radar.
More recently, the term "shredder" referring to a rider has disappeared.
"Avalement"; "Gelandesprung" are a few others I can add to the conversation.
