Abreviations or Acronyms as Trail Names

joshua_segal

This probably should be a summer thread, but as I passed the entrance to PDF at Mt. Snow last week, I thought this might make a fun list.

PDF, Mt. Snow, VT (Pretty Darn/Damn Fast)

RUOOYM, Whaleback. NH (Are You Out Of Your Mind)

NCC-1701, Crotched Mtn., NH (Naval Construction Contract -1701 - See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701) for details)

What can you add?

DrJeff

Actually, PDF at Mount Snow stands for Peg (Walt Schoekenect’s wife), Dot, Fred (Two of Walt’s close friends), your typed version Joshua is by far and away what most folks think it stands for  

:)]

MrMagic

LOSTBO glades at black mtn New Hampshire I’ll let someone else spell out the what it stands for

mapnut

Squaw Valley’s KT-22, apparently a peak, not a run, was designed to sound like K2, the second-highest mountain in the Himalayas, but stands for 22 Kick Turns, which is supposed to describe how Sandy Poulsen skied down it in the early days."The story of KT-22 begins with a ski trip. While the Squaw Valley Ski Resort was being designed in 1948, Sandy and her husband Wayne were skiing down a steep slope. Her husband was an expert skier, who liked to carve his turns. He urged his wife to do the same. However, Sandy was not so advanced. In fact, she was so terrified of the steep terrain that she traversed into the trees and she made what she thought was a secret kick turn. As it turns out, her turns were not so secret. Her husband was waiting at the bottom of the slope and calmly told her that she had performed 22 kick turns to get to the bottom. The area was named KT-22 for Sandy’s 22 kick turns. The KT-22 high speed quad was installed in 1995."

mapnut

Anybody know what “KA” at Pico stands for?

zapada

FIS, Sugarbush Mt. Ellen (“Frighteningly” Icy Slope)  ;-)

TNT, Bolton Valley (The New Trail)

MrMagic

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>Anybody know what “KA” at Pico stands for?</blockquote>

Karl Acker

rickbolger

LOSTBO IS NOT AN ACRONYM

Just putting that out there before anybody trots out that old fable

MrMagic

So alternative meaning?

newpylong

FYI Whaleback trail is YOOYM (you’re out of your mind) not RUOOYM

rickbolger

Bo was a dog.  Lost.  That’s all.

lotsoskiing

One of my funniest skiing stories, from the Mt. Ellen base lodge (then Glen Ellen):

A guy walks in, covered in snow, wearing jeans (I kid you not) and a Giants jacket. he goes to a table where his friends were. they asked what he had just skied, and he said: “FIS. I don’t know what it stands for but I think it means F@*%er Is Steep!”

Still cracks me up today…

lotsoskiing

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“MrMagic”>So alternative meaning? </blockquote>

Had something to do with Les Otten and an act that would get you jail time in many southern states…

JMaul

A bit of this was discussed here on SJ2.0 back in Feb.

Linky

joshua_segal

I didn’t remember the old thread, but here is a summary of the two threads to date:

NY

Hunter, HBK (Hellgate Broadway Kennedy)

VT

Bolton Valley, TNT (Tri Nitro Toluene), i.e. Dynamite

Killington, FIS (Fédération Internationale de Ski)

Mt. Snow, PDF [Peg (Walt Schoenknecht’s wife), Dot, Fred (Two of Walt’s close friends)]

Pico, K.A. (Karl Acker). Ski racer, ski instructor, and later mgr. of Pico

Smugglers’ Notch , FIS (Fédération Internationale de Ski) (added as per riverc0il’s comment below)

Sugarbush (Mt. Ellen), FIS (Fédération Internationale de Ski)

NH

Attitash, Wilfred’s Gawm (Getting Away With Murder)

Crotched Mtn., NCC-1701, (Naval Construction Contract - 1701)

Crotched Mtn., UFO, (Unidentified Flying Object) added as per tedede’s comment below

Dartmouth Skiway, MBA (Master of Business Administration)

Dartmouth Skiway, MD (Medical Doctor)

Whaleback, YOOYM (You’re Out Of Your Mind)

Waterville XC: HB (Hoober Bloob) Highway (as in Dr. Seuss)

Got more and/or corrections?

lotsoskiing

Dartmouth renamed MBA briefly as Herman’s Highway, but it seems to have gone back to MBA ?

riverc0il

Smuggs has an FIS as well. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of the most popular names for a trail at the most areas along with other generics like “Cruiser”. 

tedede

Crotched:  UFO

bousquet19

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“rickbolger”>LOSTBO IS NOT AN ACRONYM

Just putting that out there before anybody trots out that old fable

:D </blockquote>

Too late.

zapada

VT

Bolton Valley, TNT (Tri Nitro Toluene), i.e. Dynamite

</blockquote>

That’s what you think, but I have it from a veteran Bolton Valley patroller that its name, in fact, stood for The New Trail when it was first cut! Now can anyone guess what the newly named TFR (also at BV) stands for?