skiing n.— «“Ask my wife,” Ore said. He is famous for driving a doubledecker bus on two wheels—a technique called skiing—for 810 feet, a record featured on the cover of the “Guinness Book of World Records” in 1989.» —“Stunt driving is pay-to...
heli-hiking n.— «To be honest, the first day of your heli-hiking trip, run by a company called Canadian Mountain Holidays, entailed exactly zero hiking, but plenty in the way of massages, therapeutic mineral baths, romantic dinners, poolside drinks...
bootleg trail n.— «No one knows who cut the first bootleg trails. By definition it would have to be after 1937, when the first rope tow was erected on Mt. Mansfield. If charging for a lift lent a certain legitimacy to the sport, it also put...
skiing n.— «Democracy is not an excuse to gorge oneself on alcohol and drugs on Daddy’s credit card (countless posts at LNS reference “skiing” in bar restrooms, a euphemism for snorting cocaine) and then insult everyone who calls you out on it...
hunnert-mile-an-hour tape n.— «The holes they have in them are adequately held together by duct tape, or as we used to call it on the Colorado river, “hunnert-mile-an-hour tape.” And if you run across noisy, obnoxious New Yorkers or Texans, two or...
chicken head n.— «At Jackson Hole watch for “scud missiles” ie tips of jagged rocks flush with the surface that tear up your bases!…Scud missles are also “chicken heads” and “lunar surface.”» —“Re: Skiing Slang Wanted” Usenet: rec.skiing.alpine Apr...