chicken head n.— «Golf-ball sized chunks of frozen snow on a trail are often referred to as death cookies in the East; Westerners tend to call them chicken heads.» —“Finding Uniformity in the Lexicon of Snow” by Barbara...
slack pack v.— «Slack pack—v. walking without the heavy pack; having someone drive the hiker to and from the trail heads.» —“Glossary Of Hiker Terms” by Norma Jean DeVico Times (Trenton, New Jersey) Sept...
railbanking n.— «The rail trail movement started as a grassroots effort in the 1960s but really picked up steam with the amendment of the National Trail Systems Act in 1983 to allow a process called “railbanking” to begin...
bike whacking
v.— «Traveling off trail with your bike (bike whacking).» —“Midnight Rush” TrailBlazer Adventure Racing Club Aug. 1, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
dinosaur wine n.— «WD-40 contains petroleum distillates, PERIOD. No fish oil, no anise, no diddly. Just well-processed “dinosaur wine.”» —“Re: WD-40 and Fish?” by Tom Fry in Trail, British...
glading n.— «The [Forest Service review] refers to this ski trail construction by the euphemism “glading” but the runs would be the functional equivalent of permanent strip clearcuts.» —“Sliver of land halts Burnt...