Chapter 3: Snow/Terrain/Conditionsīackcountry: Any area where you go snowboarding that isn’t at the resort. Goofy: Snowboarders who ride with their right foot forward. Regular: Snowboarders who ride with their left foot forward. Liftie: The lift operators who work at the resorts. Park Rat: Someone who spends nearly all of their time in the terrain park. Powder Hound: A rider who lives for fresh snow and is always on the hunt for powder and lots of it. ![]() It involves riders racing simultaneously down a course that has turns, jumps, and other features. Often refers to a well-executed turn on a technical slope.įreeride: A style of snowboarding that involves challenging and technical terrain with a focus on big-mountain and backcountry lines.įreestyle: The type of riding done in the terrain park and any sort of snowboarding emphasizing tricks, whether that’s in the air or on natural and manufactured features.īoardercross: A popular freestyle competition that is now an Olympic event. This could be a snowboard bum or board bum, and the bum name is also used in many other sports.Īll-Mountain – A versatile style of riding and snowboarding equipment that blends elements of all styles, including freeriding, freestyle, and powder.Ĭarve: A sweeping turn that occurs when you are riding. Snow Bum: Someone who lives, eats, breathes, and sleeps for the snow. Grom: A young kid or child on a snowboard. Shredder: An experienced rider who has excellent abilities and displays advanced-level skills. Noob/Newbie: Any new snowboarder who obviously hasn’t developed a lot of skills in the snow. You can have an awesome session in the park or a killer pow session. Session: A way to classify a specific section of your daily riding. Sometimes used as a derogatory term by jealous skiers. It can mean amazing, awesome, fantastic, unreal, or any other term that captures a truly, seriously magical moment on the mountain. It translates into fresh snow and lots of it.Ĭrew: A group of friends who you ride with or want to ride with.Įpic: Another common term with a broad definition. Pow: Otherwise known as powder or even pow pow, this is the stuff snowboarder’s dreams are made of. If you almost went off an unexpected cliff, also gnarly. If you had a great run, you could call it gnarly. ![]() Gnarly: A common term used to describe all things good, bad, and ugly relating to riding. It can apply to other extreme sports as well.ĭump: The act of snowing, typically said when it is really coming down or when you ask the winter weather gods for a gift. Stoke: A general description of the feeling one experiences when snowboarding. If you are having fun, you are shredding. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter what type of terrain or conditions you are in. In addition, Sallie Mae®’s owner/operator may be regulated by governmental entities and laws that are different than those that regulate Community Bank.Rider: A snowboarder – it doesn’t matter what style or ability level, we all ride. We encourage you to consult the privacy disclosures on any linked site for further information, as their privacy and security policies may differ from Community Bank. Additionally the privacy policy for Community Bank does not apply to linked websites. Community Bank is providing a link to Sallie Mae®’s website as a convenience and does not necessarily control the content on their site beyond this point. Community Bank neither expresses nor implies any responsibility for such agreements or transactions. All transactions and agreements on the Sallie Mae® website are solely negotiated between you (the Community Bank website visitor) and Sallie Mae®. We are directing you to Sallie Mae®, another website not owned or operated by Community Bank.īy clicking “Proceed” below, you acknowledge and agree to the following: Community Bank does not provide, and is not responsible for the products, services, or overall website content available from Sallie Mae®.
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