Smoove: smooth wind-buff pow.

Snowflake: One who shirks all responsibility to ski or ride on a powder day.

"Sorry, dude": how a snowboarder says hello.

Sup: how a snowboarder really says hello.

Still spill: to make it to the bottom of the run successfully and then fall over for no explicable reason.

Switch: skiing backward.

Texas stretch pants: blue jeans.

The kind: really, really good; almost perfect.

Touron: mix between tourist and moron.

Two foot flu: condition that strikes employee/student after it has snowed 2 feet.

Yard sale: see garage sale.

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Knowing the words, though, doesn't cut it unless you know how to string them together. For a good example in walking the walk and talking the talk, I spoke to Katalyn Dalton, a 15-year-old ninth-grader at Treasure Mountain International School in Park City, who explained why she was wearing a neck brace:

"I was skiing in the terrain park, and I hit the down box. It's like a box that's like going downward, slanted downward, and then I did a 270. It's like, say you're skiing straight and it's like pretty much three-fourths of a turn, and one I like didn't land. I landed straight, and you're supposed to land slanted or you'll like fall, and I hit the box and cased it, like really hard. And I laid there for a little bit and got back up and started skiing again, and then I hit this box that's called a C box that's in a shape of a C, and it's slanted and everything. And I was skiing switch, and I also did a 270 onto that one, but when I got to the center of it, my skis slipped and I racked it. I like hit my rib cage, and I got knocked out, and I woke up a little later and the ski patrol was there, and they were being like, 'Well,' and I was like, 'No worries, I'm fine.' But like, they wouldn't let me leave."

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