From Deseret News archives:
Sicky gnar gnar rules on the pow
When the smoke had cleared, some 70 words and phrases had been submitted, topped by the winning entry, "Chowda," sent in by Alan Miller, who won a couple of ski passes, although no dictionary, for his effort.
Chowda to fall on one's face, causing one to "chow on some powda."
As a public service in the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth, here is a sampling from the rest of the Westminster words (you can see them all at Addictionary.org), along with others submitted by people on the staff at Ski Utah and other local ski/board enthusiasts, most of whom were just fine with remaining anonymous:
You won't find these words in the dictionary, but you will on the hill.
Beater: bad skier.
Biff: to crash.
Blower: really light powder.
Bomb hole: huge crash site.
Case it: to crash hard.
Dank: cool, awesome.
Face shots: powder shots.
Fakie: riding backward.
Flailer: someone who constantly crashes.
Freshies: fresh snow.
Gaper: bad skier.
Gaper gap: patch of exposed forehead between hat/helmet and goggles; derivation of Gaper.
Gaperiffic: lots of Gapers in one place.
Goggle gap: same as Gaper gap.
Garage sale: a bad wreck with poles, goggles, skies and gloves flying in every direction (same as yard sale).
Gnarly: cool, awesome and scary.
Gnar gnar: beyond cool, awesome and scary.
Sicky gnar gnar: super beyond cool, awesome and scary.
Huck: getting air.
In the back seat: a novice skier who's leaning back.
Junk show: person walking through parking lot dragging their coat, losing their gloves, skis going one way, poles another.
Mank: heavy, sun-baked snow.
Noodler: old-school skier who skis straight up and down.
Nuking: snowing hard.
Pow: powder.
Rack it: to hit something hard with your body.
Schralp/schralping: getting after it; skiing/boarding hard.
Schralp the gnar: to shred the pow pow.
Septic: sick powder day.
Shred: to carve with style.
Sick: cool, awesome.
Sketch: iffy, risky.
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