GD “blue bird day”... most annoying mountain expressions...

**old goat** · 03-11-2020, 04:35 PM

Harvesting corn. Also referring to any wet slop as corn. Corn snow is a very specific thing, not that common, especially in bounds, and it is skied or ridden, not harvested, unless you are filling a beer cooler with it. Also, anyone who takes this thread seriously is annoying. This is not fuck cancer or it's only a dog.

**TBS** · 03-11-2020, 04:40 PM

And JONGs. JONGs are annoying

**Leshphilling77** · 03-11-2020, 04:49 PM

I pretty much hate everything I think

**The SnowShow** · 03-11-2020, 04:59 PM

Shred squad
Lady shred
FOMO
Killed it
Killer crew
Smash stacks
Playful poppers
Sending
Sendy
Brekkie

All so douchechilling

**Jong Lafitte** · 03-11-2020, 05:10 PM

This old dude had some property next to my school and he had a chopped up old bluebird school bus powering a rope tow. He wouldn’t run it except on very nice days. The teachers would let us ski for a few hours on those days so we took to calling them bluebird days on account of the bus.

And I just made that all up. Stop trashing my fake memories!

Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums

**The SnowShow** · 03-11-2020, 05:23 PM

New skis Who Dat

**Ted Striker** · 03-11-2020, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Leshphilling77

I pretty much hate everything I think

I hate everything you think too.

**Core Shot** · 03-11-2020, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Dr.Evil

From Urban dictionary:
Blue Bird Day - An expression often used by out-of-date ski bums and boarders describing an otherwise beautiful, blue and sunny day. The expression is entirely unrelated to spring or to bluebirds.

/end thread

This is the answer op. It’s been said since the birth of resort skiing. Prolly goes back before that.

I would only add that bluebird really means NO CLOUDS AT ALL.
not even a whisp.

At altitude, a no cloud, blue sky is flicking intense. And we call it bluebird.

**mall walker** · 03-11-2020, 05:32 PM

hearing the MTB terms "hero dirt" or "brown pow" makes me want to viciously murder everyone in the area code

"mission" always cracks me up but I've only ever seen it on social media... never heard it in person. I am guilty of "zone" from time to time

**GoldMember** · 03-11-2020, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

"mission"

"Project" - Kinda the same thing with same effect, at least on me.

**#######** · 03-11-2020, 06:06 PM

"We were having a good sesh, with some spicy lines in Wolvie, my fave zone ahhhahhhahhh, but then like we climbed over the next ridge and man was it super techie, no-fall-zone, so my bro set a rap anchor and we had to navigate through some choss up high...It was all time man, no body out there...then we dropped down and spun a few laps on the Kitty before apres at the P-dog, ahahahahahahahhahaha bruh."

**TahoeJ** · 03-11-2020, 06:08 PM

Hero dirt is a very specific thing. I'm fine with it. Brown pow is just dumb.

**Talisman** · 03-11-2020, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

You'd kill yourself if you had to ski Vermont.

I admit to being a spoiled little cold smoke princess. VT has a lot of words for "ice" though like "frozen granular" and "machined groomed" among many others. You Bernie Sanders coasters would scoff at what is called "icy" in MT.

**romeo tango** · 03-11-2020, 06:58 PM

.
talking smack is supposed to piss people off,
glad its working ....

.

**k2skier112** · 03-11-2020, 09:23 PM

slarve

bunch of whiny 1st world problems

**SoVT Joey** · 03-12-2020, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by Talisman

I admit to being a spoiled little cold smoke princess. VT has a lot of words for "ice" though like "frozen granular" and "machined groomed" among many others. You Bernie Sanders coasters would scoff at what is called "icy" in MT.

That’s what pisses me off. Every time Vermont comes up some moron is like “ oh sweet Bernie “ and I have to be like “not sweet, I can do math and I’m educated Bernie bro.”

And ya when I lived in MT people would say ice and I would go looking for it, never found it.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

**danmelon** · 03-12-2020, 06:41 AM

Skinning.

As in hey bro the resort is closed let’s go skinning today.

Thats fucked man

**danmelon** · 03-12-2020, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by SoVT Joey

That’s what pisses me off. Every time Vermont comes up some moron is like “ oh sweet Bernie “ and I have to be like “not sweet, I can do math and I’m educated Bernie bro.”

Wrong thread JONG

**WizardOfRoz** · 03-12-2020, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Striker

At my job 'living the dream' is synonymous with kill me now.

Lol right there with ya.

**Angle Parking** · 03-12-2020, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Dangur

Stoke. I hate this word. It's deeply ingrained around here, but still... they're photos. pics. whatever. Stoke is a verb, and if you are "stoked," you are in urgent need of a fire extinguisher.

This. The words stoke needs to go away.

**XXX-er** · 03-12-2020, 09:03 AM

its also a ski ^^ I've put a lot of miles on

**PNWbrit** · 03-12-2020, 09:31 AM

"rig"

**snojones** · 03-12-2020, 10:24 AM

As to brown pow... I have seen that fall from the sky when a powder storm combined with a dust storm. It made the slope look like a sepia-tone photo. It fell on what was supposed to be the last day of an abbreviated season that was ending because of a lack of snow. Wind, drifted the brown snow into the depressions of ski tracks, making them look like muddy streaks on the sepia-tone snow. In fact, we had our "end of season crew party" that night, bummed that the brown powder would melt the remaining pack even faster than the shitty season already had. The party that night became more of a wake for a prematurely ended season. . Long faces and soon departing crew mates. It was my only real life, "woe in Mudville Day". The party ended early.

In the morning we got up to find there was 14 inches of fresh, light powder on top of that brown snow. You could dig down in the snow pack and actually measure the new fallen snow from the brown layer that clearly laid beneath it. Since the ski area was already closed, the owner let the crew use the lifts all day long. We had our own private ski area and I felt much like Howard Huges (who was the crazy jeff bezos of that day). We got to select the music played on the slope P.A. My girlfriend (who was the area cook) made us a huge feast at the end of the day.

As if that was not enough...It was also the day that I finally learned how to ski pow (this was years prior to the present day, fat ski, skid-o-mania, gear that make pow accessible to anybody with enough money). I had been working on this illusive skill all year and that day it all came together at a great party. That was my graduation day and I have lusted for that kind of pow for the rest of my life ("life lived in a blaze of reality") In fact the new snow also gave us a new lease on the ski season that ended up lasting through Spring Break....

So, sorry... but Brown Powder is a very fond memory for me.