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Also called a cable car. A class of cable-based transport for snow sports where skiers and snowboarders are carried uphill aboard chairs, cars, cabins, or gondolas suspended from a cable in the air, as opposed to surface lifts, where they remain on the ground. aerial skiing A sub-discipline of freestyle skiing and a competitive Winter Olympic event in which participants ski off of 2–4-metre ...
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. ... Glossary of skiing and snowboarding terms;
Skiing-based: Backcountry skiing, freeriding, ski-BASE jumping, ... Glossary of climbing terms This page was last edited on 30 October 2024, at 21:32 ...
What is a cork in snowboarding or a goofy stance, McTwist or 1080? Here are snowboarding terms, snowboarding lingo and snowboarding slang explained.
Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) [1] is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis.
The word ski comes from the Old Norse word skíð which means "cleft wood", [1] "stick of wood" or "ski". [2] In Old Norse common phrases describing skiing were fara á skíðum (to travel, move fast on skis), renna (to move swiftly) and skríða á skíðum (to stride on skis). [3]
A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
They are called skins because they resemble sealskin, from which the first ski skins were made. [1] They are typically made from nylon or mohair or a combination thereof, and are designed to let the ski slide forward on snow but not backward. [2] [3] They are usually narrower than the ski to allow the ski edges to get a grip. Some ski resorts ...