Nutcracker Ski Club

The Mammoth Mountain Bikini Run is a critical mass of college students, wearing next to nothing, taking a run from the 11,053 foot summit to the Main Lodge. Weaving between traditionally clad guests, bikini runners come to Mammoth for a good time and to take advantage of the mountain’s seemingly endless snowpack year after year.

The Bikini Run serves as a reminder that Mammoth is starting to ramp up for the spring ski season. Mammoth Mountain plans to remain open through to May 26, weather permitting.
 

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snowriding: (n) A new winter recreation industry term describing the act of either snowboarding or snow skiing down a slope. (Submitted by: Roberta Stjernholm, of Lakewood, Colo.)

In February Ski Utah and Winter at Westminster held a contest, together with on line dictionary, The Addictionary, called the 2008 Ski/Snowboard Lingo Contest. The challenge was to formulate a new catchword that replaces the term “Skiing and Snowboarding”.

First prize was a spring ski trip to Utah, second prize a two lift tickets to The Canyons Resort plus ten t-shirts featuring the best new ski and snowboard werd of 2008.

Runner up words included boardskiing, skoarding and sloping.

Here are some other new terms that might catch on:

gnardonculous: (a) gnarulous and ridonculous. (Submitted by Andrew Howard Johnson, Stamford, Conn.) Gnardonculous is an appropriate synonym for such go-to adjectives as: gnarly, sick, rad and/or ridiculous.

Snowcrastinator: (n) One who puts off work and chores intentionally and habitually in favor of skiing;

Glacialis Obsessivus: (n) frozen obsession;

skidgets: (n) those three to seven year old children you see following their ski instructor that look like skiing “midgets;”

snowgasm: (n) the act of participating in pleasurable snow-related activities such as snowboarding or skiing to the point of achieving the ultimate climax; and

Trip the white Fantastic: (v) To gracefully maneuver through frozen particulate precipitation in a coordinated and/or choreographed fashion.

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If you ever needed a reason for ’starting a family’ whilst on a romantic skiing holiday, then this is a good one.

Researches at Berkley University, California, have concluded that male children have a longer life expectancy if they are born in colder climates. This study was based on the Japanese myth surrounding the Northern Lights, namely that a child conceived while the Aurora are playing overhead would be born under an extremely fortunate sign. This belief has Japanese tourists travelling in hoards to Lapland, and also to the unusual accommodation destination, the glass igloos of Kakslauttanen!

The study based it’s findings  using Scandinavian birth, death and temperature records between 1878 and 1914. Researches concluded that males gestated during colder years survived two weeks longer on average than males gestated in warmer climates.

I’m sure this will entice skiiers to try the bedroom version of the Downhill Slalom more often ;)

 Cheeky!

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I like mindless games and this one is pretty good. In this one you need to move the stick man on his skis and jump over the obstracles.

I’m still trying to figure out how to make the jumps.

Click here to play.

When the game finishes and you want to play again, hit the refresh button to reload the page.

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I spotted this funny story, unfortunately annonymous.

I don’t know what I would have done had either of those people been me!

“A friend just got back from a holiday ski trip to Utah with the kind of story that warms the cockles of anybody’s heart. Conditions were perfect, 12 below, no feeling in the toes, basic numbness all over. The “Tell me when we’re having fun” kind of day.

One of the women in the group complained to her husband that she was in dire need of a restroom. He told her not to worry, that he was sure there was relief at the top of the lift in the form of a powder room for female skiers in distress. He was wrong, of course, and the pain did not go away.

If you’ve ever had nature hit its panic button in you, then you know that a temperature of 12 below zero doesn’t help matters. So with time running out, she weighed her options.

Her husband, picking up on the intensity of the pain, suggested that since she was wearing an all white ski outfit, she should go off in the woods. No one would ever notice, he assured her. The white will provide more than adequate camouflage. So she headed for the tree line, began disrobing and proceeded to do her thing. If you’ve ever parked on the side of a slope, then you know there is a right way and a wrong way to set your skies so you don’t move. Yup, you got it. She had the skies positioned the wrong way.

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