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Types or Names for snow

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skipatrol40s Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Apr 29, 2002 Posts: 1479 Location:	Posted: Mar 01, 2008 - 11:25 PM GMT A few of my favorite snow types: Graupel - one of my favorites Rime Cornice Killer Faceted Snow

WoodCore Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jan 13, 2002 Posts: 3134 Location:CT	Posted: Mar 02, 2008 - 12:09 AM GMT Edited: Mar 02, 2008 - 12:10 AM GMT Graupel rules!!!!!! __________ "Freedom often leads, but responsibility always follows close behind."

Bill29 Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 2414 Location:	Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 2:01 PM GMT New England loud powdah

ski la douche Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jan 06, 2008 Posts: 245 Location:canada bien sur!	Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 12:52 AM GMT Poudreuse. Neige de printemps. Seattle cement. __________ j'aime les ballons et les grands tetons

photogf128 Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 2605 Location:MRV Vermont	Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 1:00 AM GMT Edited: Mar 06, 2008 - 1:01 AM GMT corduroy __________ facebook.com/profile.php?id=1454198707#!/pages/American-Photoart-Gallery/90884206988

ThatNYguy Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Sep 08, 2001 Posts: 1748 Location:Circling near Albany, NY	Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 1:15 AM GMT Edited: Mar 06, 2008 - 3:07 AM GMT Pisgah

Bill29 Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 2414 Location:	Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 1:36 PM GMT Edited: Mar 06, 2008 - 1:49 PM GMT Quote: "Pisgah" Nice, NYguy. You get the gold. With the thaw and rain this week, and more hot weather and heavy rain predicted for Saturday, we in Central Mass. are calling snow "mostly gone," at least in the woods and fields. A picture of Brian's driveway would be kind of sad right now, I suspect. Next week is supposed to be colder. The good news is that the snowmaking ponds around here must be full so areas that want good cover for the Easter week have plenty of water to make snow.

phatcat Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 66 Location:Vertmont	Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 3:32 PM GMT If you can ski over it. Its fun to me. __________

joshua segal Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 5943 Location:NH	Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 1:01 AM GMT Bump - as a result of the "Skiing Grammar" Thread, I thought it might be worth resurrecting this thread! __________ Joshua Segal

skierpilot Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 632 Location:	Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 2:13 AM GMT How about variable conditions ? Watch out when you see that one!

drsmooth Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jan 08, 2010 Posts: 136 Location:	Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 7:34 AM GMT Edited: Jan 03, 2012 - 7:44 AM GMT Crashed Ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4os2ufb5EuE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvFNJVWUFas Years before this event you could do this at many Western New York ski areas (until grooming was the nightly standard). From top to bottom provided you picked your line properly. We used to joke that you could bring skates and still use 60% of the terrain.

joshua segal Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 5943 Location:NH	Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 12:33 AM GMT Edited: Jan 07, 2012 - 1:24 AM GMT An 2012 updated version of the list: Granular: - Frozen granular --- ice --- blue ice --- boilerplate --- New England Hardpack/New England Loud --- hardpack --- porcelain snow - Loose granular - Sugar Granular - Machine-groomed granular - Death Cookies (a.k.a. golf balls) - wet granular - glacial - Chickenheads: (frozen dendrites on otherwise blue ice) Powder - Cold Smoke - cold loose powder - Packed powder - Bottomless powder - Champaign Powder - Chop Crust - Windblown - Breakable Rain or thaw issues - Liquid snow (or liquid sunshine) - Mashed Potatoes - corn - crud - slush - Sierra Cement, Seattle Cement or just: cement - wet granular - Spring Snow Related to Snow Grooming: - Corduroy - Frozuroy (groomed while wet that freezes into ridges) Weather/Meteorological description - dry - wet - sleet -- freezing rain -- pellets - flurries - Graupel - lake effect snow - Rime (also: Hoar Frost) Generic - old snow - new snow Man Made - Machine made - Artificial snow - Silk or Styrofoam (recently-made snow, soft and dry, yet smooth surface) - Crushed ice None Water Based "snow" - various styrofoam and plastic devices Non-descript: - Variable conditions Questions: What are the following suggested by posters? - Cornice Snow - Killer Faceted Snow Got more? __________ Joshua Segal

nelsap Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Nov 21, 2001 Posts: 3649 Location:Saratoga Springs, NY	Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 12:57 AM GMT Can't forget pogonips! JD __________ Jeremy Davis

joshua segal Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 12, 2004 Posts: 5943 Location:NH	Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 1:25 AM GMT Quote: Can't forget pogonips! JD And what, pray tell, are pogonips? __________ Joshua Segal

nelsap Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Nov 21, 2001 Posts: 3649 Location:Saratoga Springs, NY	Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 1:38 AM GMT Pogonips are ice crystals that form from fog, settle out and do accumulate to a dusting. I've seen it at Lyndon State while in college on a few of those insane -35F mornings. Pogonips JD __________ Jeremy Davis

frozen forever Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Aug 04, 2004 Posts: 130 Location:Schenectady, NY	Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 5:08 AM GMT I've heard New England Hardpack/Ice also called 'New England Packed Powder.' __________ Is it wrong to pray in the direction of Mad River Glen?

rogerjack Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 918 Location:	Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 12:47 PM GMT "Death Cookies" are what is left after a big cat rides over a trail and it freezes immediately. You see it more out west when you have the wide swings day to night in temps. Early morning death cookies are no fun!!! There are many foreign words like piste, nevada and shnee.

mapnut Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 31, 2002 Posts: 5062 Location:New York City	Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 1:41 PM GMT Edited: Jan 11, 2012 - 1:41 PM GMT What are nevada and shnee?

Bill29 Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Dec 19, 2002 Posts: 2414 Location:	Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 2:08 PM GMT Quote: "I've heard New England Hardpack/Ice also called 'New England Packed Powder.'" Actually, to repeat myself from 2008, it's called 'New England loud powdah.'

telemechanic Profile \| Galleries Rank: Member Since: Jul 24, 2004 Posts: 412 Location:North Woodstock, NH	Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 2:18 PM GMT Mung Very wet man made snow for base.

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