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Tree Skiing and riding is a popular ski related activity for expert skiers and snowboarders seeking less crowded areas and fresh snow.

The SteamboatSki Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado is famous for its tree skiing, as are many other ski hills, including Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada.
Screw all these people out here today, let's duck into the woods and do some tree skiing.
by The Snow Prophet May 13, 2010
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A ski tech describes a person working in a ski shop, turning screws. Ski techs are specially trained in work relating to hard goods such as, skis, ski bindings, ski boots and other technical ski related products.

Ski techs are also skilled at ski tuning, ski boot fitting, ski binding adjustment and ski equipment repairs.
The ski tech at Pepi's Ski Shop sold me a new pair of ski boots and tuned my old skis for a really killer deal.
by The Snow Prophet May 12, 2010
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Ski and snowboard tuning machines are most often referred to by the ski tech as a stone grinder.

Not everyone working in a ski or snowboard shop turning screws can operate a stone grinder.

In the wrong hands, a stone grinder can remove fingers, hands and, (if the ski tech has really long hair) the dude's entire head.
I knew this kid who was turning screws in a snowboard shop and destroyed a new snowboard when the customer handed him a green pass and he let go of the board.

The ski shop owner caught his ski tech pouring dirty bong water into the holding tank of his $85,000 stone grinder.
by The Snow Prophet May 14, 2010
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Ragin at the Basin refers to skiing or snowboarding at Colorado's A-Basin ski area.
Let's go ragin at the Basin and ski the East Wall.
by The Snow Prophet May 17, 2010
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Pronoun: The act of skiing or snowboarding "straight-line and/or letting them run at a high rate of speed.

Starting out on a pair of skis or a snowboard.
Are you ready to go? Then point em and let em run.
by The Snow Prophet May 11, 2010
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Noun: snow prophet, or the snow prophet represents a group of web sites founded by Tim Flanagan, "The SkiProphet", that encompass all things snowsports related including Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding, Nordic Skiing and Nordic Ski Jumping, Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding, Snow Biking, Snowmobiling and everything on the snow...
The Snow Prophet web sites provide a venue for snow sports consumers to express their opinions and views, and openly interact with like minded indivduals free of charge.
by The Snow Prophet May 11, 2010
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Noun: Refers to a individual belonging to a group of skiers that existed beginning in the late 1970's until the early 1990's who were avid backcountry and extreme skiers and ventured into out of bounds ski terrain in search of powder.

The best known group of hairbag'r(s) skied the higher elevations of North West Colorado and explored areas above tree line on extremely steep slopes prone to avalanches.
The hairbag'r joined the gang on top of Bethoud Pass to head into the backcountry.
by The Snow Prophet May 11, 2010
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