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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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The event resulting when a skier blows out of both ski bindings at the heel pieces in a forward fall.
Shit son, I stuffed my ski tips into that bump and had a double heel ejection.

The powder was so deep, my skis went submarine and I did a double heel ejection.
by The Snow Prophet May 12, 2010
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Snow Safety is the practice of monitoring and controlling snow avalanches for public safety and to protect structures in areas prone to avalanches.

Snow Safety Teams are part of Federal Governmental AgenciesState Governmental Agencies such as State Highway Departments, Ski Resorts, Helicopter Ski Operations, Mountain mining operations and more...

Snow Safety Teams use a variety of methods to stabalize the snowpack and or force it to slide using explosives, ski cutting, boot packing and more...
The Head of Snow Safety for the ski resort decided to close the upper mountain so the trollers could shoot down that avalanche using a Avalauncher. That sucks for us cuz there's 3' feet of fresh pow up top, dude.
by The Snow Prophet May 13, 2010
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A negative response to another skier or snowboarder cutting you off and skiing the line you were getting ready to ride.
That jerk poached my line and tracked-up all that fresh pow just as I was getting ready to drop-in!

Hey, you just poached my line ass-wipe! Find your own line to ski.
by The Snow Prophet May 13, 2010
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A-Basin is the shortened name give to the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado. A-Basin is also known simply as The Basin.

A-Basin is famous for it's long standing years of operation,skiing heritage, high altitude and long ski season. It's most famous ski run is "Pallavicini", shown on the A-Basin trail map as "Pali Main Street".
I'm goin ragin at A-basin, Colorado for a week of snowboarding.
by The Snow Prophet May 12, 2010
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Verb: Refers to the actions of a group of skiers that existed beginning in the late 1970's until the early 1990's and were avid backcountry and extreme skiers who ventured into out of bounds ski terrain in search of powder.

The best known group of hairbag'r(s) skied the upper elevations of North West Colorado and explored areas above timberline on extremely steep slopes prone to avalanches.
We're going hairbag'n today so be sure to bring your avalanche beacon, rescue shovel and avy probe.
by The Snow Prophet May 11, 2010
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