SKahn's definitions

earn your turns

To skin up a mountain to be able to ski down it. AT and Tele gear are the main forms of travel (some split boards). It is a degrading phrase to resort skiers.

Back-country skier "when are you choads going to earn your turns?"
Resort Gaper "I got no problem letting a lift carry my fat ass up a mountain"

by SKahn June 2, 2008