Tonight I was sitting in the hot tub with my cousins, my aunt and my uncle in Park City Utah. My cousins spent the day skiing at Deer Valley today and working on their moguls. Here's a quick background on them. They have grown up with ski boots on their feet as much as any other foot wear. My 10 year old cousin does backflips on his skis and my 14 year old cousin kicks some serious butt on the bumps. They work for most of the summer on their jumps into a pool that is pumped full of air so that when they come down from their 60 feet of air the water isn't as hard.
So we're sitting there in the hot tub and they are talking about gapers and lemon heads like it's just part of their every day vocabulary. I used to think that I knew a bit about ski lingo but I was wrong. I remember sitting in the gondola at Telluride Co. on my way home talking with a group of walrusses and plankers about pressing the glass for some freshies and watching out for the yard sale maker off of lift 9 but I don't remember gapers and lemon heads. Above is a gaper (so I'm told). Here is a definition for you.
1. gaper
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A gaper is a skiier or snowboarder who is completely clueless. Usually distiungished by their bright colored clothes and a gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helment/hat. Gapers also do the "Gaper Tuck" which is an attempt at being a ski racer by tucking, however, it is done incorrectly with the poles sticking straight up like thunderbolts and lighting, very very frightning! Gapers also sit at the bottom of jumps and try and go big off table tops in the park.
1. My eyes are burning from that gapers bright colored clothes. 2. I fell off the chair laughing at that gaper tuck. 3. Did you just see that gaper getting landed on because he was sitting like a dumbass at the landing of a jump.
So that is a Gaper for all of you who have been wondering. Now for a lemon head. A lemon head is a ski school kid. These are those kids who tend to piss the rest of us right off!!! They are the ones who blow by you backwards so that they can look at you and laugh. They have a ton of layers on from an overprotective mother. These little turds know that they have tons of padding from all of the clothes that they are wearing. These layers are great for them because they can plow directly into a tree and their clothes act as an air bag.
There you go my friends. Now you can throw these terms around when you are around plankers (skiers) knuckle draggers (snow boarders) so that you can trick them into thinking that you're hip (is that out of date?). Happy Holidays to you my friends and may your new year be a magical year that brings you into a closer more intimate relationship with Yeshua.
So we're sitting there in the hot tub and they are talking about gapers and lemon heads like it's just part of their every day vocabulary. I used to think that I knew a bit about ski lingo but I was wrong. I remember sitting in the gondola at Telluride Co. on my way home talking with a group of walrusses and plankers about pressing the glass for some freshies and watching out for the yard sale maker off of lift 9 but I don't remember gapers and lemon heads. Above is a gaper (so I'm told). Here is a definition for you.
1. gaper
306 up, 23 down
A gaper is a skiier or snowboarder who is completely clueless. Usually distiungished by their bright colored clothes and a gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helment/hat. Gapers also do the "Gaper Tuck" which is an attempt at being a ski racer by tucking, however, it is done incorrectly with the poles sticking straight up like thunderbolts and lighting, very very frightning! Gapers also sit at the bottom of jumps and try and go big off table tops in the park.
1. My eyes are burning from that gapers bright colored clothes. 2. I fell off the chair laughing at that gaper tuck. 3. Did you just see that gaper getting landed on because he was sitting like a dumbass at the landing of a jump.
So that is a Gaper for all of you who have been wondering. Now for a lemon head. A lemon head is a ski school kid. These are those kids who tend to piss the rest of us right off!!! They are the ones who blow by you backwards so that they can look at you and laugh. They have a ton of layers on from an overprotective mother. These little turds know that they have tons of padding from all of the clothes that they are wearing. These layers are great for them because they can plow directly into a tree and their clothes act as an air bag.
There you go my friends. Now you can throw these terms around when you are around plankers (skiers) knuckle draggers (snow boarders) so that you can trick them into thinking that you're hip (is that out of date?). Happy Holidays to you my friends and may your new year be a magical year that brings you into a closer more intimate relationship with Yeshua.
