Part of the fun of being a skier is becoming familiar with snow in all of its wonderful, and less-than-wonderful forms. The Eskimos are said to have 32 words for snow, or something like that. Skiers must have hundreds! We’ve started a list of names for snow – up to 48 so far.
Can you add any others??
Ball Bearings
Blue Ice
Boilerplate
Bottomless Powder
Breakable Crust
Cascade Concrete
Champagne Powder
Chop
Corduroy
Corn Snow
Crud Snow
Death Cookies
Depth Hoar
Dust On Crust
Flake – thanks to Steve
Frozen Corduroy
Frozen Sunshine – thanks to Samuel
Graupel
Hail
Hoarfrost
Ice
Junk
Man-made
Mashed Potatoes – thanks to Steve
Mogul
Mush
Packed Powder
Pepper – thanks to Steve
Popcorn – thanks to TJ
Powder
Rotten
Rutted
Sastrugi
Sierra Cement
Slop
Slush
Snow – (duh) thanks to Steve
Spring Snow
Styrofoam
Sublimed
Sugar
Sun Cups
Surface Hoar
Tracked
Untracked Powder
Washboard
Wet
White Gold
Wind Packed
Yellow Snow
Contact Mark if you have an addition to the Snow Names list!