s and their level of difficulty. Snowboarding jargon does both of these things in a short amount of time, one word such as rodeo flip, can mean that a trick is inverted and a 540 degree rotation, all at the same time. This is especially useful when the riding is wack and the weather is so skank that one would rather uncover their mouths from their ski masks only long enough to say two words instead of four. Fortunately, the weather near the top of the mountain wasn't skank at all when Adam made me watch him do his tricks. Instead, the weather was so clear and it was so warm, that I decided to try a session of my own. After a little practice carving in order to make sharp turns, Adam determined that unlike the majority of riders who ride regular footed or with their left foot forward, I rode goofy. This discovery made staying upright much easier, so I made my way to the freshies to try my skills on the steeps. I was stoked at first, but soon found myself being the ridicule of all of the boys because of my sketching along the hillside, going as slow as possible without being at a complete stop and, every once in a while, I was accused of rolling down the windows. This is when I frantically rotated my arms in the air in order to prevent myself from falling. I was most surprised by how many names for falling and wrecking they used. At one point, a friend of Adam's was railing down the freshly groomed snow, or corduroy, and when he fell, Adam shouted out, "He ate it hard!" Yet at the same time, some one else yelled, "He bit the rail!" One of the most interesting terms I heard was when one guy crashed and an unknown rider told us that it was an especially hard wreck, therefore, "He went to Dude's House." When I asked for a more in depth explanation of "going to Dude's House," the rider just told me that the person who wiped out was attempting a, "Hella wizard Nose Grab Air and instead of boning it out, he cratered into the side ...
