The
REDictionary
Redefine Your Winter Experience
People often find themselves at a loss for words when it comes to describing their time at RED Mountain. Like, you try and describe your three powder days in a row and realize you’re just making the faces of a constipated baby and resort to schoolyard sound effects like, “pap-pap-pap-vraaaahhhhhhh-ahaha!”
We’ve been trying to describe a one-of-a-kind, fiercely independent shred paradise with generic language that’s had all the life and love wrung out of it by MegaResorts promising Fun! and Freedom! and delivering the opposite wrapped up in glossy brochures and over-priced traffic jams.
After accepting this dumbfounded state, this loss for words, as a natural byproduct of our glorious natural surroundings and uncommonly epic community of characters, we finally wrote our own lexicon: [The REDictionary].
Welcome to our world.
CALMUNITY
noun; portmanteau word; slang; specific to ski region; compare to REDmosphere
SIMPIPHANY
noun; compare to Epiphany; see also Schralp Calculus, Uncomplexification
The exact face-palming moment when a skier from an urban centre accustomed to MegaResort travel, tunnel, bridge, parking…
INDESPONDENT
adjective; see also Calmunity; Simpiphany antonym(s): McSkiing
An initial loss of hope regarding the future of independent ski resorts in an era of pugnacious consolidation…
LODGEPODGE
noun; antonym(s): The Josie Hotel; Slalom Creek
The anarchic decor of many “funky” ski-town lodgings near MegaResorts that show evidence of cheap garage sale replacements…
THIGH-SPEED QUAD
noun; portmanteau word; slang; specific to ski region
A chairlift that actually allows you enough time heading uphill to get some feeling back in your quadriceps, check your texts…
DEJA-EWWW
noun; imitative; see also McSkiing
That strange sensation that you’ve stumbled into an exact replica of your last three largely forgettable ski holidays: same cookie-cutter condos…
INDESPONDENT
adjective; see also Calmunity; Simpiphany antonym(s): McSkiing
SHRED EQUITY
noun; neologism; compare to Sweat Equity
CALMUNITY
noun; portmanteau word; slang; specific to ski region; compare to REDmosphere
SIMPIPHANY
noun; compare to Epiphany; see also Schralp Calculus, Uncomplexification
MOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
noun; see also Esgrape Velocity
ROFL!
acronym; youth internet slang thought to mean “Rafters Or (I’m) #$&^! Leaving!”; viz. ROFL (Rolling On Floor Laughing).
DOPE-SIDE LODGING
noun; see also Slalom Creek; Antonyms LodgePodge, Deja-ewwwww
THIGH-SPEED QUAD
noun; portmanteau word; slang; specific to ski region
MIFFED TICKET
noun; imitative viz. Lift Ticket; see also Deja-ewwww, Mandependent
THE OUTBACK INN
noun; see also E-brake-upuncture, Dirtbag Deluxe Double, HoBros.
ESGRAPE VELOCITY
noun; slang specific to B.C.; see also Mountain of Youth
DEJA-EWWW
noun; imitative; see also McSkiing
HELLATUBBIES
prop. noun; imitative viz. Teletubbies, UK TV show for preschoolers featuring characters with media embedded in their torsos; see also Treethinker
LODGEPODGE
noun; antonym(s): The Josie Hotel; Slalom Creek
TREETHINKER
noun; imitative, viz. Freethinker; see also HellaTubbies, Star Wars Trees;
MANDEPENDENT
adjective; see also Shred Equity; antonym Independent
THE MATE-RIARCHY
noun; imitative per. Matriarchy
T-BORE
noun; see also Nutcracker Sweet, Mountain of Youth, Thigh-speed Quad
