Ski lingo makes everyone sound like a Ninja Turtle: Pizza! French fries! Those foods are lunch fodder, yes—more crucially, they’re the shapes taught to beginners to orient the sticks on their feet. For first-time snowboarders, lesson one sometimes could mean strapping on a pillow to cushion all the bum-first falls. In short, snow sports are a world unto themselves, one that doesn’t always make sense to newbies.
Few sports boast a learning curve as steep, even as millions voluntarily head into the snow to turn gravity into a game. The Pacific Northwest saw more than four million skier and snowboarder visits to official ski areas
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