| VOC Jargon
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Definition
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| ACC
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Alpine Club of Canada, Alpine Choppers Club, Airborne Climbers of Canada
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| AT
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Alpine touring: refers to backcountry ski equipment where the heels can be locked down for descending.
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| ATES
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Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
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| Beginner Friendly
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In short, a euphemism for a guaranteed epic. Beginner friendly means that the trip is not necesarily easy (in fact it may be quite difficult), but that any people on the trip with actual skills are obligated to be nice to the beginners. When the label 'beginner friendly' is attached to a trip, the usual result is that many keen beginners are attracted to it and experienced people stay away (since they know what beginner friendly actually means). The result is usually a 10:1 beginner ratio which guarantees epic results. See related definitions for "Sufferfest" and "Death March".
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| BCMC
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British Columbia Mountaineering Club, Big Cheap Mountaineering Club
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| CAA
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Canadian Avalanche Association
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| CAC
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Canadian Avalanche Center
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| Clusterfuck
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Also know as "Charlie Foxtrot", commonly used to descriptively generalize any situation with a large scale of disarray.
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| Death March
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To boldly go, usually ill-prepared and without sufficient experience, where nobody in their right mind would even think about going. See also: Beginner Friendly.
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| Faffing
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Wasting time by doing absolutely nothing
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| FMCBC
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Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
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| Gong Show
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An event marred by confusion, ineptitude, and shenanigens. See also: Clusterfuck.
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| Hustlers Handbook
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List of Members with Contact Information
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| Gnar
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Skier's term to define snow condition. Somewhat soft packed powder, heavier, denser than pow.
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| NARSID
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Non Avalanche Related Snow Immersion Death. a.k.a. I've fallen and I can't get up. Most NARSID incidents occur when people fall into a conifer tree well in soft snow conditions.
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| Pow
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Skier's term to define snow condition. Fluffy, loose, dry, deep powder snow.
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| RMOW
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Resort Municipality of Whistler
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| Sea to Sky
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Refers to the region along highway 99 from Horseshoe Bay through Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton to Lillooet.
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| Sketchy
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Sketchy
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| Sufferfest
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Any experience involving considerable suffering. See also: Beginner Friendly.
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| Telemark
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In skiing, telemark is a style of turn where the inside knee is dropped and the heel of the inside foot lifts off the ski. Also refers to skis boots and bindings used for telemark skiing. Telemark equipment does not have the option to fix the heels to the ski in order to allow for telemark turns. Modern telemark boots use plastic shells with a liner, but boots have a flexible bellows across the toe to allow the boot to flex. See Tele School.
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| VOCene
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The VOC's weekly e-newsletter (also posted at the clubroom)
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| VOCJ
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VOC Journal
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