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This protection company provides gear not just for winter enthusiasts but avid cyclists as well. As they saying goes, protection is a "piece of cake"!
POC
Used as the back drop in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", this resort offers the longest ski season in North America often going into the late summer months, conditions permmiting...
Timberline Lodge
This action moves a limb away from the centerline of the body.
Abduction
This is an overhanging accumulation of ice and wind-blown snow, characteristically found on the edge of a ridge or cliff face.
Cornice
Though unaware of her DIN Setting, this GOAT found herself in 2nd place in the Alpine Combined event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Mikaela Shiffrin
This ski manufacturer is the winningest brand in FIS competition, sponsoring famed athletes such as Vonn, Svindal, and Gut, but is also known for its rackets and paddles.
Head
¡¡DOBLE DIARIO!!
This ski area holds the world record for the largest amount of snowfall in a single season, with a grand total of 2,986cm. That's almost 100 feet for you gringos out there!
This is the inward reaction force from the snow against the edged skis or board that forces the skier/rider into a curved path.
Centripetal Force
They form as ice crystals fall through supercooled cloud droplets, which are below freezing but remain a liquid. The cloud droplets then freeze to the crystals, forming this lumpy mass.
Graupel
Known to most as the "Hermanaitor", this Austrian racer finished 2nd in Super G at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.
Hermann Maier
Headquartered in Italy, this company goes beyond Firebirds and Anomalies. Rollerblades, Moon Boots, and Dobermanns you bet!
Tecnica
This mountain is home to the most visited alpine event each year featuring races run on the infamous Streif, Streifalm, and Ganslernhang which overlook the quaint town of Kitzbühel.
Hahnenkamm
This is the fictitious or apparent outward inertial force felt by the skier or rider during a dynamic turn.
Centrifugal Force
This pattern of shallow, bowl-shaped hollows form during intense sunshine and warm weather spells.
Sun Cups
Finishing 2nd in Downhill at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Games, this US racer shares a name with a common game played with infants and toddlers.
Picabo Street
Crack open a Red Bull when you slap on a pair of these sticks! This Austrian company is the brain child of the most winningest male racer in modern times.
Van Deer
This ski region boasts the largest skiable area in the world with 600km of slopes and over 160 lifts linked together by runs.
Les 3 Vallées
¡¡DOBLE DIARIO!!
These 4 ligaments connect the thigh bone to the lower leg. Name all 4 ligaments in their fullest form.
When wind erodes or deposits snow in irregular grooves and ridges, this formation often resembles waves on a large body of water.
Sastrugi
This Canadien Mogul Skier finished 2nd in not one, not two, but three Winter Olympics (most recently 2026 in Milano-Cortina), but remains the most decorated Freestyle World Champion male in competition history.
Mikaël Kingsbury
Bond girls are forever, and this brand (now owned by Rossignol) took their marketing to the extreme just to sell their shiny blue shoes.
Lange
At almost 6000 vertical feet, or 1828.8 meters, of skiing/riding, this resort offers the largest vertical drop of anywhere else in North America.
Revelstoke
This rotational movement rolls the ankle outward so that weight rests on the outer edge of the foot.
Supination
This formation is characterized as a tall, thin, closely spaced pinnacles of hardened snow ranging in height from a few centimeters to a few meters.
Penitents
Sharing her home with profe Igor, this retired racer finished 2nd in Giant Slalom during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games.
Tina Maze