At least 46, according to TotalIceLand. Which language has the most words for snow? According to researchers at the University of Glasgow, the winner is…. They claim that Scots has words for snow. Does it really? The researchers came up with the list while working on a thesaurus for the Scots language. What will decide whether your skiing is good or not is the snow? What this means, more precisely, is a frozen crust that just about carries your skis, but breaks if you have to do anything else, like making a turn.
The best habllek is allegedly found in Utah, in the US. Sometimes people try to explain this wonderful phenomenon as champagne powder, which is a good description, like snow dust, only tastier. You could go three hundred meters on the mountain above the treeline, and when you turned around, the snow was still flurrying around in the air as if it were dust or habllek. It was so fiercely cold that my feet froze to the boots.
And it was a miracle that the old T-bar lift spluttered and started and the hotel manager at the only restaurant in town was heating up mulled wine as fast as he could — even if no one understood what it was. But no one cared, everyone was enjoying this muohta we had never previously encountered. The normal, good powder we ski on is a bit thicker than habllek and is called slievar. After a couple of days, the slievar has been carried off by the wind, disappeared after being skied on, or been transformed into skabrram , those nasty snowdrifts.
Both habllek and slievar are fresh products and need to be consumed straight away, not stored. When spring arrives, we go ski touring. Learn how your comment data is processed. Big In Finland. Search for: Search. Posted in Finnish language , Interesting facts , Lapland. Table of Contents. Next Post. Previous Post. The sami language stays a product of its environment.
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