Method
Freeride/touring: snow states; terrain; equipment; safety vocabulary
GLOSSARY
Touring adds its own words — skins, crampons, kick turns, skin tracks — to freeride's terrain and snow vocabulary such as crust, wind-affected snow and terrain traps.
Context and distinction
Each term has its own entry. Knowing the vocabulary does not replace avalanche or mountain training.
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Freeride/touring: snow states; terrain; equipment; safety vocabulary
Splitboard travel includes equipment-mode transitions, uphill traction and route decisions. Model compatibility and track conditions constrain the task. A useful definition identifies terrain, travel stance, body/board relation and source convention. Similar names can describe different mechanisms; conflicting sources remain visible.
Preparation and setting
Use the setting and competence boundary below. This is a page-level learning/application text; use the exact linked movement for reproduction instructions.
Execution / application sequence
- Identify system and manual.
- Rehearse mode changes in a permitted low-consequence setting with instruction.
- Check assembly before travel.
- Learn uphill techniques through local training.
- Retain the exact original label.
- Identify the feature and travel stance.
- Describe the observed mechanics in plain language.
- Compare the attributed definition.
- Link a canonical movement only when equivalence is supported.
- Leave unresolved fields unknown.
Learning and practice
Explain the term using one source-matched existing example and a contrasting near-match.
Errors, limits and corrections
Do not derive mechanics from spelling or merge aliases merely to tidy a list.
Observable checks
The page-specific task, conditions, known components and missing procedure can be explained. Successful application is checked in the actual task, not inferred from reading.
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editorial review notes
Imported from the supplied editorial package; technical and coaching review remains required.