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#51 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:41 pm

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#52 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:41 pm

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#53 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:41 pm

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#54 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:42 pm

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#55 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:42 pm

I have no idea about gumby but I will take a miseducated guess......when one flies out of a raft and fails to grab the chickenline....appendages are going in very different directions....quickly.
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#56 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:43 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:I have no idea about gumby but I will take a miseducated guess......when one flies out of a raft and fails to grab the chickenline....appendages are going in very different directions....quickly.
A Most Excellent guess. A gumby is an inexperienced climber.
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#57 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:45 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:appellation

BTW, definitions will appear below after everybody has a chance to guess what the words mean.

I dint know this one.
This is a wine term identifying the locale where the grapes for a specific wine were cultivated.

I think California doesn't have to worry about Colorado wines yet. Give us a few more years.
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#58 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:47 pm

A Most Excellent guess. A gumby is an inexperienced climber.

Ohhhhh, I must confess to being a gumby, but not in Colorado. But I'm still alive after a harrowing layback.
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#59 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:47 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:barn door
This is another climbing term, where you're in a precarious position and lose your hand and foot holds on one side, you swing away from the rock just like an old barn door.
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#60 Post by kayrharris » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:50 pm

I knew appellation...but I guess at 12:30AM my time, the brain shuts down.
I was trying to tie it specifically to Colorado.
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#61 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:50 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:bonk
Blowing up, hitting the wall, or otherwise just running out of steam mid-ride on one of Colorado's incredible biking trails.
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#62 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:51 pm

kayrharris wrote:I knew appellation...but I guess at 12:30AM my time, the brain shuts down.
I was trying to tie it specifically to Colorado.
There's another wine term in here that I'm sure you know.

I think whoever wrote this glossary was just trying to fill out and grid and maybe get a few people thinking about Colorado wines. As I said, I don't think California has anything to worry about. Yet.
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#63 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:52 pm

Blowing up, hitting the wall, or otherwise just running out of steam mid-ride on one of Colorado's incredible biking trails
I thought that was when the piano man makes his delivery.....onto your back. Actually I can bonk just riding to campus.
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#64 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:53 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:chickheads
Back to rock climbing, these are knobby granite features with excellent handholds.
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#65 Post by Bored Sweeper » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:53 pm

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#66 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:54 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:golddigger
This is referring to the folks who made the Colorado gold rush happen.
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#67 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:55 pm

Bored Sweeper wrote:I'm not used to having to pull the graveyard shift around here. I better be getting a hefty bonus for this....


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#68 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:56 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:grindies
This is the crud that gets thrown up from a mountain biking trail into your drive train.
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#69 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:56 pm

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Just let me know if I pass gsabc.....
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#70 Post by kayrharris » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:58 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
kayrharris wrote:I knew appellation...but I guess at 12:30AM my time, the brain shuts down.
I was trying to tie it specifically to Colorado.
There's another wine term in here that I'm sure you know.

I think whoever wrote this glossary was just trying to fill out and grid and maybe get a few people thinking about Colorado wines. As I said, I don't think California has anything to worry about. Yet.

Had to go back and look. Terroir looks French, so that must be it, but I don't know what it means. Have to go look it up.
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#71 Post by SportsFan68 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:58 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:hardscrabble
Hardscrabble refers to the beautiful barren landscape of the state's high prairies and deserts. Whoever wrote this glossary had a lot of nerve calling this a Colorado term, sorta like appellation.
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#72 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:59 pm

I drove on some hardscrabble.....not sure if I was above the treeline....or even the chickenline.
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#73 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:00 am

SportsFan68 wrote:hogback
Hogbacks are sharp ridges with steeply sloping sides.
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#74 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:02 am

SportsFan68 wrote:lily-dipper
A lily-dipper is a weak rafting mate who just skims the water with his paddle.
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#75 Post by SportsFan68 » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:03 am

SportsFan68 wrote:ovis canadensis
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, the state animal.
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