Guessing What These US Mountain Region Words Mean

I've never heard anyone in Colorado called a 'Peak Bagger', but we de say 'bagging a peak' (climbing a 14er). We say 'flatlander,' but not as an insult - usually to talk about someone's altitude sickness. ('He has a headache from the altitude - he's a flatlander.') Now if only he'd talked about Rocky Mountain Oysters!

I am from Idaho, and while I don't generally take offense to much of anything, I think if someone were to call me a "spud-muncher," I think I would assume they don't mean it in a complimentary way.

If you think ward is weird, just wait until you find out what a "stake conference" is

so my son who lives in Denver is a Greenie Peak Bagger who has climbed over 20 fourteeners... along with Mt. Kilamanjaro recently. great video

In Oregon we call flatlanders, lowlanders. I specifically told the restaurant waiter upon arrival in Denver we were lowlanders, so he knew we needed water and rest quickly.👍he, got us fixed right up. Also, many years ago here, greenies were environmentalists, sometimes called tree-huggers. Even though we all like the trees, but with varied priorities.

I grew up in CO and now live in WY and the slang used in both states sounds pretty accurate to me. On the jockey box: I’ve never heard it referred to as a glove box but I do understand the context. Jockey boxes were storage boxes attached to the front of a covered wagon, so contextually they were the glove boxes of the mid to late 19th century!

About “Greenies”: it might help to know Colorado’s license plates used to be the same design as now but inverse colors, as in, green mountains with a thin strip of white sky. That was the design from the late 1970s until 2000, when they kept the outline but flipped the colors. So my guess is they started calling Coloradans “greenies” during that era when you could recognize a Colorado car from a very long distance just by that rectangle of green on the bumper.

Looks like Laurence has been combing his hair with a doorknob again. 🤣 Great video, dude....glad you're feeling better!

Fourteeners Yeah. I knew that. Take another look at that Colorado license plate. It shows the 7 fourteeners that can be seen from the steps of the capital building in Denver.

As a native Utahn, who's mostly lived in the mountain west, I knew a lot of these. I'd say it was more common to just hear donuts vs spinning donuts, especially when it snowed. You'd hear someone say, "I did donuts in the parking lot" and people know what you're talking about. I didn't realize "biffed it" was a local slang term. 😅 Now I feel like I did when I found out sluffing was a Utah/Idaho word. To biff it means to fail epically with a fall. Like, "Ooh, he biffed it" when falling off a vehicle, or skateboard, or just missing a step and taking a really hard fall off like a curb or something; it's gotta be dramatic. I don't know anyone who'd use it to describe running into or simply hitting something.

Wyoming native here. I laughed so hard when greenie came up. To answer your question, what do the Coloradans think. We don’t care what they think lol.

Gully Washers are storms that produce flash floods. Campers are warned not to camp in gullies (dry creek beds) because a storm miles upstream can send a flood of water through the gully.

I have heard the term "flatlander" used in Vermont, although the mountains there are not tall enough so that thinner air is a concern. Putting on shoes or climbing one flight of stairs at 10,000 feet (3000 meters) above sea level in the mountains of the West can leave you short of breath and questioning whether you are fit enough to even attempt skiing or other sports.

Haha I'm from Idaho and I've been called a spud munched as a joke from my Montana friends. Made me laugh out loud 🤣

We call it pulling a donut. It's a real hoot on empty, snow-covered parking lots, and great training for highway driving in the snowy Wasatch Mountains, or possibly the Oquirrhs!

Coloradan here! (Guess I’m a Greenie? 🤣) This was a hoot! If you ever do a part 2, take a guess at Rocky Mountain Oysters. That was the one I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the laugh!

As a spud muncher (IFtowner to be exact-ish), I can say I find that term absolutely hilarious although I personally have never heard it. The last two words however I have heard too. Ward is quite common as LDS members are quite common in Idaho and biffed it I hear from friends.

As someone from Utah, who lives in Colorado… I feel so heard 😂

In general, in both American and British slang, "bagging" is derived from the practice of hunters placing small quarry into a game bag.

"Carrot Snapper" refers to the prevalence of serving Carrot Salad in Utah