Mountain bike lingo

Hello Everyone, Using lingo specific to an activity is a dangerous thing. Use it correctly, and you get a secret pass into the cool kids club. Use it incorrectly and you just look ridiculous. Like a lot of things, less is often more. Throw in the right slang term in an otherwise normal sentence and you make an instant positive impression. But if every other word you use is "something the kids are saying", you are trying too hard. Today, Jonny and I got to ride in Bend, Oregon. If you've ever seen the show Portlandia, you get an impression of what it's like here. Don't get me wrong, I fit in easily with a town that prizes beards, craft beer, and flannel. I just also like to laugh at these places, and myself by extension. We chatted with a guy at the trailhead, and he was very nice, but he was dropping some lingo in his description of the trails. Specifically, he described one as being 'super tacky' and having 'hero dirt'. These mean that the ground is just wet enough to be firm and grippy, hence tacky, allowing one to go really fast, hence hero dirt. It had neither. It was a nice trail and all, but it was dry as a bone and sandy. You certainly could not go at maximum speed, as sand is pretty bad for grip. Perhaps all this is relative, and that it gets even drier in the summer. But perhaps a guy just wanted to drop some lingo. Least I come across as mean spirited, I'll admit that I feel petty silly anytime I use some slang in a bike shop. But when I started sliding out on soft corner, my immediate thought was 'hero dirt my ass'. Wes