A warming planet has meant that since 2001 was the hottest year on record. Climate change will eventually force many populations to migrate and put a quarter of all species at risk of vanishing. But not all of the doomsday scenarios will unfold before our eyes. The subtleties of climate catastrophe are already affecting language around the world. Wherever you call home, the very words coming out of your mouth are in danger of becoming obsolete. Take these six, for example.

Leg Basket

Noun: A compartmental structure on the hind legs of certain bees used to harvest and transport pollen.

Yes, losing polar bears will be sad. But pollinators, especially bees, are responsible for the growth of nearly 75 percent of global food crops. Shorter winters, earlier springs, and shrinking habitats have contributed to a decline in bee populations鈥攕o much so that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently added the rusty patched bumblebee to the endangered species list. Donald Trump , but if the bee does end up on the list, it will be the first continental U.S. bee species on the list, an insect that and Canadian provinces but is now seen in only 13.

Lift Line

Noun: The queue of skiers and snowboarders waiting to board a chairlift for a ride up the mountain at a winter resort.

This winter, ski resorts have seen record-breaking storms and crowds. So climate threats must be a Cascadian hoax, right? No. Though colder and warmer winters are determined mainly by fickle jet streams, global warming has contributed to an increased number of 鈥淓nd of Days鈥� storms . The average global temperature since 1880: warmer weather means more moisture in the air, which means more intense precipitation events. At lower elevations, another two-degree temperature increase has the potential to turn all that fresh powder into floods and landslides. And you may have noticed this winter that the . While there might be a few epic days in the middle of winter, there鈥檚 of winter.

Lanthanides

Noun: The series of rare-earth elements used in the production of myriad green and high-tech devices.

Hooray for hybrid cars and renewable energy, right? Yes, but those car batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines (along with iPhones, MRI scans, and 4K TVs) require the of neodymium, dysprosium, and more than a dozen other elements that can unleash radioactive by-products and contaminate the air and water. Companies are looking at substitutes for the very elements we currently rely on for many of the 鈥済reen鈥� products that ease our carbon-footprint guilt. With rising demand for renewable and high-tech elements, the vast majority of them coming from China, more companies are putting research and development into abundant-metal substitutes for lanthanides.

Icefoot

Noun: An unmoving ribbon of sea ice that attaches to the coast or edge of a glacier.

Because water absorbs sunlight and ice reflects it, less ice in the sea is an inherent recipe for warmer air, warmer water, more melting sea ice, and ultimately, disappearing coastal cities and towns. Arctic sea ice is at a rate of 13 percent each decade, but when the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland melt completely (), sea level will rise 220 feet, displacing one out of every five people on Earth.

Scallop Dredge

Noun: A rake/cage/net thingamabob that鈥檚 dragged along the bottom of the ocean to collect scallops for consumption.

Seafood is the primary protein for more than 3 billion people. The fisheries industry employs 260 million workers worldwide. Those among the first to get their pink slips? Shellfishermen. A warming ocean bodes ill for the sensitive scallop and other shellfish with limited mobility, and the extra billions of tons of CO2 that have been added to the water are making ocean water so corrosive that it鈥檚 and preventing growth of scallop larvae.

Hogshead

Noun: A large cask, a unit of measure for a large volume of liquid, usually beer or wine.

From the regions of Europe that produce to the Agave tequilana landscapes of Mexico to the vast fields of big-beer barley in the United States, prolonged drought, extreme heat, and the northern migration of climate zones have started to threaten the bottom line for many in the booze business. Shorter growing seasons, higher temps, more pests, and less water have altered the chemistry, quality, and yield of crops, forcing vintners and brewers to move or halt production. Brewers especially聽are already getting creative and responding to these challenges,聽leading us to hope that when the apocalypse comes, at least there may be some booze.听

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Old school barely begins to describe聽Petranboarding, which might聽be聽the world鈥檚 earliest form of snowboarding. The gear聽hasn鈥檛 changed much from the 18th century, when it originated in Petran, Turkey:聽riders use a snow-sliding apparatus that鈥檚 not much more than a piece of plywood with a rope handle. In Petran, a small logging village in聽the foothills of the Ka莽kar Mountains,聽some聽locals still ride Petranboards every winter. That's the subject of Foothills, a new short film by pro snowboarder and Patagonia ambassador聽, along with friends Wade Dunstan and David Cleeland of production company聽.听

Yoder, 27, is a Jackson Hole native who eschewed the advice of loved ones and traveled to eastern Turkey last February to document the Petran scene, which he fears is in danger of extinction.听

OUTSIDE: How did you discover this 鈥渓ost鈥� snowboarding civilization?聽聽
YODER: [Pro snowboarder] Nicolas Mueller went to Turkey on a heli trip with Absinthe Films and stumbled upon this town.听There was a clip of him riding one of these boards in the movie聽. It made me realize there was more to snowboarding history than the 40 years I thought existed. This really stuck out as something we could make special.听

It seemed you were able to immerse yourselves into the community and culture.听聽
We were there for three weeks and聽definitely dropped right in. We planned to stay with this guy Ismael, who I connected with on Facebook, but an avalanche closed the road to his lodge, and we had to change our plans very last minute. Like聽鈥渁t the beginning of the road to the lodge鈥� last minute.听聽

Ismael suggested we go check out this winter festival on the west side of the Ka莽kar Mountains, in northeastern Turkey. The people were so welcoming and helpful, and the festival was basically a bunch of people dancing around in a circle, a bagpipe player in the middle, holding hands and arms and shuffling their feet. We show up with our fancy snowboards, and people were sliding down a little hill on garbage bags.听聽

One of the guys in our crew went on an exploratory mission, found a snowcat, talked to the driver as much as he could, and set us up with a day on the cat to get farther into the mountain range. We spent the next five days on our splitboards going as deep as we could get with this sketchy old snowcat. That鈥檚 how we found the sheds in the movie鈥攑eople live in them during summer while their livestock grazes, but they鈥檙e vacant in the winter.听

Did they have any kind of local snowboard scene where you were, or were you guys total aliens when you showed up?聽
In this area, it wasn鈥檛 something the locals did. There isn鈥檛 a backcountry culture, and there are only a few resorts in the country. In Petran, those guys hike into the backcountry a little, but nothing like it is in the States. Coming from Jackson, it was a welcome reprieve.听

What kind of impact do you hope this film has?聽聽
Hopefully for Western snowboard culture, it鈥檚 an opportunity to step back, look at the world in a different light, and see that there鈥檚 more to snowboarding history than we think. Hopefully people realize it doesn鈥檛 have to be a serious sport. It鈥檚 more of a toy聽if you want it to be.听聽

I also hope we鈥檙e challenging our xenophobic nature in America. Going to Turkey right after a terrorist attack and right before another one was challenging. I had a lot of people in my ear asking why I was going, what was the point, why was it worth it. But everybody we met was welcoming and excited that Americans were visiting the country.听聽

For Turkey, I hope it gives them a little visibility and helps maintain and spark interest in the culture so that it becomes a thing that seems worthy of preserving. Kids in those villages are more influenced by popular culture, and it seemed like this wasn鈥檛 destined to survive.听

Watch Petranboarding聽here.听

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鈥淒id I look skinny?鈥澛燙anadian backcountry guide-in-training says after straight-lining a run wearing nothing but an avalanche beacon. After a season with historically bad snowfall and zero access to the local backcountry outside Whistler, Van Gyn pulled in $100 on a bet and provided much-needed comedy relief for her crew on a down day from filming.

When only 20 percent of making a snowboard movie involves actual snowboarding, and the rest is spent passing time in the snow鈥攈ow do you illustrate, for the uninitiated, the part of your life that most makes you you? How do you showcase the thing that has brought out the grit, joy, terror, and frustration you didn鈥檛 know you had in you, that led you to magical locales, real friends, and a spiritual connection to nature?

What if that thing was also a culture, movement, and sport with a unique history鈥攐ne whose record might disappear if you didn鈥檛 immortalize it?

These are the challenges that pro snowboarder and filmmaker Leanne Pelosi has grappled with to direct and produce . Shot in whimsical locations like Baldface Lodge outside Nelson, British Columbia, and Alagna, Italy, with Sony HD cameras and top snowboard cinematographers, the movie ambitiously celebrates 20 years of women鈥檚 snowboarding鈥攂oth the action and the lifestyle. For two years, the 11 pro riders involved in making the film have released froth-worthy powder shots and webisodes to build hype across a network of 600,000 Instagram followers. On September 16, the film premieres in Whistler.

Assembling this group of women in the same film is akin to having a tailgate party attended by the top 11 quarterbacks in the NFL. Right place, right time is the least of it. Individually, each of them has fought to earn a coveted spot on an international big-brand team鈥攖eams where they are the only females. Most of them have been pro snowboarders for over a decade, having paid their dues hucking themselves on the contest circuit before earning the trust and respect of their long-term sponsors to film full-time for a paycheck.听

Prior to the Internet turning anyone who can French fry with their skis into overnight GoPro heroes, a handful of high-production value companies that made money off an annual ski or snowboard film typically included a token female in their ranks. Back then, says Mike Hatchett, creator of the snowboard film series , 鈥渢he talent pool was smaller. It was difficult to find a woman to come out and hit the same jumps the guys were doing.鈥�

鈥淕irls have always had to prove they were good enough to be part of a men鈥檚 project,鈥� pro snowboarder Marie-France Roy says. For nearly all the women who had 鈥渕ade it鈥濃�攁nd landed with a dude鈥檚 crew鈥攖o say 鈥淣o, thanks,鈥澛爐o a bigger production company so they could film together on a meager budget fueled mostly by Kickstarter, not Red Bull, took rolling some huge, lady-sized dice.

For Pelosi, it was now or never. 鈥淚 was going to make this movie whether I had five dollars or thousands of dollars,鈥� she says. 鈥淓very year for the last ten聽years, I have to ask myself, am I going to get re-signed? What if our careers all end next year? This was our chance. We鈥檇 have more power in one film.鈥�

It was an easy sell. 鈥淎ll this time we鈥檇 been missing out on having fun shredding together. Even though we weren鈥檛 competitors, we were competing with each other for our chunk of bread for the majority of our careers. It was cool to finally team up,鈥� Roy says.

Full Moon is not intended to be the never-been-done shot-after-shot trick-stravaganza associated with standard snow porn. It鈥檚 meant to make you want to go into the mountains with friends and push yourself physically and psychologically. Still, Pelosi says the style of riding featured in the film will be a surprise to viewers. 鈥淲e鈥檙e all known for tricks and stuff, but we opened up a new chapter of snowboarding for ourselves by seeking out new places and riding bigger lines鈥攂ig mountains that require more patience, learning and experience than just banging out tricks.鈥�

The women spent their days wrestling snowmobiles three times their weight, setting a bootpack in waist-deep snow hours from civilization, and sending airs off huge cliffs. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just fun to just be on hill with them to witness that confidence, power, and finesse,鈥� says Barrett Christy, who appears in the film and has more X Games medals than any other female winter athlete.

For Christy and others, it鈥檚 nice to finally see women鈥檚 snowboarding get its due. And it鈥檚 been a long time coming. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a short history, but we need to document it so it doesn鈥檛 disappear and generations won鈥檛 be forgotten,鈥� she says. 鈥淲e have to have the roots to grow from.鈥�

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