Definition of "high-marking" [high-marking]

• An activity specific to snowmobiling, where a snomobile attempts to ride as far as possible up a steep slope, then turn and come down without rolling or stalling on the hill. (noun)

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• "Corporal Craig Douglass, an RCMP spokesman, said the men were not high-marking at the time of the slide - that's when snowmobilers deliberately drive straight up a slope."
• ""I don't think we're going to be a high-marking Fevola/Brown-type forward line, where you've got two gun players this like Saturday night," he said."
• "Witnesses said the avalanche was triggered by a snowmobiler "high-marking" as part of a competition between riders on the souped-up machines to see who could drive the farthest up the mountain - a theory that the report corroborates, although it notes that "some of what we have been told is unsubstantiated.""