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Backcountry
Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering (Mountaineers Outdoor
Expert Series)
by Martin Volken, Scott Schell, Margaret Wheeler
Paperback from Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594850380
Martin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools
and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountains.
The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring
and ski mountaineering, from planning wilderness trips to perfecting turns
in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready
for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional
mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors,
using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more.
In addition to mastering techniques, Backcountry Skiing also features
information on recent evolutions in ski equipment; avalanche safety tips;
a primer on mountain weather and glaciers, trip planning tools, a discussion
of emergency situations, nutrition and fitness advice, and winter camping
basics. Throughout this guide, a special emphasis is put on being well-informed
and making good decisions-whenever you strap on your skis and skins and
head out into the backcountry. |
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Long
Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
by Bill McKibben
Paperback from Rodale Books
Media Published: 2010-
ISBN: 1605291242
A new edition of a classic McKibben
book about what it takes to be a world-class athlete and where the true
meaning of endurance can be found.
At 37, the celebrated writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben took
a break from the life of the mind to put himself to the ultimate test:
devoting a year to train as a competitive cross-country skier. Consulting
with personal trainers, coaches, and doctors at the US Olympic Center,
he followed the rigorous training regimen of a world-class athlete.Along
the way, he learned to cope with his physical limitations and, when his
father was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor, discovered something
about the real meaning of endurance.Told with his trademark intelligence,
humor, and honesty, Long Distance is an insightful examination of
the culture and mind-set of endurance athletes, and a moving and inspiring
meditation on finding balance in our often harried lives.At the age of
37, bestselling author and journalist Bill McKibben stepped out of the
ordinary routine of his life to spend a year in "real training" as a cross-country
skier. With the help of a trainer-slash-guru, McKibben took on a regimen
equivalent to that of an Olympic endurance athlete's, running and skiing
for hours every day in preparation for a series of grueling long-distance
ski races. What prompted this successful writer with an admitted aversion
to competitive sports to push himself so hard, for so long?
Partly it was pure selfishness; after a decade as an environmental
writer and activist, I needed a break from failing to save the world. But
mostly it was curiosity that drove me. By year's end I hoped I'd have more
sense of what life lived through the body felt like.
If Long Distance begins as a story about the transformation of the
body and what it means to challenge one's physical limits, it evolves into
a thoughtful lesson about a wholly different kind of endurance. Halfway
through McKibben's training, his father was diagnosed with the most virulent
form of brain cancer. As McKibben was reaching peak condition, his father's
life lurched toward an end, forcing McKibben to snap out of his self-inflicted
self-absorption. He had tried to think of endurance as "the ability to
fight through the drama of pain. But now I understood it, too, as a kind
of elegance, a lightness that could only come from such deep comfort with
yourself that you began to forget about yourself." And the elegance of
Long
Distance is in its ultimate lesson that each of us has a mind, a body,
and a spirit, and we must find our strength in all three realms.
--Svenja
Soldovieri |
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Free-Heel
Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions
by Paul Parker
Paperback from Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 0898864127
Incorporating the best and most recent techniques from both alpine and
Nordic skiing, Free-heel Skiing presents skiers with the latest methods
for tackling the full range of terrain and snow. Everything from beginning
turns to advanced telemark techniques is covered, along with tips for choosing
and caring for equipment and suggestions for conditioning and strength
training.
In this bible for telemark skiers, author Paul Parker covers everything
you'll need to know to free your heel. |
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Cross
Country Cat
by Mary Calhoun, Erick Ingraham
Hardcover from William Morrow & Co
ISBN: 0688221866
When he becomes lost in the mountains, a cat with the unusual ability
of walking on two legs finds his way home on cross-country skis. |
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