Backcountry Skiing

Author: Martin Volken
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594850387
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
* For intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers* Includes trip planning, navigation, fitness, and avalanche safety information, in addition to techniques*Provides advice on how to make well-informed backcountry decisionsMartin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountain backcountry. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning backcountry 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.

Backcountry Ski & Snowboard Routes Washington

Author: Martin Volken
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594856575
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
CLICK HERE to download a sample route from Backcountry Ski & Snowboard Washington Ski and snowboard adventures can be found year-round when you know where to look — start here! * Only Mountaineers Books offers guidebooks for backcountry ski routes in Washington, and this is the newest and best available! *Backcountry skiing is one of the fastest growing winter sports * Written by the authors of the bestselling instructional text on the sport, Backcountry Skiing Washington’s Cascades, Olympics, and Mount Rainier are prime destinations for backcountry ski and snowboard adventure, and no one is better qualified to write this guidebook than Martin Volken and his team at Pro Guiding Service, based in the Cascade foothills. The all-new guidebook includes 80 routes throughout the state — plus one in British Columbia! — Ideal for intermediate to expert skiers or snowboarders. It features routes ranging from accessible day trips suitable for relative beginners to more challenging multiday traverses. It’s a guide to the very best routes available to skiers and boarders throughout the state. Each route includes the following elements: * Starting elevation and high point * Elevation gain and loss * Route distance * Time required * Recommended skill and fitness levels * Best season to ski * Maps and permits info * Driving directions, from nearest major town or junction * Detailed route description * Backcountry Ski & Snowboard Routes: Washington also includes an introduction by legendary Northwest skier Lowell Skoog.

A complete guide to Alpine Ski touring Ski mountaineering and Nordic Ski touring

Author: Henry Branigan and Keith Jenns
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491888083
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
A complete guide to Alpine Ski touring Ski mountaineering and Nordic Ski touring: Including useful information for off piste skiers and snow boarders.

Backcountry Skiing Utah

Author: Tyson Bradley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493015729
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Utah skiers claim to have "the greatest snow on earth," and this revised and updated edition guides readers to the best backcountry ski tours in the state. Backcountry expert Tyson Bradley takes skiers from the urban backcountry of the Wasatch Front to spectacular desert destinations in Zion and Bryce, with detailed maps and information on backcountry equipment, techniques, and safety. Ski Utah!

Olympic Mountains

Author: Olympic Mountain Rescue
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898862065
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
The only climbing guide devoted to Washington's Olympic National Park--now completely updated and expanded with more than thirty percent additional new material.

Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northeast

Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club
ISBN: 9781628421248
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Updated for the first time in ten years, the "bible of Eastern backcountry skiing" returns with an all-new edition, fully revised to reflect the latest and greatest off-piste lines--as well as the trove of newly created and rehabilitated ski glades in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New York, and Massachusetts.

Alpine Ski Mountaineering Vol 1 - Western Alps

Author: Bill O'Connor
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1849657416
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Ski mountaineering guidebook to the Western Alps including the classic Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt, tours in the Ecrins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Gran Paradiso, Mont Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. The European Alps offer some of the finest and most accessible ski mountaineering in the world. A combination of magnificent and varied terrain, an enviable snow record, excellent public transport, unrivalled hut system and long ski season make them a focus for mountaineers and skiers throughout the world. Volume 2 of this Alpine Ski Mountaineering series covers the Central and Eastern Alps. The routes described will provide a lifetime's ski mountaineering for the average skier, with rewards and challenges for all levels of ability.

Wild Snow

Author: Louis W. Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Presents historical background on ski mountaineering, which is climbing a mountain on skis and then skiing down the slopes, and offers tips on climbing and skiing specific mountains.

Ski Guide Manual First Edition

Author: Rob Coppolillo
Publisher: Falcon Guides
ISBN: 9781493043422
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
This updated, expert ski guide provides top-of-the-line insight for backcountry/off-piste skiiers and guides. The Ski Guide Manual presents wisdom earned through decades of experience guiding and. The result is a successful system of travel and risk management in the winter environment. The collective work of thousands of mountain guides have proven how to have the most fun and find the best snow, all which reducing risk of avalanche, cold, crevasses, and optimize group dynamics.

Alpine Ski Touring

Author: Bruce Goodlad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906095666
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
This is a selected guidebook of ski tours in the European Alps. We have chosen classic ski tours at a variety of grades spread through the Alps, with some well-known venues and others not on the radar of British ski tourers. The 22 places selected have enough routes to keep you busy for a week or more's ski touring and will allow you to get to know the area well enough to inspire you to make up your own tours. Stunning photos, useful planning maps, and accurate descriptions make this the most up to date, english language guidebook to ski touring in the Alps available. In order to be as up to date as possible, the routes have been contributed by UIAGM/IFMGA guides who know the area well and have toured there recently. Contributors: Mike Austin, Martin Chester, Al Powell, Mark Charlton, Andy Teasdale, Tim Blakemore, Jonny Baird, Graham Frost, Bruce Goodlad, Terry Ralphs, Rob Collister, Olly Allen, Cain Olsen and Andy Perkins.