Author: Klindt VielbigPublisher:
ISBN: 9780898864045
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Includes 500 trails covering over 2,000 miles. Details and maps for beginning to advanced tours.
Author: Steve BarnettWorld Class
Author: Peggy ShinnPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512601810
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
What makes a great team? Sports journalist Peggy Shinn answers this question in her enthralling account of the dramatic rise of the U.S. women's cross-country ski team, winners of eight medals at three world championships over the past five years. Shinn's story - based on dozens of interviews with athletes, coaches, parents, spouses, and friends - paints a vivid picture of the obstacles that America's female athletes must overcome not just to ski with the world's best, but to beat them. In a sport where U.S. women have toiled for decades, mostly in the middle or the back of the pack, the development of a world-class team attests to the heady combination of a transformational leader, a coach who connects with his athletes, the super-fast individual skiers who are also conscientious teammates - and a bit of good luck. This is the story of Kikkan Randall, Liz Stephen, Holly Brooks, Jessie Diggins, Ida Sargent, Sadie Bjornsen, Sophie Caldwell, Rosie Brennan, and coach Matt Whitcomb - and how they created the perfect team.
Color the Tahoe Rim Trail
Author: Jared ManninenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780983403654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Tahoe Rim Trail is a continuous trail that travels around the mountainous rim of the Lake Tahoe Basin. People from all over the world have come to Lake Tahoe to venture out on the Tahoe Rim Trail. Whether you've already experienced many of the amazing sites to see on the Tahoe Rim Trail or are hoping to one day visit it, Color the Tahoe Rim Trail will take you on the entire 165+ mile journey around Lake Tahoe. Color the Tahoe Rim Trail features 79 full page illustrations for you to color, and is the first in Jared Manninen's series of wilderness activity books. Through engaging activities, tales of lessons learned, and education about backcountry skills and etiquette, these wilderness activity books will inspire creativity and help you cultivate adventure in your daily life.
Backcountry Skiing
Author: Martin VolkenPublisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9781594850387
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : it
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.
High Performance Nordic Training
Author: Stuart KremznerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781641842433
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Take your nordic skiing training to a new level of performance! This book teaches nordic skiers how to optimize their athletic development through training planning concepts of testing, training planning, periodization, overtraining, regeneration, Junior athlete development, and race preparation. Athletes will also learn how to properly implement interval and speed training for improved race performance, with specific sections for Master's and Junior athlete specific training development. Skiers will develop the skills to progress year after year.Author Stuart Kremzner is an exercise physiologist who has nordic coached and raced for 25 years. He was a developer of the USSA and NENSA coaches education curriculum, then consulted with the US Ski Team and many college teams.
Cross-Country Cat
Author: Mary CalhounPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688065198
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
What kind of cat would go sliding off on skis, and who'd believe it anyway? When the family accidentally leaves Henry, their sassy Siamese, behind at the ski lodge, he takes matters into his own paws in this beguiling adventure.
Author: Ned GilletteTrail to Gold
Author: U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578963327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fifty-three American women have participated in cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympics between the years of 1972 and 2018. In 2018, forty-six years after the first team competed, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold in the Team Sprint, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the first Olympic medal for U.S. women's cross-country skiing. Five decades of women skiers stood up and cheered, celebrating this long sought after achievement. This book shares the collective journey of these women Olympians, with the skiers themselves telling the story. Part I combines individual stories along a variety of themes, to collectively demonstrate the challenges of competing against the best in the world. In Part II, virtually every one of the fifty-three wrote her own profile to describe her skiing career and post-Olympic life. Photographs throughout put faces with the stories and add vibrancy to the narrative. The anecdotes in Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers, paint the picture of women's cross-country skiing over 50 years--a fascinating history recorded in personal heartbreak and triumph and in fun vignettes from life on the trail.
Author: Audun Endestad