Allen & Mikes Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book
Allen & Mike are back with totally updated information and first-hand advice for all aspects of backcountry skiing and winter camping. Learn how to choose the right equipment, avoid hazards such as avalanches and extreme cold, build snow shelters, and have fun while staying safe and minimizing the impact on the wilderness. These two National Outdoor Leadership School instructors offer lots of tried-and-true tricks and useful tips drawn from years of experience. The material is easy to understand and accompanied by hundreds of entertaining illustrations by renowned illustrator Mike Clelland!
Alpine Ski Touring: Selected Ski Tours in the European Alps - Bruce Goodlad
Avalanche Essentials by Bruce Tremper Book
This is the companion to Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain, the bestselling avalanche text in the U.S - with easy-to-understand safety tips and checklists to help anyone stay safer in avalanche terrain. It is a small, take-along resource to reference in the field and assist decision making. Winter athletes don't necessarily want to be snow scientists, but playing in avalanche country does require basic knowledge of the risks in order to stay safe. This new guide by renowned avalanche expert Bruce Tremper is simple, accessible, and offers just the basics - an Everyman's guide to avalanche safety that won't overtax your average ski bums, but will keep them safe when they're going for 12 consecutive months of powder. Avalanche Essentials is for everyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of avalanche awareness, focusing on systems and checklists, step-by-step procedures, decision-making aids, visual terrain and weather cues, rescue techniques, gear, and more. Avalanche Essentials is intended for broader use by skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, hikers, climbers, and snowshoers. Because it steers clear of more complex topics (e.g., snow metamorphism), it's perfect for generalists as well as anyone who has studied avalanche safety and likes to keep a pocket reference while in potentially dangerous terrain.
Avalanche Pocket Guide - A Field Reference
Full-colour fold-out guide with the most critical 'quick info' that skiers, snowboarders, and other mountain enthusiasts need while in the winter backcountry. A portable complement to Tremper's best-selling Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain and Avalanche Essentials: A Step-by-Step System for Safety and Survival. The Avalanche Pocket Guide includes quick and visual safety reminders: the 5 As and 2 Cs to consider when evaluating avalanche terrain; the trusty Tremper Terrain-o-Meter; a snowpack stability checklist; quick review of snowpack stability tests; low-risk travel ritual; a gear checklist; Avalanche Smart Card graphic that pulls it all together; beacon search tips; and more. Waterproof, folded, laminated card with 16 panels of colour photos and illustrations.
Backcountry Skiing - Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering
Crevasse Rescue Pocket Guide - A field Reference
Crevasse rescue is one of the most technically complex skills a mountaineer will ever need to learn; it is also one of the most essential. While climbers can go for years without having to set up a Z-pulley system, they need to be ready for that one crucial moment when it is essential. The Crevasse Rescue Pocket Guide allows glacier climbing parties to have a rugged, packable resource to reference in the field. Climbers can pull it out on their way to the climb, at a pre-glacier break on the route, or for a few minutes at night in the tent?it's a convenient, step-by-step refresher to look at on trips where this knowledge may be needed. Similar to Mountaineers Books' successful Avalanche Pocket Guide, the new Crevasse Rescue Pocket Guide is a full-color, 16-panel laminated and folded card for in-the-field reference. Alpine climbers will keep the guide in their crevasse rescue kit when traveling on glaciers. Not a substitute for training and practice, it's a handy, lightweight reminder and reference tool that helps rope mates and rescuers implement rescue techniques efficiently and correctly in a highly stressful situation.
Going Downhill Fast - Cleeves Palmer
Cleeves Palmer's connections with the Amstutz family took him to Switzerland and introduced him to the founding fathers of competitive alpine skiing and the Kandahar. In the last year of his presidency of the world's senior ski racing club, Cleeves looks back on nearly half a century of holidays in 'magical Murren' and shares his memories of skiing there with heroes, friends and family. On his way up the ladder from humble assistant course setter to Kandahar President, Cleeves crosses paths with Royalty and sporting greats and reflects on his own racing achievements.
Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles Rouges: A Guide for Skiers - Anselme Baud
Scottish Offpiste Skiing & Snowboarding Glencoe by Kinny Biggin
Scottish Offpiste Skiing & Snowboarding: Nevis Range & Ben Nevis - Kenny Biggin
Ski De Randonnee autour du Mont-Blanc (Ski Touring Around Mont Blanc) - Francois Matet
Ski Mountaineering in the Dolomites by Enrico Baccanti & Francesco Tremolada
Ski Snacks - Easy, Tasty Recipes For Powder Days & Mountain Adventures
Ski Touring and Snowshoeing in The Dolomites 50 Winter Routes
Guidebook to 50 ski touring and snowshoeing routes in the Dolomites. The routes, which carry an Alpine (and when appropriate, a Volo/Toponeige) grading, range from 5km to 18km, taking between 2 and 7 hours to complete. The routes are based in and around areas such as Canazei, Arabba, Corvara and San Martino, taking in stunning scenery, quaint villages and enchanting mountain vistas. Clear route descriptions are accompanied by 1:50K mapping and photo topos, together with information such as total ascent and descent (as well as aspect), expected duration of route and equipment required. Also provided is invaluable practical advice on things such as mountain safety and navigation, equipment, transport options to, from and around the Dolomites, ski passes, accommodation and more. Regarded as one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world, the Dolomites offer endless winter escapades. Those who venture off the beaten track and into the backcountry (whether by ski or by shoe) will discover a veritable winter wonderland.
The Snow Show by Lance Fung - Thames & Hudson
Ambitious, unique and impermanent, seventeen sublime works in snow and ice were realized through partnerships between thirty-four impassioned international artists and architects. A triumph of creativity over fleeting material, the results are ingenious and breathtaking. others.
Val dIsere - Tignes Off Piste - Hors Piste
This guidebook describes the best off-piste descents in Val d'Isere and Tignes. The ultimate skiing or snowboarding experience, going off-piste allows you to discover the fantastic world of the mountains. A beautiful world for sure, but also a wild and complex one which hides many dangers. This book has been written with this in mind. Each route has been described in detail to allow the user to choose a suitable itinerary and to prepare for their descent to enable you to make the most of the extraordinary posssibilities offered by the 'Espace Killy'. This is the December 2014 edition, in French and English, with full colour photos and topo-maps.