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| Author | : Tom Simek |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2014-10-17 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781502778017 |
High in the mountains of Colorado skiing is not just a winter sport, it's a way of life.
| Author | : Heather Hansman |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1488069050 |
*A Boston Globe Bestseller!* *An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick!* *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Award!* "A sparkling account."—Wall Street Journal An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists The story of skiing is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Blossoming from the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, the sport took hold across the country, driven by adventurers seeking the rush of freedom that only cold mountain air could provide. As skiing gained in popularity, mom-and-pop backcountry hills gave way to groomed trails and eventually the megaresorts of today. Along the way, the pioneers and diehards—the ski bums—remained the beating heart of the scene. Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana to West Virginia, Hansman profiles the people who have built their lives around a cold-weather obsession. Along the way she reckons with skiing's problematic elements and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of the existential threat of climate change.
| Author | : Ellen Post Foster |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Heather Hansman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 022643267X |
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.
| Author | : Jeremy Evans |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0803234112 |
As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture--a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: "Ski as much as possible." His snowboarding suffered when he left for a job in the Portland area; and when, at twenty-six, he suffered a stroke, he reexamined his priorities, quit his job, moved back to Tahoe, and threw himself into snowboarding. But while he had been away, the culture had changed. This book is Evans's paean to the disappearing culture of the ski bum. A fascinating look at a world far removed from the larger culture, it is also a curious account of a passion for powder and what its disappearance means. Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters--rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own path--and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyle presents.
| Author | : Carol Poster |
| Publisher | : Ics Books |
| Total Pages | : 74 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781570340307 |
A humorous guide to skiing for the uninitiated discusses how to hide incompetence, ski area etiquette, looking cool while crashing, and knee surgery for beginners
| Author | : Chris Tomlinson |
| Publisher | : Youcaxton Publications |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2015-09-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781909644663 |
Part memoir, part observational humour, this seriously funny book, documents the author's transition from a city living executive, to a garage dwelling ski bum in the French Alps. It will be enjoyed by anyone who has either been on a skiing holiday, is thinking of running a ski chalet, wants to be a ski instructor or is planning a midlife crisis - it's not really about skiing.
| Author | : Topher Donahue |
| Publisher | : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1771600233 |
Take the snowiest mountains in Canada, add two Austrian immigrants, an army of adrenaline-addicted skiers (kings, queens, billionaires, average people and everyday ski bums) and throw a helicopter into the mix for an unforgettable story of mountain adventure. The tale begins when two childhood friends-Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair-leave postwar Austria and travel to Canada in search of adventure. They stumble upon employment taking skiers across the vast glaciers and through the thick forests of Western Canada. When skiers start asking the immigrant mountaineers if it would be possible to use a helicopter to reach the best high-altitude powder, the two find themselves catapulted into a project brimming with more adventure, success, tragedy and fame than they could have dreamed. Complete with archival and contemporary photos, this is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents and innovations behind the evolution of a sport from a dangerous, ramshackle and lawless enterprise into a multi-million dollar industry offering reliable access to one of the world's most exciting forms of recreation.
