Backcountry Skiing, Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering 2nd Edition

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Available from Feathered Friends when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This deeply revised and comprehensive second edition of Backcountry Skiing , by elite Swiss mountain guide Martin Volken and his coauthors, Margaret Wheeler and Scott Schell, provides skiers and boarders with foundational skills, improved techniques, and better preparation before they head into the mountains. In addition to step-by-step guidance on mastering techniques, features include recent evolutions in ski equipment; an in-depth look at avalanche safety; a primer on mountain weather and gla