Where to ski and snowboard – resort guides
Ski Mountaineering
Telemark and free heel skiing

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Where to ski and snowboard –  resort guides

Ski America & Canada: Top Winter Resorts in USA and Canada
A continent-wide guidebook for skiing and snowboarding in North America. Find out where the best snow is to be found, which are the best resorts, which resorts are geared for singles, or lack nightlife. This is the Bible for planning a ski trip to any of North America's winter resorts. Award-winning journalists provide unflinchingly honest evaluations of the skiing, accommodation, restaurants, nightlife, child care and ski schools.

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Top Ski Resorts of the World
This is a beautiful showcase of 40 of the world's most outstanding skiing areas on four continents; it would make a great gift for the keen skier, or to just drool over for yourself! This is a book to provide the inspiration be you a novice skier or a daredevil heliskier. It covers quaint Alpine villages to demanding black diamond runs in North America and fascinating Japanese resorts. The Ski Club of Great Britain has supplied fact boxes for each resort: accessibility, height, number and level of pistes, and number of lifts.

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Ski Mountaineering

Ski Mountaineering in Scotland
Despite recent milder winters, there is still some good Skiing to be done in Scotland. This book is an excellent guide for those able to grab the moment and ski the Scottish hills when the snow is good. It introduces many of the best ski mountaineering routes and provides some excellent inspiration.

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Telemarking and free heel skiing

Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions
This just has to be the bible of telemark ski books! By that renowned expert at the art of free-heel skiing – Paul Parker – it's full of excellent advice, tips and anecdotes to inspire everyone from the complete novice to the experienced telemarker. Starting with the snowplough, Parker takes the reader through the progressions on free heel equipment, and ends with that beautiful turn, the telemark! He discusses approaches for all snow conditions, from deep powder to breakable crust and in between inspires with engaging tales of some of his own ski experiences.

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Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips: 109 Amazing Tips to Improve Your Tele-Skiing ... and this is the other 'must have' for all tele skiers. Following up on the phenomenal success of their debut backcountry ski book, Allen and Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips is the perfect book for anybody who's ever yearned to master the subtleties of the telemark turn. Over 100 clear, concise telemark tips are complemented by hilarious and helpful illustrations. Written for beginners and experts alike, this book is a must for tele-skiers who really want to shred.

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And if you like that one you might like this one too, the one that started it all off:
Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book: Traveling and Camping Skills for a Winter
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