Backcountry Skiing
Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering
£19.99
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Backcountry Skiing is for intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers. Includes safety, navigation, nutrition and fitness information in addition to techniques, providing advice on how to make well-informed decisions.
Martin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge that they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountains. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning wilderness 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
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£19.99
Cordee Code: CTS220 Author: Martin Volken, Scott Schell, Margaret Wheeler No of Pages: 288 Page Size: 180 x 215 mm ISBN 10: 1594850380 ISBN 13: 9781594850387 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Published Date: December 2007 Binding: Paperback Illustrations: b/w photos Weight: 680g
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