Backcountry Skiing; Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering
Backcountry Skiing is for intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers. Includes safety, navigation, nutrition and fitness information as well as providing advice on how to make well-informed decisions
- 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
- 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
- Binding: Paperback
- Illustrations: b/w photos
- Weight: 680g
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