Ski Books

[lukoson]

Anyone have any good ski books they can recommend? Either instructional or just fun reads.

I've read Lito Tejada-Flores "Breakthrough on the New Skis" and would recommend anyone trying to "Say Goodbye to the Intermediate Blues".

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[Brownski]

So many but this is what I could find quick

 

[MarzNC]

I've read Lito Tejada-Flores "Breakthrough on the New Skis" and would recommend anyone trying to "Say Goodbye to the Intermediate Blues".

Lito's book I've re-read the most is called Soft Skiing. He wrote it when he was older. Made sense to me as someone who learned on straight skis but didn't have a chance to get in enough ski days to catch deep powder days until after age 55.

 

[raisingarizona]

I’ve been hearing a lot about this book recently

 

[Brownski]

Skiing in the East isn’t for everybody. It was a make work project for writers during the depression and the quality of the writing and the information is very very uneven.Trying to match the old descriptions against current maps is fun though and there are some really good old illustrations. Of course everyone should read Ski Bum by Warren Miller and his first memoir which was called something like Wine, Women & Warren or Wine, Warren & Skis or something like that. I can’t remember.

 

[Olin210]

Tracking the Wild Coomba- The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs

 

[DomB]

Ron LeMaster's Ultimate Skiing. He is a biomechanics person who consults for US Ski team.

You can't get everything from just reading it, but it is really good.

 

[Peter Minde]

Here's a couple in my library. Haven't read them cover to cover, I'll admit. What I find fascinating: Expert Skiing covers the gamut: alpine, cross-country, alpine touring and racing, xc racing, and jumping. Back in the 60s, in this country at least, NCAA skiers were all-rounders.

 

[Peter Minde]

 

[Warp daddy]

Many:
Lost ski areas of the northern Adirondacks

Lost ski areas of the Southern Adirondacks

White magic :the story of Snow ridge, by Bronny Davis

Peekaboo: the peekaboo Street nothing to hide book

***The complete ski handbook,

Cross-country inns, by Marge Lamay

***The Handbook of skiingby Karl Gamma

Top ski resorts of the world.by Arnie Wilson

The book of American skiing,by Ezra Bowen

Ski magazines 50 years of skiing in North America.

another one by Pierre Burton called Winter

***Instructional Book on pre shaped ski technique

The others are either historical or photo coffee table variety