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"As skiing evolves from mom-and-pop backcountry hills to megaresorts and all-access passes, the pioneers and diehards--the ski bums -- remain the beating heart of the sport. Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana...
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©2005
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"The Boys of Winter is the true story of three young Depression-era American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and ultimately tragic transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the fabled Tenth Mountain Division. Rudy Konieczny, Jacob Nunnemacher, and Ralph Bromaghin - three skiers from disparate geographic and economic backgrounds - forged names for themselves in the burgeoning sport of snow skiing during the late 1930s. With the world...
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[2021].
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"Ray Heid is a fourth generation local legend sharing stories of growing up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in the early 1940s. His pop owned a grocery store called the Boys' Market. They made deliveries to sheepherders' camps on the Continental Divide in vintage 1920 vehicles. He grew up competing as a four way skier and specialty big hill jumper traveling to all the big hills across the country in the 1950s from Lake Placid, New York to Leavenworth,...
8) Run or die
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2013.
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The ultrarunner and ski mountaineer discusses his love for the mountains and for pushing himself to the absolute brink of his endurance.
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2020
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"In a world framed by digital screens and talking heads, fifteen women quietly invited Barbe Chambliss into their lives to share intimate conversations about how they make peace. Sparked by a curiosity about how peace is actually created, this mediator and psychotherapist from Colorado zigzagged the globe to interview a willing pool of peacemakers where they live. In her book, Chambliss shares the remarkable stories of this wildly diverse cadre...
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©2024
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As a kid in Texas, Lou Dawson pored over his father's mountaineering books. So, after his troubled parents uprooted the family to live among Colorado's 1960s hippie counterculture,the obsessed teen seized the chance to explore magnificent peaks. When he discovered the addictive rush of powder snow and the mountains' dizzying heights, Dawson's lifelong affair with the all-consuming thrills of extreme sports began.
While longing for a soulmate and...