A fascinating story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele who were inducted into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1969. The detailed account gives an insite of their lives as skiers on and off the slopes. Great mix of discriptive writing and photos. Published 2007, 357 pages, paperback.
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Tracks of Passion is the story of the Eastern Sierra skiing scene from its beginnng in the 1930's to the development of present day Mammoth Mountain.
2008 hardcover, coffee table format, 336 pages, over 1070 photographs & illustrations.
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The ultimate history of skiing from a renowned insider. This is a definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of the ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. Hardcover
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620th Jackson Hole Hootenanny
This is the most classic collection of ski songs compiled and recorded by Bill Briggs, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame Class of 2008.
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Autobiography by Dick Barrymore, a ski film maker who tells the behind-the-scenes and humorous sides of his travels and his passion for the outdoors. Paperback, 335 pages. Dick was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 2000. Paperback
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National Ski Association's 1953-54 Annual by Roger Langley. Highlights are: "Fiftieth Anniversary of the NSA"; "Roy Sherwood Stars at Kulm"; "Inclined Transportation Systems"; "Old Timers of the Sierra"; memorial tributes to: Darroch W. Crookes, Robert L. Billings, and Margaret J. Neyland. From our archives and in good condition. Paperback, 256 pages.
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The Ishpeming Ski Club was first formed as the Norden Ski Club on January 24, 1887. Carl Tellefsen, a champion skier from Trondheim, Norway, was a key figure in organizing the local club as well as the National Ski Association, which was also formed in Ishpeming. This book tells the club's history from that time to the present and beyond. Paperback, 153 pages, by Burt Boyum and Jamie LaFreniere, published in 2003.
Retail price $17.95, now on sale for $14.95
Stunning visual history (black and white) of Midwest skiing that allows us to look back on the early times, places, and people that made this pastime into one of the most popular sports. Written by a committee from the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame & Museum and autographed by various local Honored Members featured in the book. Paperback, 128 pages, published in 2000.
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In the world of big-mountain skiing, Trevor Petersen was a legend. Appearing in countless films, magazines and photo shoots, his ponytail flying behind him, he was the very embodiment of the freewheeling spirit of extreme skiing in the 1980s and early ’90s. Then it all came to an end. On February 26, 1996, while skiing in Chamonix, France—the so-called Death Sport Capital of the World—an avalanche swept Trevor away. His body was found sitting up in the snow as if gazing at the mountains he loved.
Nearly a decade later, Trevor’s fifteen-year-old son, Kye Petersen, a rising star in his own right, traveled to Chamonix to ski the run that took his father’s life and, with the aid of some of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers, to become a member of skiing’s big-mountain tribe. There to chronicle Kye’s story was William A. Kerig, a filmmaker with a dream of his own—to create a film about the soul of big-mountain skiing and the band of mountaineers who ski the steepest, wildest, most dangerous terrain in the world.
In The Edge of Never, Kerig gives us not only a ripping adventure tale about a young man coming of age but a frank and subtle portrait of the extreme skiers who "live big" in the face of death and risk everything to experience the fullness of life in the mountains.
