Download or read book Ski Tales They Learned to Ski at Monster Mountain written by Julianne Weinmann and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SKI TALES, They Learned to Ski at Monster Mountain is the first in a series of illustrated outdoor snow riding adventure books written for children and adolescents aged 4-14. Illustrator, Jerry Wilson, brings out the personalities of the characters in his action-packed style. The reader meets the diverse group of quirky neighborhood friends who have the love of snow in common. It's a "snow day," and they have the chance to learn to ski like the oldest of the group, Daron. The setting, "Monster Mountain," is a fictional resort with plenty of vertical thrills for skiers and snow-riders of every level. Trail names like "Frankenstein" and "Yeti," reflect the monster theme of the resort. To bring realism to the tale, the author draws from her personal skiing experiences and from observing ski school classes and ski racing training sessions at a local ski resort. The plot takes the reader through the experiences of this group of beginner skiers, as they learn the basics of technique and tactics, including stance, turning, and stopping. When Daron (the oldest and a somewhat experienced skier) violates the Responsibility Code, he separates from the group and a search ensues. The story encourages courteous and cautious skiing and introduces a few basic ski lessons and the concept of ski racing. The book teaches the National Ski Areas Association's "RESPONSIBILITY CODE" in a humorous and entertaining way and the Code is reprinted at the back of the book for reference. The book is an ideal gift for new skiers. It encourages their interest in learning to ski and emphasizes safety and courtesy to preserve the beauty and enjoyment of the sport for all.
Download or read book Skiing is Believing written by Nancy Peck Cook and published by Oxygen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Alice is a little girl with big dreams to ski down a beautiful mountain, like the skiers that she sees on TV. That dream becomes reality when her parents bring her on a ski trip to Vermont where she experiences the challenges, the joy, the adventure and the feeling of accomplishment when she gets to the bottom. Is the magic of snowflakes for real? Do they lift you up? Alice's adventure to the ski mountain gives her the confidence to believe in the mystical magic of snowflakes and believe in herself with the encouragement of her ski instructor. Skiing is Believing is a story of adventure, magic and a realistic tale of a little girl learning how to ski. Read along and imagine the magical snowflakes falling, giving lift and inspiration to Alice as she experiences down the mountain! Confidence with care and making dreams come true is what this story hopes to inspire young children to achieve great things, all because they believe! About Nancy Peck Cook Alice is a little girl with big dreams to ski down a beautiful mountain, like the skiers that she sees on TV. That dream becomes reality when her parents bring her on a ski trip to Vermont where she experiences the fear, the joy, the adventure and the feeling of accomplishment when she gets to the bottom. Is the magic of snowflakes for real? Do they lift you up? Alice's adventure to the ski mountain gives her the confidence to believe in the mystical magic of snowflakes and believe in herself with the encouragement of her ski instructor. Skiing is Believing is more than a story about a little girl learning to ski; it is a story of adventure, magic and believing in one's abilities. Read along and imagine the magical snowflakes falling, giving lift and inspiration to Alice as she races down the mountain! Confidence with care and making dreams come true is what this story hopes to inspire young children to achieve great things, all because they believe! Skiing is Believing is her first of many books. Visit her website for more information about her books and her adventures in the mountains and beyond at www.nancypeckcook.com.
Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from Elsewhere written by Borry Porter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a second foray into the author's life experiences as she re-introduces readers to her extended family and friends who were first encountered in her previous book Tales from the Seaside. This selection of tales are taken from other family holidays which span the author's lifetime. Readers accompany the family as they gallop across Europe, go north of the border and attempt to exchange their water-skis for snow skis, deal with mother and daughter drunken escapades, excitable vibrating beds, being marooned in a dinghy after losing the oars and the author's first (and only) bull-fighting experience. More fun and frolics experienced by all.
Download or read book Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth written by Jim Steenburgh and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah's powder lives up to its reputation. Steenburgh also examines ski and snowboard regions beyond Utah, making this book a meteorological guide to mountain weather and snow climates around the world. Chapters explore mountain weather, avalanches and snow safety, historical accounts of weather events and snow conditions, and the basics of climate and weather forecasting. Steenburgh explains what creates the best snow for skiing and snowboarding in accurate and accessible language and illustrates his points with 150 color photographs, making Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth a helpful tool for planning vacations and staying safe during mountain adventures. Snowriders, weather enthusiasts, meteorologists, students of snow science, and anyone who dreams of deep powder and bluebird skies will want to get their gloves on Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth.
Download or read book Short Stories written by Irwin Shaw and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in these pages—maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher’s soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Download or read book The God of Skiing written by Peter Kray and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downhill Slide written by Hal Clifford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first investigative analysis of how corporate interests gained control of America's most popular winter sport, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural mountain environment, and skiing itself in the desperate search for short-term profit.
Download or read book The Snow Skier s Bible written by Peter Shelton and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monster written by Steve Jackson and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of serial killer Tom Luther that’s “one of the best books short of the famous Ann Rule works” from the New York Times bestselling author (True Crime Book Reviews). On a snowy winter evening in 1982, twenty-one-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator’s violence had only just begun. After ten years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap. In this gripping new edition of a true crime masterpiece, acclaimed author Steve Jackson recounts the intriguing pursuit and long-awaited conviction of a charismatic, monstrous psychopath, one who remains a suspect in three other crimes—and has never given up hope of escape. Includes sixteen pages of dramatic photos Praise for Steve Jackson “He writes with both muscle and heart.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell “A born storyteller. He makes you sweat . . . and turn the page.” —Ron Franscell, national bestselling author of Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1936-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book For the Love of It The Mammoth Legacy of Roma Dave McCoy written by Robin Morning and published by Blue Ox Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of It: The Mammoth Legacy of Roma and Dave McCoy traces the lives of Roma and Dave McCoy, visionary founders of world-renowned Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, from their singular childhoods through their eventual building of the first chairlift in the Eastern Sierra. The nostalgic narrative non-fiction book depicts California skiing in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s and illustrates the power of dedication, upbeat attitudes, and teamwork.Born in 1915 in Southern California, Dave McCoy grew up living in tent camps with his parents while his father built early California roads. During the Depression, Dave's family fell apart and he was sent to live with grandparents at the Wilkeson Coal & Coke Company in Washington. There he learned to fly fish, tie flies, and ski. After graduating from high school, Dave hitchhiked south and settled in Independence, a small town in Califonia's Eastern Sierra where he spent his time riding a Harley Davidson, fly-fishing, skiing with the Eastern Sierra Ski Club, and working for the LADWP, eventually as a hydrographer. In 1941, after being relocated tp Bishop, another small Eastern Sierra town, Dave married Roma Carriere and became the hydrographer at the Long Valley Dam on Crowley Lake. His essential job and a severely broken leg kept him from fighting in WWII. To compensate, he built rope tows to welcome servicemen home from the war, setting the stage to pursue his passion for skiing, building upskis, ski racing, and ski race coaching. In the 1960s, Dave coached nearly 20 ski racers to Olympic squads, (including Charlotte Zumstein, Jill Kinmont, Linda Meyers, Penny McCoy, Dennis McCoy, Robin Morning, and others) while developing Mammoth Mountain into one of the most successful ski areas in the United States. By the 2000's he had built 26 chairlifts, two gondolas, and several buildings to facilitate skier amenities. With his kind and generous leadership skills and his dedication to having a positive attitude made, Dave pursued his life dreams while his wife Roma, stayed by his side. For the Love of It shares the back story of Dave and Roma's legacy.
Download or read book White Planet written by Leslie Anthony and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski world’s Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution. With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock ‘n’ roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.
Download or read book Bear Tales for the Ages written by Larry Kaniut and published by Larry Kaniut. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collector of bear lore for nearly half a century, author Larry Kaniut has chosen these tales and legends for their focus on the wisdom of bears and the strength of the human spirit in encounters with them. An Alaskan legend himself, Larry brings together 28 amazing stories of encounters with this four-legged wonder of the woods, spanning the time period from 1816 to 1999.
Download or read book Backcountry Skiing Snoqualmie Pass written by Martin Volken and published by Falcon Press Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides the reader to great skiing away from the crowds and provides the information every skier will want for fun and challenging high-country adventures.
Download or read book Ski Weekend written by R. L. Stine and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a perfect setting-for murder!.
