Yvon Chouinard

Chris Jones

Dick  Dorworth

Lito Tejada-Flores

This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the climb, places it in the social and climbing context of the times, and reflects how this momentous trip influenced the lives of those involved, and in a greater context, the lives of so many others.

Reflections on the Lost Photos of the Third Ascent

Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968

A book of lessons on expert skiing, with an emphasis on key movements that take advantage of the modern shaped ski. Features carving and turning, going down steep slopes, and how to manage bumps and powder.

Say Goodbye to the Intermediate Blues

Breakthrough on the New Skis

Almost as good as time on the hill, Breakthrough on the New Skis approaches expert-level skiing with a step-by-step process that anyone can master. Learn how to carve, link turns, and relax. The author's innovative instruction helps skiers gain both skill and self-confidence.

Soft Skiing is unique among many how-to-ski-better books-full of practical, easy-to-follow and immediately effective ski coaching ideas, it's also a collection of personal memories by one of America's best known ski instructors, Lito Tejada-Flores. Lito is the author of Breakthrough On The New Skis, and the creator of the Breakthrough-On-Skis video series. He has never followed the "party-line" of official ski teaching orthodoxy, and his Breakthrough on Skis books are amongst the best selling ski instruction books of all time. In this book, Lito breaks new ground, focusing 100% on the art of skiing in a relaxed, energy-efficient manner, a style of virtually effortless expert skiing that is ideally suited to older skiers. In his easy-to-follow conversational style, Lito reveals the secrets of skiing all day, on all terrain, without fatigue, without a moment of struggle or stress. Actually this is a book for all skiers but more than anything it is a gift for older skiers looking for grace, elegance and efficiency rather than aggressive daring-do on the slopes. This is a book that will change skiing lives, expand skiing horizons.

The Secrets of Effortless, Low-Impact Skiing for Older Skiers

Soft Skiing

Bob Sehlinger

Peter Shelton

Seth Masia

The most detailed, authoritative guide available--written by experts on the southern and northern Rockies and the Cascades. Maps.

The Unofficial Guide to Skiing in the West

In this wonderfully innovative yet practical guide to skiing, acclaimed instructor Tejada-Flores explains how to break the bad habits of an intermediate skier and learn to ski even the steepest, bumpiest slopes with the grace and speed of an expert. Illustrations.

Lito Tejada-Flores

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