Title: New Wave Nordic Skiing!
(172 pages, B&W photos. $25 postpaid in the USA. Non-US orders pay excess postage, see button below.)
Wow! A new book about Cross Country Skiing! (Or XC, or Nordic…)
I just published this radical book on skiing. Order yours here! I also have a link for ordering a full-color PDF ebook version for $12.95. Both versions are also available on Amazon.
*WHY A NEW SKI BOOK?*
…Because winter has too many haters. And people don’t know the truth about XC skiing. The problem is misinformation about both! This book fixes that!
If you live in snow country, this book shows you fun new ways to enjoy winter — and to supercharge your XC skiing.
XC skiing is bigger and more fun than we’ve been told. Learn a dozen new techniques and approaches to enjoying skiing.
For one thing, climate change is real. Most of us experience less snow. But we can keep skiing! Low snow skiing is a thing. Most of us have a LOT more great ski days near where we live than we might think. It takes a new skills and attitude. Grass might be green in town, but there are certain places near you that likely have skiable snow! I teach 6 specific tricks for this!
Today’s gear is great for learning how to ski, for ski handling and for enjoying low snow conditions. We no longer need the deeper snow that track-setters require because we don’t need tracks for easy skiing.
The “mt-bike of skis” is the main improvement — it’s here to open the gates to skiing all sorts of awesome ungroomed singletrack.
The XC ski world has changed a lot: we’ve lost most of our retail shops and public classes. As a result there’s a ton of misinformation. We need to use the Web and mail-order. If you’re lucky to have a shop near you, make friends with them! Today, it’s a grassroots scene.
The ski industry doesn’t yet know about this “mt-bike of skis” MTXC concept. It is focused on groomed and resort skiing. That’s fine, but the snow world is a lot bigger than that, but there’s not enough money in it for them to do much promotion or explore alternatives. …Grassroots to the rescue!
This book is for newbies, for winter-haters, and for encouraging ski experts to consider different approaches to having more fun and skiing more when they think they can’t.
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Table of Contents
Intro:
Jump Right In! 1
Ski Party: A Casual Party Tour 11
Culture:
The Nordic Experience 13
Our XC Situation 47
Cross Country Potential 57
Thriving in Climate Change 63
Earnin’ Your Turns 69
Ski Party: Backyard Biathlon 77
Roots:
Trail Work 81
Training – Get Ready! 85
Social Work – Support The Sport! 93
Ski Party: A Low Snow Raid 95
Skills:
How to Ski for Normal People 101
What’s Up with Skate Skiing? 125
Basic Backcountry Concepts 141
Ski Party: A Spring Fever Epic 147
Gear:
Overview: Top 20 Innovations 153
What Gear is Right for You? 155
Food, Drink & Picnic! 158
Packs 160
Clothing 162
Protection 164
Overnighters and Epics 165
Multimodal 168
What’s Up with Waxing? 169
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