Category: Outdoor Recreation

By Hal Clifford

During this impassioned expos?, lifelong skier Hal Clifford unearths how publicly traded businesses won regulate of America's most well-liked iciness recreation throughout the Nineties, and the way they're gutting ski cities, the ordinary atmosphere, and snowboarding itself in a mostly futile look for non permanent profits.Chronicling the collision among Wall Street's call for for unceasing profit development and the delicate usual and social environments of small mountain groups, Clifford exhibits how the fashionable ski promotes its product as environmentally friendly--even invoking the phrases and symbols of such environmental icons as Ansel Adams and John Muir--while even as growing urban-style difficulties for mountain villages. He additionally uncovers the ways that inns are rigorously engineered to split viewers from their cash, very similar to topic parks.Clifford indicates an alternative choice to this bleak photo within the return-to-the-roots flow that's now commencing to locate its voice in American ski cities from significant Lakes, California, to Stowe, Vermont. He relates the tales of artistic enterprise people who find themselves moving keep an eye on of the ski company again to the groups that host it.Hard-hitting and thoroughly researched, Downhill Slide is necessary studying for somebody who lives in, visits, or cares approximately what's occurring to America's alpine groups.

By Picabo Street

Olympic Gold Medalist Picabo road is once more at the upward thrust, able to face the 2002 Olympics and inform her remarkable tale "Picabo Street...is the type of athlete for which the Olympics have been invented."­­USA this day "Street...has been functioning at Porsche speed...dominating women's downhill... [a] comeback queen."­­Glamour "Picabo rules... America's irrepressible ski champion."­­Skiing Olympic Champion Picabo road is golden once more the instant she burst onto the area degree on the 1994 iciness Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, 23-year-old pace demon Picabo highway ignited a fireplace of pleasure within the media and within the hearts of lovers that keeps to burn this day. Free-spirited and outspoken, road was once a brand new form of girl athlete and a brand new type of position version. highway her silver medal win with directly international Cup downhill titles­­a feat unequalled in American skiing­­and ultimately, the last word Olympic gold medal win in Nagano in 1998. yet good fortune had its fee. only one month after her gold medal win, highway careened astray in a race in Switzerland, snapping her left femur in , shredding the ligament in her correct knee, and leaving her destiny at risk. Now, after years of excruciating ache, grueling rehabilitation, and attractive own development, highway is coming round again, able to face the 2002 iciness Olympics and able to inform her inspiring tale. during this strong, sincere autobiography, road stocks her coming-of-age event, revealing how adversity formed a rebellious tomboy right into a champion athlete and compassionate lady, in concord along with her relatives and at peace together with her worry of failure. the following, for the 1st time, highway addresses the pressures exerted on her by way of her ski sponsors which can were partially responsible for her negative crash; the scandals surrounding the Salt Lake urban Olympic Committee; and the way she overcame a long, debilitating melancholy. within the culture of Lance Armstrong's it isn't in regards to the motorbike and Greg Louganis's Breaking the outside, Picabo: not anything to conceal is a poignant, intimate account of a lady pressured to rebuild herself­­body, brain, and soul. "I discovered what all ladies have to research: so you might kick ass, and also you should not be embarrassed about it."­­Picabo highway

By Kim Long

A mix of illustrated box advisor, truth ebook, and folklore assortment, "Hummingbirds" is a brand new type of natural world publication. This concise, illustrated guide provides a correct, informative portrait of hummingbirds of their common habitat, alongside with an exam in their courting to guy. America’s hottest chicken, the hummingbird can be designated to this hemisphere. local cultures—including Aztec, Mayan, and North American Indian—have lengthy respected this tiny creature for its impressive iridescent colours and fearless habit. as soon as killed by way of the thousands to supply feathers for eu models, hummingbirds—noted for being the smallest birds with the largest appetites—are now a favourite of yard fowl watchers in North the USA. "Hummingbirds" is a hassle-free consultant to those winged creatures, delivering an illustrated exam in their habit, biology, and person features. a pragmatic source for either the yard and the sector.

By Gerald L Findley

Книга Rope Works Plus Rope Works PlusКниги English литература Автор: Gerald L Findley Год издания: 2007 Формат: pdf Издат.:BookSurge Publishing Страниц: 230 Размер: 4,5 ISBN: 1419666568 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: zero) Оценка:ROPE WORKS PLUS is a sequel to and a variety of the author's unique booklet, ROPE WORKS. ROPE WORKS PLUS is a extra particular paintings that gives an outline of every knot, the knot's makes use of, different names while on hand, and informative reviews. The step-by-step pics of every knotboard are more advantageous by means of a narration describing every one step. in addition to the knots, hitches, splices, and lashings, ROPE WORKS PLUS additionally comprises chapters on netting, rope making, making and utilizing uncomplicated pioneering instruments, and pioneering types.

By Steve Smith

Hard-and-fast ideas for the inexact technology of duck and goose searching.

By Ed Koch

Research a wealth of data at the patterns-how they took place, the way to tie them, and most significantly, easy methods to use them to take trout.

By C. Boyd Pfeiffer

Trout anglers of all ability degrees can simply make those a hundred renowned and potent trout flies. All fly-tying tactics are good illustrated, supplying a valid base for the tasks indexed. textual content comprises lists of all fabrics and step by step directions. comprises styles for dry flies, rainy flies, nymphs, and streamers, with unprecedented images depicting the tying technique. The e-book is designed to lie flat at the tying bench bearing in mind quick access to directions and images during the tying technique

By David Lind

The earliest checklist of snowboarding is a 2,000-year-old pictograph from Rodoy, Norway. purely long ago 50 years, besides the fact that, have the best advances been made in snowboarding know-how. Now, The Physics of snowboarding unearths what fairly occurs whilst a skier hits the slopes, the place the snow is often close to the triple element -- the temperature at which the forged, liquid, and vapor stages co-exist.

Dr. Lind explains the mind-blowing phenomena that take place on the triple element. for example, why will a downhill racer lose the race if he turns into airborne unnecessarily, whereas the successful racer pre-jumps drops within the path? And why does the successful slalom racer by no means skid his skis? those and lots of extra slippery questions are spoke back within the Physics of snowboarding. you'll examine why alpine skis are designed otherwise from cross-country skis, how sorts of snow impact one's snowboarding, and why cross-country skiers who step out in their bindings, then off the tune, could fall as much as their hips in snow. An old viewpoint at the evolution of alpine snowboarding method is helping the reader grab the now-universal proposal of the carved ski flip and its relation to prompt turns. And the booklet explains, as soon as and for all, why ski teachers are ceaselessly telling their scholars to maintain their shoulders perpendicular to the autumn line.

By James Clarke

The Atlantic Pilot Atlas presents a whole consultant to the elements of the North and South Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Now revised for the 5th version, it comprises climate forecasting, international warming and typhoon avoidance details in addition to wind and present charts, wave heights, tropical cyclone tracks and delivery routes. Any skipper considering an ocean crossing must be aware of what stipulations he's prone to meet en course, so one can plan a secure and cozy passage, and this ebook offers precisely what's wanted. forty especially drawn colour charts express certain details at the winds, currents, gale frequencies, tough sea stipulations, typhoon tracks and prompt crusing routes for every month of the yr for these kinds of oceans.