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Lois and her friend describe cross-country skiing, including appropriate dress, equipment, ski waxing techniques, and such basic moves as the diagonal stride, step turn, herringbone, and snowplow. ... Read more

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Wonderfully written
This book is awesome. I read it first at my local library but someone had torn out some key pages! And so desperate to know what it was that I was missing, I started checking around for this book. Much to my surprise, I found it here. This book single handedly helped me to learn how to XC ski. I'm no expert but we dont have any places locally that teach it so I had resorted to videos and books. None of them compared to the simplicity of this book. You can truly tell how the writer enjoys XC skiing and conveys that to you. Not making you feel like you have to be an expert or a scientist to be able to understand the sizing/equipment usage etc. He explains all the types, pros and cons of them, and even how to size. I bought my used skis on ebay since I knew I'd be a recreational skiier. I can't wait to use my skiis again. It's so much fun. ... Read more

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A useful guide.
If you can't get up to the "Dacks" or Vermont to go backcountry skiing, you might be intrested in this book.It is a short guide that points you in the direction of the skiable trails of the Catskill mountains.

I first saw this book at a BB we were staying in in Fleishmans and later found the book for sale at a store in the Catskill corners complex.Over the last 15 years I have been keeping notes in my trail guide of the Catskills with possible ski runs.This book has confirmend some and led me to others.

Not enough emphasis on down mountain skiing to suite me but still a useful guide. ... Read more

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING / NEUROMUSCULAR TRAINING WITH JEFF NOWAK (Set Includes 4 Audio Cassettes, 1 Video And Personal Training Guide Manual, In Plastic Storage Case. ... Read more

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Discusses the techniques of cross-country skiing, the equipment and its upkeep, cross-country races and how to prepare for them, and champions of the sport. ... Read more

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Introduces in text, photos, and diagrams the techniques and equipment of cross-country skiing. ... Read more

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This guidebook for Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley details the opportunities for both cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in and around the towns of Aspen, Ashcroft, Snowmass Village, Basalt, Carbondale, Redstone, and Glenwood Springs. The book features route descriptions for both snowshoeing and skiing, details and maps of Nordic track systems, uphill snowshoe routes on local ski mountains, route suggestions by ability level, accurate directions to trailheads and access points, maps of all routes, snowshoe/cross-country races and events, and more. Cross-country skiers will find many options for track skiing and Nordic touring. Snowshoers will find local tours on old roads and trails, recreational climbs on ski mountains, and trips into areas not otherwise easily accessible in the winter. ... Read more

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Still the best all-around cross-country manual
I've been a serious Nordic skier for about 20 years, getting out every possible weekend in the winter; serious, but sort of a permanent "upper intermediate". Along the way, I've collected many cross-country ski books and guides, from the 1960s to the present.
Gillette and Dostal's has remained my favorite, and overall the most useful. It was issued by the Mountaineers press, and is better than the Mountaineers later effort. A good practical guide for the novice through intermediate, and if you have only one, this is the one to have.

For the novice to intermediate skier
Cross-Country Skiingby Ned Gillette, John Dostal will appeal to theactive person wanting to take-up the sport of nordic skiing. Why 3 stars?Because skate skiing is covered only at a novice to intermediate level (seecover photo)and would be of limited use to the more advanced crowd.

The definitive reference for classic nordic skiing
Gillette died a horrendous death in the Hinda Kush.He left behind this book and one on a circumnavigation of Everest.This was the best book for nordic skiing up till about 1990, when the current telemark equipment evolution took the sport out of its nordic contextinto the realm of pure alpine skiing.For those who still arenostalgic for skiing on skinny skis, this book is still the best.Foranother classic, see Steve Barnett's Cross Country Downhill.For the latest on telemark skiing, read Paul Parker's book on Freeheel Skiing.

excellent overview of a sport, and a good read too
Too many manuals are written without a sense of humour, but this one doesn't suffer there.The authors write in a way as to appeal and interest across all levels.This book is useful for an XC skiier to help hone theirskiing, and useful to loan to doubting friends to get them interested.

worthwhile!
Ned Gillette was a talented and experienced xc skier -- he was on the US nordic team in the sixties and ran the xc center at Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT in the 1980's.He also skied around the base of Mt. Everest and wrote a book about that as well, it is called Everest Grand Circle. ... Read more