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Books : Sports, Hobbies & Games : Winter Sports : Skiing : Practical Guides
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A NEW BRIT GUIDE! To find the Top 50 ski resorts in Europe we measured everything from off-piste quality to the nightlife.
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The completely revised 14th edition of Britain's leading annual guide to ski resorts. 1100 resorts covered in total, 450 in detail, covering Europe and North America in one volume.
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The European Alps offer some of the finest and most accessible ski mountaineering in the world. This book includes some of the ski tours of the central and eastern Alps; hut-to-hut tours that explore the Bernese, Urner, Albula and Bernina Alps of Switzerland, and tours through the Silvretta, Otztal, Stubai and Ortler regions of Austria and Italy.
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Essential apres-ski reading - a self-deprecating and deliriously funny Alpine adventure
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Presents information and advice for various aspects of backcountry skiing and winter camping. This work helps readers learn how to choose the right equipment, avoid hazards such as avalanches and extreme cold, build snow shelters, and have fun while staying safe and minimizing the impact on the wilderness.
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This fully illustrated guide to the top 40 ski and snowboard destinations in North America is a useful reference source for all keen skiers and snowboarders (whether a novice, improving beginner, intermediate, advanced or expert skier or rider). You can see what is being described with the help of the official trail maps for each ski area, over 350 photographs - all locally sourced and properly captioned and authoritative, in-depth reporting on the ski area.
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Showcases the very best of Switzerland, with its multinational culture and unique position at the heart of Europe. This guide covers places ranging from the magnificent mountain scenery, alpine villages, ski resorts and apres-ski, to emmental, chocolate and cuckoo clocks. It also includes 850 photographs.
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Product Description
Skiing with children can be one of the most memorable experiences of your life. Without some basic knowledge, however, it can be memorable for all of the wrong reasons.
Written by a mother who has spent a lot of her adult life living in ski resorts, and who has ‘seen it all’, this informative booklet will give you all of the inside knowledge you need to ensure that you and your children have fun and stay safe while on your ski holiday. Starting with the planning phase, right though to lessons and other ‘on slope information’, you will learn the tricks and hints that seasoned skiers employ to ensure an awesome trip for the whole family.
Included in this informative book are hints for:
Booking options, plus ways to avoid accommodation nightmares
Travel hints that can save you time, money and your sanity
Strategies for bad weather days
Options that will enable you to have plenty of ‘adult time’, comfortable in the knowledge that the kids are happy
Dressing strategies that will eliminate morning chaos
Buying versus renting options
Essential health and safety information
There really is nothing quite like the magic of a snow holiday. If you incorporate these simple strategies into your planning and preparation for your ski trip your children will have a ball, you will have a ball and before you know it you will be planning your next ski trip with confidence.
At the end you will find a clothing and ski gear checklist that is applicable to the whole family. There are some items of ski gear that you can compromise on and others that you must not. Here we will tell you why, with some cost saving suggestions that won’t compromise your comfort or safety.
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A guide to skiing in Europe that provides coverage on 10 countries and over 100 resorts. It offers recommendations for various abilities and ages along with essential travel information. It provides a breakdown of the five best trips, for scenery, families, groups, and couples.
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Writer, adventurer, ex-teacher and veteran of umpteen travel disasters, Will Randall has fallen off donkeys in Spain and out of canoes in the Solomon Islands, but none of this has prepared him for a disastrous season as a ski-bum with a posse of raucous, hard-drinking ex-students.Dismally unfashionable and hopeless at skiing, Randal finds that his stay in the charming Alpine backwater of mont St Bernard brings a whole host of new opportunities for domestic catastrophe, romantic rejection and public humiliation, including a stint as a chalet girl and an encounter with a Russian oligarch and his hair-raising entourage.Wry, self-deprecating and deliriously funny, ANOTHER LONG DAY ON THE PISTE is a rollercoaster of a travel adventure and essential apres-ski reading.