{"product_id":"backcountry-skiing-skills-for-ski-touring-and-ski-mountaineering-mountaineers-outdoor-expert-series","title":"Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series)","description":"* For intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers\n* Includes trip planning, navigation, fitness, and avalanche safety information,\nin addition to techniques\n* Provides advice on how to make well-informed backcountry decisions\n\nMartin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountain backcountry. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning backcountry trips to perfecting turns in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors, using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more.\n\nIn addition to mastering techniques, Backcountry Skiing also features information on recent evolutions in ski equipment; avalanche safety tips; a primer on mountain weather and glaciers, trip planning tools, a discussion of emergency situations, nutrition and fitness advice, and winter camping basics.\n\nThroughout this guide, a special emphasis is put on being well-informed and making good decisions -- whenever you strap on your skis and skins and head out into the backcountry.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1594850380\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1594850380.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Martin Volken|Scott Schell|Margaret Wheeler\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41491965902906,"sku":"DBV.1594850380.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1594850380-0.jpg?v=1782669141","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/backcountry-skiing-skills-for-ski-touring-and-ski-mountaineering-mountaineers-outdoor-expert-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}