Mountaineers Books Cross-Country Skiing: Building Skills for Fun and Fitness covers equipment and accessories, waxing for grip and glide, training and conditioning, snow camping, route finding, and avalanche awareness.

This instructional book will take you from how to fall (and how to get up again), through the classic and skate skiing basics (including stance, poling principles, and downhill tactics), to effective racing technique. It also takes up more advanced variations of the sport-freeheel, telemark, and ski mountaineering.

Specs

• Technique demonstrated in step-by-step photos
• Special learning activities reinforce instruction
• Sidebars for trouble-shooting common problems and matching technique to terrain and snow conditions
• Tips for engaging the family