Category: Books and Movies

The Best Backcountry Ski Books for Pure Pleasure

Top Pick – Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America

Fifty Classic Ski Descents was put together by Chris Davenport, Art Burrows, and Penn Newhard. It details fifty incredible ski lines in North America with just enough pictures, statistics, and write-up to get your heart pounding.

The book that inspired Cody Townsend’s The Fifty Project, this is the ultimate coffee table book for skiers and ski mountaineers. The only problem is that if you’re in North America, it probably includes a handful of lines in your zone, and you may become obsessed with some of them.

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Are you too much of a ski bum to pay to watch ski movies? Need some Youtube entertainment to get your fix after a night of apres? Tired of short clips and want to watch full-length films instead?

Fear not. We’ve found the best ski movies available for free in full-length on Youtube for your viewing pleasure.

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Not too long ago you would’ve been hard pressed to find a well-produced ski documentary worth watching, but with the proliferation excellent skiers and filmers, the ski documentary genre has experienced some big growth in the last decade.

We’ve assembled this list of the top ski documentaries around so that you can sit back, relax, and enjoy the cream of the crop.

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Let’s be honest, no matter how much of a die-hard skier you are, sometimes you just don’t want to watch ski mountaineers taking themselves and the sport seriously. Luckily, Hot Dog brought comedy to the ski movie world and Shane McConkey (AKA Saucer Boy) kept it alive.

If you want to enjoy yourself watching some ripping skiers having a laugh, read on – here are some of the top hilarious ski movie comedies of all time.

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Gone are the days when backcountry skiers could only watch films of extreme skiers dropping out of helicopters.

With the burgeoning popularity of backcountry skiing, and the increasing prevalence of environmentalism, backcountry ski movies have become increasingly available and enjoyable.

Keep the stoke alive with this list of our favorite human-powered ski movies.

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