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| Keystone Colorado Ski Resort |
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Time spent with a Keystone Instructor can have a remarkable impact on your mountain and resort experience. Lessons can help you gain confidence and pride as you reach towards your potential as a skier or rider. |
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| Keystone Sports has a simple philosophy. Life is complicated enough; let us make your vacation easier by providing you with slopeside locations which allow you to get your gear and hit the slopes in no time at all. Keystone Sports provides you with an extensive ski and snowboard rental fleet. We offer a unique opportunity that allows you to pick-up, adjust, or drop off your equipment at our Mountain House Base Area or River Run Village locations. |
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| Ski.com |
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We are the ski vacation experts, offering personalized ski trips to the worlds greatest ski resorts either online or through our ski vacation travel specialists. |
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| Ski.com is the largest independent seller of ski vacations in North America and offers great packages or specials on a ski vacation that can include air fare, hotel accommodations, condominium properties, car rentals, ground transfers, lift tickets, equipment rentals, resort activities and much more. We are the ski vacation experts, offering personalized ski trips to the worlds greatest ski resorts either online or through our ski vacation travel specialists. Book the perfect ski vacation to one of the top 75 world ski resorts with ski.com. |
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What Is A Ski?
A ski is a long flat device worn on the feet designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow. Originally intended as an aid to travel in snowy regions, they are now primarily used for recreational and sporting purposes. Also, a ski may denote a similar device used for other purposes than skiing, e.g., for steering snowmobiles.
Snow skis glide on snow because downward pressure, as well as heat from surface friction, melts the snow directly under the ski. This creates a very thin layer of water directly under the ski upon which the ski glides. Ski wax is used to decrease drag by increasing the water repellent properties of the base. |
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| Suggested Reading |
Where to Ski and Snowboard
by Chris Gill and Dave Watts |
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Comprehensive - over 1,100 resorts covered, over 430 of them are described in detail. Descriptions of the terrain and evaluations for different levels of expertise. This book contains all the facts you need, down to ski school hours and prices, and lift pass information. Also included, is information on the best places to eat and the best apres-ski spots, as well as information on accommodation and getting there. They draw on hundreds of readers' reports as well as the editors' own experiences. |
Publisher: NortonWood Publishing; 11th Edition (15 Sep 2006)
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
Pages: 736 pages |
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| They are impartial - the book takes a no-nonsense, critical approach to resorts, with clear lists of their drawbacks at the start of each major resort description. The editors, Chris Gill and Dave Watts are the most experienced evaluators of ski resorts in the business. |
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Go Ski: Read It, Watch It, Do It (GO SERIES)
by Warren Smith |
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A pack of book and 30-minute DVD for anyone who want to learn about skiing. This work offers step-by-step coaching and inspirational photography. It helps you master techniques with your own virtual coach - from the snowplough to parallel turns, the 30-minute DVD uses 360 degree live-action freeze-frame graphics and slow-motion sequences. Clear step-by-step coaching and inspirational photography in the book will get you started or improve your skills. |
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (2 Nov 2006)
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
Pages: 160 pages |
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| Read it, watch it, do it with this innovative book and 30-minute DVD for anyone itching to get up off the sofa and go! This work is the fast track to great skiing. |
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The Story of Modern Skiing
by John Fry |
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This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport's development, including the emergence of the mega-resort and advances in equipment, technique, instruction, and competition. Maps locating major resorts, records of ski champions, and a timeline, bibliography, glossary, and index of names and places make this the definitive work on modern skiing. |
Publisher: University Press of New England (Oct 2006)
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
Pages: 380 pages |
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| Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing, and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and extreme skiing. He looks closely at skiing's relationship to the environment, its portrayal in the media, and its response to social and economic change. Skiers of all ages and abilities will revel in this lively tale of their sport's heritage. |
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