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Backcountry Skiing Blog Swimsuit Issue

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Still working on the "new" products for the Vintage Ski World online store. Amused today while scanning store promo shots from classic book Total Telemarking. Inside, none other than famed star of early hot dog freestyle skiing and well known telemark gal of the 1970s and 1980s, Penelope Street, enjoying some backcountry skiing spring corn snow near Crested Butte, and working on her tan — The book is chock full of other amusing photos, including bearded backcountry skiing maniacs from the Crested Butte tele revival crowd, and lots of racing photos from the infant days of telemark gate competition — when skis were skinny and so were the skiers — or something like that…

Posted by Lou on May 5, 2005 | Filed Under Book Reviews 

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Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information and opinion website. Lou's passion for the past forty years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about backcountry skiing and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the Fourteeners! Books and free back country information here, and tons of Randonnee rando telemark info.

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