Comments on: New Backcountry Skiing How-To Book is Incredible

By: Glenda

Glenda — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:56:57 +0000

Backcountry skiing is pretty up to date..However, how many skiers are into glaciers??? If questions about navigation, one may want to check Dr. Jean Vives’ book “Ski Randonnee!”..He has an extensive chapter (25 pages) on the subject and other very specific areas for beginner and intermediate…
Just a suggestion Thanks

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:56:02 +0000

Martin, thanks for dropping by and good to get clarification on authorship. Multi author books present a dilemma for the reviewer, as it’s just incredibly awkward to include all the author’s names in the prose of a review. Thus, I stuck with just using your name in relation to the book and will have to continue with that to some extent, though I’ll try to work the other names in when I can. You all did indeed do an excellent job!

By: Martin Volken

Martin Volken — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:50:31 +0000

Lou – greetings from the recovering Pacific North
Wet…
I want to you thank you for the very flattering book review. The decisions made on content and writing were from the beginning a collaborative effort between Scott, Marge and myself. We built the outline, then chapters were dished out between the three of us. We went our ways and wrote them, then reconvened, edited each others work and kept on writing the next chapters. Scott contributed the vast majority of the pictures and I believe that they contribute greatly to the quality of the book. It is important to me that the readership knows this. We wrote the book together and with that will have to share praise, critique and critisism….equally.
Lou again, thank you.

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:51:37 +0000

Carl, thanks. With that said, probably the way to get it for Christmas is to just call Mountaineers Books, via 206-223-6303. I’m surprised it’s not at Amazon in time to ship for Christmas, you’d think a book they list would be in stock fairly quickly.

By: carl

carl — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:52:14 +0000

Amazon is now suggesting a ship date at the end of January for my pre-Order. Best order it somewhere else if you want it by Christmas.