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IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN ZERO: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
Author: Allan Weisbecker
ISBN-10: 1585420697
ISBN-13: 9781585420698
Published: 2001-03-19
Publisher: Tarcher
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Book Description:
A chronicle of surfer and photojournalist Weisbecker's two-year journey south from the Mexican border to solve the mystery of a friend's disappearance.In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his lifelong surfing companion, Christopher, who had vanished into the wilds of Central America. Weisbecker traveled south from Mexico through seven countries before discovering his friend in a primeval rain forest, living a shockingly corrupt antithesis of their mutual dream of an Endless Summer perfect-wave paradise.Intimately describing the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding Christopher, In Search of Captain Zero is the story of Weisbecker's quest. This rollicking memoir of friendship and adventure is one part Road Fever and one part Heart of Darkness: a nonstop tale of territorial local surf-gang wars and all-gear-and-no-skill European dilettantes, of daring sea rescues, twentieth-century piracy, and a jungle road trip to the place that lies beyond the end of the road.
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Nordic Walking for Total Fitness
Author: Suzanne Nottingham
ISBN-10: 073608178X
ISBN-13: 9780736081788
Published: 2009-12-10
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Description:
Take the next step toward a stronger, leaner, healthier physique with Nordic Walking for Total Fitness. From selecting equipment to creating your own personalized workout, it is your complete guide to the power of Nordic walking. In Nordic Walking for Total Fitness, Nordic walking experts Suzanne Nottingham and Alexandra Jurasin show you how to make the most of every walk. You'll learn how to choose the perfect pole, master proper form and technique, and supplement your routine for the ultimate total-body workout. Nordic Walking for Total Fitness includes six essential workouts from short, quick walks to longer, more challenging workout excursions. You can tailor each workout to achieve your fitness goal, or you can select from a menu of sample programs developed specifically for cardio health, strength, power, flexibility, sport cross-training, and full-body fitness. If you're ready to hit the path with power and purpose, Nordic Walking for Total Fitness is for you. It's like having a personal trainer striding alongside you every step of the way.
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Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series)
Author: Martin Volken
ISBN-10: 1594850380
ISBN-13: 9781594850387
Published: 2007-11-30
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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Book Description:
Martin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountains. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning wilderness trips to perfecting turns in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors, using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more. In addition to mastering techniques, Backcountry Skiing also features information on recent evolutions in ski equipment; avalanche safety tips; a primer on mountain weather and glaciers, trip planning tools, a discussion of emergency situations, nutrition and fitness advice, and winter camping basics. Throughout this guide, a special emphasis is put on being well-informed and making good decisions-whenever you strap on your skis and skins and head out into the backcountry.
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Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
Author: Kimball Taylor
ISBN-10: 0976538105
ISBN-13: 9780976538103
Published: 2005-08-01
Publisher: Dimdim Publishing
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Book Description:
From the big-wave surfers of Tahiti and the salty hurricane chasers of New England, to the cliffs of Molokai's infamous leper colony and the Wild Coast of South Africa's Transkei Homeland, Return by Water brings light to surfers' lives around the world with amazing sense of place and deft character portraits of the famous, ordinary and irascible surfer alike. Follow surf journalist Kimball Taylor on his travels through South Africa, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Indonesia and more. The journey is as transforming and definitive as any surfer's first trip away from home.
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Stormrider Surf Guide Central America & Caribbean (Stormriders Surf Guide)
Author: Bruce Sutherland
ISBN-10: 0956245501
ISBN-13: 9780956245502
Published: 2010-02-15
Publisher: Low Pressure Pub Ltdinc
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Book Description:
The Stormrider Surf Guide Central America and the Caribbean takes a journey through the region sandwiched between North and South America. Beautifully presented maps, photos and up-to-date, reliable surf information make this Stormrider Surf Guide a must have item for any trip to Central America and the Caribbean. Includes Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, The Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, St Martin&St Barts, Barbuda&Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados,Trinidad and Tobago.With proven high-quality design includes detailed maps and more than 200 superb color photographs. Integrated text, symbols, and maps contain crucial, otherwise unavailable information. More than 100,000 surfers have bought The World Stormrider Guide Volumes 1, 2 and 3.
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Snow Sense: A Guide to Evaluating Snow Avalanche Hazard
Author: Jill A. Fredston
ISBN-10: 0964399407
ISBN-13: 9780964399402
Published: 1999-05
Publisher: Alaska Mountain Safety Center
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Book Description:
"Snow Sense" is the best-selling, easiest to read, most informative avalanche safety book available. Intended for skiers, snowmachiners, snowboarders, climbers and others who work and play in avalanche country, "Snow Sense" is written to help backcountry travelers learn to recognize, evaluate, and avoid snow avalanche hazards. Avalanche accidents do not happen by accident; they happen for particular reasons. "Snow Sense" addresses the critical terrain, snowpack, and weather variables that make it possible for a slope to avalanche along with the human factors that allow most accidents to happen. If you don't want to become an avalanche victim, read this book.
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55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska
Author: Helen D. Nienhueser
ISBN-10: 0898867916
ISBN-13: 9780898867916
Published: 2002-05-01
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska
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Ultimate Skiing
Author: Ron LeMaster
ISBN-10: 0736079599
ISBN-13: 9780736079594
Published: 2009-10-13
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Description:
Break through to the next level of ski performance! Renowned instructor, coach, and ski technique expert Ron LeMaster takes you beyond The Skier's Edge by improving, expanding, and enhancing that seminal work. The result, Ultimate Skiing, will help you master the mechanics of great skiing as never before—explaining how it's done, showing how it looks, and describing how it feels.LeMaster has made Ultimate Skiing a comprehensive manual on ski technique. Learn how skis interact with the snow and how best to manipulate your skis, boots, and poles on the steepest slopes, in monster mogul fields, and through the deepest powder. Technique tips and kinesthetic cues help translate the sensation of each movement.Throughout, LeMaster incorporates his one-of-a-kind, full-color photo montages and 3-D diagrams to take you onto the slopes and into the action. These phenomenal images capture some of the world's greatest skiers while illustrating the correct techniques for every condition and terrain. To get the most out of your skiing potential, you need the ultimate in ski instruction. You need Ultimate Skiing.
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A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski
Author: Erin McKittrick
ISBN-10: 1594850933
ISBN-13: 9781594850936
Published: 2009-10-19
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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Book Description:
The adventures of a young, idealistic couple who choose to reduce their world down to just two small packs and the next 100 yards in front of them. In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human power. This is the story of their unprecedented trek along the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean--a year-long journey through some of the most rugged terrain in the world-- and their encounters with rain, wind, blizzards, bears, and their own emotional and spiritual demons. Erin and Hig set out from Seattle with a desire to raise awareness of natural resource and conservation issues along their route: clear-cut logging of rainforests; declining wild salmon populations; extraction of mineral resources; and effects of global climate change. By taking each mile step by step, they were able to intimately explore the coastal regions of Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska, see the wilderness in its larger context, and provide a unique on-the-ground perspective. An entertaining and, at times, thrilling adventure, theirs is a journey of discovery and of insights about the tiny communities that dot this wild coast, as well as the individuals there whom they meet and inspire.
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The California Surf Project
Author: Eric Soderquist
ISBN-10: 0811862828
ISBN-13: 9780811862820
Published: 2009-04-22
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Quit your job, pack your boards, and surf your way down the California coast....Sound like a daydream? The California Surf Project is the fully illustrated travel diary of two surfers who took this trip of a lifetime. Chris Burkard, a talented photographer, and Eric Soderquist, a professional surfer, cajoled their Volkswagen bus along Highway 1 from the Oregon border to the Tijuana Sloughs and discovered everything the Golden State's legendary coastline has to offer. Relive their incredible adventure of surfing perfect waves, sharing campfires with total strangers, and keeping the bus running with duct tape and prayers in more than 200 gorgeous photographs, soulful text, and a professionally produced thirty-minute DVD.
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