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SNOLIFE
BY PETER KRAY
COFFEE-CINEMA-TABLE-SCOPE
HOT PLATES
Got snow? Enough to brag
about on your state license
plate? Utah does. So much
fluffy white powder that
“Greatest Snow on Earth”
is a registered trademark.
It’s also printed on every plate in the
state. A new look hit the streets at
Thanksgiving, with three-time Olympian
and Utah skier Heidi Voelker
arcing cold crystals all over Utah
pavement. “I can’t wait to stop at a
red light and notice that I am the
skier on the plate in front of me,”
Voelker said.
WIN A FREE
TRIP TO SNOWBIRD
If you haven’t skied Snowbird, then there are a couple
of on-mountain categories — deep powder, open faces,
endless bowls — there that will defi nitely expand your
sense of “Wow!” If you have skied Snowbird, you just
can’t wait to come back. Ski Press will send someone
to Snowbird this year. All you have to do is subscribe
to our free eNewsletters on skipressworld.com.
Chris Davenport’s awesome one-year
success story of climbing and skiing from
the summit of all 54 of Colorado’s
14,000-foot peaks — laying only the
second tracks ever made on some —
captivated the biggest names in bigmountain
skiing. Now it can captivate
you. With tabloid-sized photos of the
mammoth mountains Dav skied, sick ski
shots and some very visceral editorial,
Ski the 14ers reads with the visual
impact of a well-crafted documentary.
skithe14ers.com
FRESH LINES
The Big Mountain Bible
You could buy this book just for the pictures
— Holy Snow! The fact that Free
Skiing: How to Adapt to the Mountain
is also the defi nitive new encyclopedia
of off-piste skiing triples the value.
Along with all the deep-mountain info,
this book could also save your life. How
to pack, avoid avalanche, navigate, rope
up and even ski lead across a slope are
covered comprehensively. Add in the
avy-evaluation charts and conversion
tables, and there’s no argument against
this being a mainstay in the library of
every skier.
freeskiingthebook.com
Curious Pete
WHAT’S THE BEST PART OF LIVING
IN A SKI TOWN?
On a recent swing through Silverton, Colorado,
(where there’s one lift, two restaurants in the
winter and a few dozen serious skiers with a
Zen-like snow fixation, Curious Pete asked,
“What’s the Best Part of Living in a Ski Town?”
Jason Ebelheiser,
Alex Hunt
Lisa Branner
Hiroki Ide
Chicks dig it.
— Jason Ebelheiser,
Silverton Mountain Employee
Skiing.
— Alex Hunt,
Silverton Mountain Guide
Going out for a walk with one
dog and coming home with six.
— Lisa Branner,
co-owner (w/husband Klem)
of Venture Snowboards
Skinning out your door for
4,000 feet, then skiing
4,000 feet of powder
back home.
— Hiroki Ide,
Silverton resident
Stephanie Jane Reigh
Powder days. If you aren’t
here, then you can’t get them.
— Stephanie Jane Reigh,
owner Avalanche Cafe
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