The Technique of Travel : Page 131


No manual can explain the techniques necessary for each snow condition. Each skier must learn the hard way; surely he would rather do this. But a few suggestions may give direction to his experiments, and spare him bodily harm. The imperatives are:

Ski no faster than you can judge in advance thesnow texture you are about to hit. In descending a mountain, follow where possible the general route of ascent.Even though the interim hours will doubtless havechanged the snow, you will at least have a hint of whatto expect.

The worse the snow, the more evenly should theskis be weighted, and the more sure you should be that

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