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The Wealthy Ski Bum

Author : Sandro Rossini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book The Wealthy Ski Bum written by Sandro Rossini and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many people either freeze or dive in headlong when faced with planning something that's 10, 20, or 30 years out-like retirement. It's hard to think that far out when scheduling even tomorrow is a challenge. If you've done nothing to plan for retirement or have a plan but no idea if you're on track, this book is for you. Whether you're 20 or 50, you owe it to yourself to have a solid plan and to understand what it will take to retire.For this book, I chose to approach the topic of retirement planning with beginners in mind. I know that the typical jargon-loaded, data-driven finance guidebooks tend to turn people off. Then there's Bill, a retired grocery store clerk I happened to meet during a ski trip in the Sierras. His story and our conversation inspired me. He shared his steady approach to building a successful retirement. The everyday language he used to convey financial topics became the basis of this book.Read this book if: You have started your first job and know nothing about retirement accounts, budgeting, and personal finance and you want an easy-to-read guide.You have a retirement account but don't feel confident in your knowledge of investing and personal finance-and don't know if you're on track.You're not new to personal finance and may even have an advisor-but you find all the jargon used by the professionals confusing and intimidating.You don't like the topic and tend to zone out when you should be paying attention

Powder Days

Author : Heather Hansman
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488069050
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Powder Days written by Heather Hansman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Boston Globe Bestseller!* *An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick!* *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Award!* "A sparkling account."—Wall Street Journal An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists The story of skiing is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Blossoming from the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, the sport took hold across the country, driven by adventurers seeking the rush of freedom that only cold mountain air could provide. As skiing gained in popularity, mom-and-pop backcountry hills gave way to groomed trails and eventually the megaresorts of today. Along the way, the pioneers and diehards—the ski bums—remained the beating heart of the scene. Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana to West Virginia, Hansman profiles the people who have built their lives around a cold-weather obsession. Along the way she reckons with skiing's problematic elements and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of the existential threat of climate change.

In Search of Powder

Author : Jeremy Evans
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803228392
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Powder written by Jeremy Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture?a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: ?Ski as much as possible.? His snowboarding suffered when he left for a job in the Portland area; and when, at twenty-six, he suffered a stroke, he reexamined his priorities, quit his job, moved back to Tahoe, and threw himself into snowboarding. But while he had been away, the culture had changed. This book is Evans?s paean to the disappearing culture of the ski bum. A fascinating look at a world far removed from the larger culture, it is also a curious account of a passion for powder and what its disappearance means. ø Evans looks at several prominent ski towns in the West (including Crested Butte, Jackson Hole, Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Park City, and Mammoth) and the ski bums who either flourished or fled. He chronicles the American West transformed by rising real estate costs, an immigrant workforce, misguided values, and corporate-owned resorts. The story he tells is that of quintessentially American characters?rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own path?and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyle presents.

Downhill Slide

Author : Hal Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578050710
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Downhill Slide written by Hal Clifford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first investigative analysis of how corporate interests gained control of America's most popular winter sport, and how they are gutting ski towns, the natural mountain environment, and skiing itself in the desperate search for short-term profit.

Billionaire Wilderness

Author : Justin Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217122
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire Wilderness written by Justin Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming--both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality--to investigate interconnected questions about money, nature, and community in the twenty-first century. Farrell draws on three years of in-depth interviews with "ordinary" millionaires and the world's wealthiest billionaires, four years of in-person observation in the community, and original quantitative data to provide comprehensive and unique analytical insight on the ultra-wealthy. He also interviewed low-income workers who could speak to their experiences as employees for and members of the community with these wealthy people. He finds that the wealthy leverage nature to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder, and they use their engagement with nature and rural people as a way of creating more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. Billionaire Wilderness demonstrates that our contemporary understanding of the relationship between the ultra-wealthy and the environment is empirically shallow, and our reliance on reports of national economic trends distances us from the real experiences of these people and their local communities"--

Mountain Betty

Author : Hannah McCouch
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780812968415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Betty written by Hannah McCouch and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have thought that the glamour of working the slopes as a ski instructor would turn out to be just another snow job? After finishing college, joining the labor force, and unceremoniously getting canned, Betty Winters does what any self-respecting postgrad with an expensive liberal arts education would do: she defies her wealthy Connecticut parents and goes west to ski-bum around the Tetons. But after a year of the rambler’s life, Betty feels her enthusiasm beginning to wane. There’s nothing she loves more than the Jackson Hole vistas, the soft murmur of fresh powder, and the sheer pleasure of conquering a killer bump run. Plus she’s pretty partial to her hunky boyfriend, Jack. What she’s coming to hate, though, is the wake-and-bake ritual of their pot-filled mornings, the measly wages from her double shifts instructing on the slopes and moonlighting as a cocktail waitress at the Mangy Moose, and the feeling that for Jack, ski-bumming isn’t just a phase. And then there’s Jack’s wife, Muriel. . . . When tryouts are announced for a famous extreme-ski video series, Betty decides to enter: perhaps getting paid to ski the world is her calling. But all the training in the world can’t prepare her for what follows. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.

Final Resort

Author : Dana Mentink
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460304349
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Final Resort written by Dana Mentink and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Stanton has no need for love or tales of hidden treasure—until her uncle is kidnapped at her family's ski resort. Now she needs help from professional treasure hunter Luca Gage…the man she'd tried to forget. Signs point to a fortune hidden in the mountain, and Ava and Luca need to find her uncle before his assailant finds them. As their search for treasure draws them closer together, Ava must decide how long she'll run from love. She doesn't have much time, because something is buried under Whisper Mountain—and someone is willing to do anything to get to it.

Brat

Author : Andrew McCarthy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538754282
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Brat written by Andrew McCarthy and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member -- the inspiration for the Hulu documentary Brats, written and directed by Andrew McCarthy. Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

Freedom Found

Author : Warren Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963614469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Found written by Warren Miller and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pages with plates are numbered A1-A16 and B1-B16.

Ski

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004827
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness written by David Roberts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It’s also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened by oil and gas drilling, unrestricted grazing, and invasion by Jeep and ATV, is at the center of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s. In The Bears Ears, acclaimed adventure writer David Roberts takes readers on a tour of his favorite place on earth as he unfolds the rich and contradictory human history of the 1.35 million acres of the Bears Ears domain. Weaving personal memoir with archival research, Roberts sings the praises of the outback he’s explored for the last twenty-five years.

The Case for Marriage

Author : Linda Waite
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767910869
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Marriage written by Linda Waite and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for children when parents are unhappy, and that marriage is essentially a private choice, not a public institution. Waite and Gallagher flatly contradict these assumptions, arguing instead that by a broad range of indices, marriage is actually better for you than being single or divorced– physically, materially, and spiritually. They contend that married people live longer, have better health, earn more money, accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfillment in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit, or get divorced. The Case for Marriage combines clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, and provides clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as the foundation for a healthy and happy society. “A compelling defense of a sacred union. The Case for Marriage is well written and well argued, empirically rigorous and learned, practical and commonsensical.” -- William J. Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues “Makes the absolutely critical point that marriage has been misrepresented and misunderstood.” -- The Wall Street Journal www.broadwaybooks.com

Learning to Float

Author : Lili Wright
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767913140
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Float written by Lili Wright and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-07-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lili Wright is a thirty-something woman on the emotional lam. Faced with a choice between two men--Stuart, the steady veterinarian, and Peter, the dreamy writer--she climbs into her car and leaves them both behind. With only a borrowed dog named Brando for company and a map of twelve states in her pocket, Lili sets out on a road trip, hoping that by setting herself in motion she will find a way to settle down. Charting a course from Cadillac Mountain in Maine to the faded glory of Key West, Florida, she camps out on beaches and crashes on couches, in sketchy motels and even in a cop's trailer. She travels not only south, but also back in time, trying to figure out why previous relationships with a Nantucket waiter, a French tennis clown, a Utah ski bum, and others flared and fizzled. Along the way, Lili meets a string of unlikely gurus, including a well-worn shrimper, a vegan astrologer, and even a woman who marries herself. These and other unassuming strangers offer offbeat wisdom and guidance as Lili struggles to understand the nature of love, the voodoo of sex, and how couples can settle down without settling for. Between adventures, Lili tackles tough questions: Why does everything love touches turn risky? Does staying with the same person mean staying the same? Where does love come from, and where does it go? By journey’s end, this restless traveler begins to see how she can share her life with just one other person, and how love, like water, can make a body float. Lili Wright’s engaging memoir from the road updates the tradition of the picaresque traveler’s tale. With unflinching honesty and refreshing wit, she captures the torn emotions, comic misfires, and inevitable trade-offs felt by young people everywhere.

Navajo-English Dictionary

Author : C. Leon Wall
Publisher : [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Navajo-English Dictionary written by C. Leon Wall and published by [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs. This book was released on 1958 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.

Desert Chrome

Author : Kathryn Wilder
Publisher : Torrey House Press
ISBN 13 : 1948814374
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Desert Chrome written by Kathryn Wilder and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER "A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption—grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang." —LAURA PRITCHETT, author of Stars Go Blue Kathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures—their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West—and celebrates the animal nature in us all. KATHRYN WILDER's work, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai'i magazines. A past finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.

Aspen, Snow, Blow, and Bo

Author : Sherrie Lueder
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495360503
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Aspen, Snow, Blow, and Bo written by Sherrie Lueder and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Bohdan Mazur, brother of Ramona Singer (Star of RHONY) and his 20 year saga of being an outlaw ski bum.Bohdan Mazur was raised in the quaint hamlet of Staatsburg, New York. He recounts childhood memories of growing up in a wonderland with his father, mother and three sisters. Abundant with wildlife and surrounded by acres of woods with the Hudson River just a stone's throw away, Bo considered it “Paradise.”Bo's father, who worked for IBM was frugal to a fault, encouraged his son to follow an easier path. Urging him...“Never work for a big corporation son—be a criminal and join the mob!" Bo took it to heart. What started innocently enough, selling lemonade and golf balls at Dinsmore golf course quickly evolved into selling pot, hash, and even trying his hand at counterfeiting.Bo's life dream was to live in Colorado and be a ski bum. After high school, following his dream, he moved to Aspen and picked up where he left off. He expanded his sales to include cocaine, which quickly turned his business into a lucrative career, netting him tens of thousands of dollars weekly. Join Bo as he relives his adventures from Aspen to Mexico. Feel his emotion as he goes through several relationships and near death experiences and eventually gets busted. However, the story doesn't end there…his adventure continues on.

Ski A-Z

Author : KIMBERLEY. KAY
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9781782552338
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Ski A-Z written by KIMBERLEY. KAY and published by Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ski A-Z is an illustrated introduction to skiing. It demystifies the world of skiing, making it more accessible. This book explains what it can take years to discover, and many things that no one mentions to beginner skiers. Ski A-Z has valuable information and advice that can empower the reader to be able to enjoy the experience of skiing. This book will help anyone prepare for mountain experiences as its packed with useful tips and insights.