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Controlled Fall: Collected Ski Stories — $9.99
Controlled Fall: Collected Ski Stories is perhaps the most curious compendium of ski tales ever assembled.
That they are the product of one brief career in ski “journalism” is perhaps frightening. The pieces assembled here – some slightly used by prior appearances in the pages of SKI and Skiing Heritage, some sparkling new - are categorized under such headings as Why We Ski, Thoughts about Equipment, and The Greg Stump Songbook. The selections range in style from brief meditations to howling yarns and include 24 unpublished lyrics and 7 recipes of cloudy provenance.
If you were raised properly, you know better than to mention price, so any of you who were raised properly may skip the remainder of this paragraph. The rest of you – I note you’re all still here – please read on. Unless you find a way to steal it, Controlled Fall will run you a mere $9.99. I know for a fact that SKI magazine wants ten bucks for a subscription (who says Jackson does no research?), and it doesn’t include a single article by Jackson Hogen. When compared to Controlled Fall and its 73 pithy entries, unfettered by bleating ads, adorned by glorious full-color photography, well, we don’t want to rub it in, but I trust you see that the book is a MUCH BETTER VALUE than the magazine, any magazine, take your pick.
Now that we’ve decided that Controlled Fall is a great, American way to spend $9.99, let’s see who else thinks so! Here are a few vividly imagined quotes from some of the famous people who could have or could one day in the near future read Controlled Fall:
“Jackson’s book puts the “self” in self-indulgence.” Jean-Paul Sartre
“Promise you’ll never tell anyone I booted off the lift.” Kim Jong-Il
“After I read Jackson’s book I raced out and got a penis reduction and now my back feels so much better.” Greg Stump
“Who the hell is Jackson Hogen?” Warren Miller
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Snowbird Secrets: A Guide to Big Mountain Skiing — $9.99
Already hailed as “among the most important skiing books yet written,” Snowbird Secrets is more than just a guide to one of America’s iconic ski resorts.
Snowbird Secrets spins 22 tales of big mountain skiing, each built around an idea that the authors believe is central to the sport. “Guru” Dave Powers, whose daily blog—gurudavepowers.com —informs thousands of skiers as to the up-to-the-minute conditions at Snowbird, has logged an average of 130 days a season on this mountain for 36 years. Jackson Hogen can’t claim the same amount of mileage, but he compensates with a deep background in ski product development and ski journalism. Snowbird Secrets encapsulates the accumulated wisdom of two fully engaged minds devoted to a lifetime of skiing.
Among the skills that readers can glean from Snowbird Secrets is the fundamental awareness of how wind and weather affect different aspects of the mountain, so they can find the conditions they seek. Examples of other concepts Secrets explores include Drifting, Vibrations, Music, Trees and Trust. For each idea explored in Snowbird Secrets, Hogen and Powers take the reader on a run (or runs) that demonstrate the utility of the lesson it teaches.
While the terrain described in Snowbird Secrets is mostly expert-caliber, its lessons apply to skiers of all abilities. Taken as a whole, the instruction in Secrets provides a framework for a mental approach to accessing elite ski ability in very short order.
Perhaps the single biggest differentiator between Snowbird Secrets and all other books about the sport is the former’s applicability to life beyond skiing. The ideas that make great skiing possible are values that also illuminate the meaning of life itself. Whether you, like the authors, have skied all your life, or if you’ve never seen snow before, the lessons of Snowbird Secrets will resonate long after you have closed its cover.
