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As November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours, winter's occupation begins. Preparing for winter has its own rhythms, as old as our exchanges with the land. Of all the seasons, it draws us together. But winter can be tough.
It is a time of introspection, of looking inwards. Seasonal sadness; winter blues; depression – such feelings are widespread in the darker months. But by looking outwards, by being in and...
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Dancing With the Stars sensation Amy Purdy reveals the story of how losing her legs led her to find a spiritual path. When the Las Vegas native was just nineteen, she contracted bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: "You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, it's all going to make sense in the end." In that moment,...
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In the early 2000s, sixteen-year-old Todd Davison and his older brother Wade were living the Canadian hockey dream, playing together in the Western Hockey League, a stepping-stone for many future NHL stars. Todd seemed destined to be one of them, with his incredible speed, skill, and indomitable spirit, he had already defied all odds to become the smallest player in the league.
But after facing off against Sidney Crosby at the Canada Winter Games...
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Canadian former professional hockey player Norm Beaudin is best known for being "The Original Jet", the first to sign with the Winnipeg Jets Franchise in 1972. He played twenty-five games in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 335 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA). Beaudin also played for the Minnesota North Stars and the St. Louis Blues.
In “The Original”, Beaudin shares his chaotic life of over fifty years, from his $2 makeshift Zamboni...
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Once infected with the mushing virus, there is no cure -- there is only the trail Don Bowers learned the truth of these words as he lived his dream of running Alaska's grueling 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. With no mushing experience and little money, but with a spirit of adventure and support from friends, he started from scratch to put together a team. Over the next two years, he discovered that becoming a serious musher is not to be...
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La Parte 1 del libro aborda los matices y detalles de convertirse en esquiador, ya sea en las estaciones de esquí o en las montañas. La mayoría de los esquiadores probablemente necesitarán la parte 2 del libro, si esquían lo suficientemente duro y durante el tiempo suficiente. El autor comparte una miríada de errores cometidos, así como desventuras esquiando en las estaciones y en las montañas, lecciones ganadas con esfuerzo y de un valor...
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An Explicit Autobiography Depicting a Life Lived Differently!
Jack started to hate his mother at age six. He adopted himself at eight. Had his first affair with a friend’s European wife at 15. From that point onward, everything was about getting to Europe to chase women and ski, not necessarily in that order. This book reads like fiction until the reader realizes that it's a true account of how to meld fun, adventures, business and addictions into...
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Part 1 of the book goes into the nuances and details of becoming a skier, either in the resorts or in the mountains. Most skiers are probably going to need part 2 of the book, if they ski hard enough and long enough. The author shares a myriad of mistakes made as well as misadventures skiing in the resorts and in the mountains, lessons hard won and invaluable for any aspiring skier.
Part 2 summarizes knowledge gained over the span of 4 decades...
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Meet Chris and Marty-a married couple working on their careers, raising their only child, and chasing big adventures. At midlife, they suddenly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure, before their aging bodies and the warming continent of Antarctica further degrade. They ultimately decide it's time to pursue their biggest dream: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the...
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The life and athletic career of Steven Holcomb, an Olympic bobsledder who hid his encroaching blindness from his coach, sled mates, and the public until he finally told his coach, who led him to a revolutionary treatment that restored his eyesight to 20/20.
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For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a culture that dates back 10,000 years in Alaska. Williams competed in the Iditarod...
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"All her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is known as a place where people disappear--at least a couple thousand go missing each year. But the same vast and rugged landscape that contributed to so many people being lost is precisely what has gotten her found....
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