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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent overview of a sport, and a good read too
Too many manuals are written without a sense of humour, but this one doesn't suffer there. The authors write in a way as to appeal and interest across all levels. This book is useful for an XC skiier to help hone their skiing, and useful to loan to doubting friends to get them interested.
Published on November 24, 1999 by Peter Clinch
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
For the novice to intermediate skier
Cross-Country Skiing by Ned Gillette, John Dostal will appeal to the active person wanting to take-up the sport of nordic skiing. Why 3 stars? Because skate skiing is covered only at a novice to intermediate level (see cover photo)and would be of limited use to the more advanced crowd.
Published on August 24, 2000
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
For the novice to intermediate skier,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cross-Country Skiing (Paperback)
Cross-Country Skiing by Ned Gillette, John Dostal will appeal to the active person wanting to take-up the sport of nordic skiing. Why 3 stars? Because skate skiing is covered only at a novice to intermediate level (see cover photo)and would be of limited use to the more advanced crowd.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent overview of a sport, and a good read too,
By Peter Clinch (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cross-Country Skiing (Paperback)
Too many manuals are written without a sense of humour, but this one doesn't suffer there. The authors write in a way as to appeal and interest across all levels. This book is useful for an XC skiier to help hone their skiing, and useful to loan to doubting friends to get them interested.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Still the best all-around cross-country manual,
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This review is from: Cross-Country Skiing (Paperback)
I've been a serious Nordic skier for about 20 years, getting out every possible weekend in the winter; serious, but sort of a permanent "upper intermediate". Along the way, I've collected many cross-country ski books and guides, from the 1960s to the present.
Gillette and Dostal's has remained my favorite, and overall the most useful. It was issued by the Mountaineers press, and is better than the Mountaineers later effort. A good practical guide for the novice through intermediate, and if you have only one, this is the one to have.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
worthwhile!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cross-Country Skiing (Paperback)
Ned Gillette was a talented and experienced xc skier -- he was on the US nordic team in the sixties and ran the xc center at Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, VT in the 1980's. He also skied around the base of Mt. Everest and wrote a book about that as well, it is called Everest Grand Circle.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The definitive reference for classic nordic skiing,
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This review is from: Cross-Country Skiing (Paperback)
Gillette died a horrendous death in the Hinda Kush. He left behind this book and one on a circumnavigation of Everest. This was the best book for nordic skiing up till about 1990, when the current telemark equipment evolution took the sport out of its nordic context into the realm of pure alpine skiing. For those who still are nostalgic for skiing on skinny skis, this book is still the best. For another classic, see Steve Barnett's Cross Country Downhill. For the latest on telemark skiing, read Paul Parker's book on Freeheel Skiing.
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