The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000 [Paperback]

Peter Hardy (Author), Felice Eyston (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Overlook TP (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879517395
• ISBN-13: 978-0879517397
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,921,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not so good for U.S. skiers......Great for European skiers, January 10, 2000

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This review is from: The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000 (Paperback)

This book is excellent, but it's geared more towards folks who ski in Europe than in the U.S. or other locations. Of the book's 575 pages, about 400 pages describe European ski resorts. Only 100 pages review U.S. and Canadian locations, and a very brief 10 pages cover South America, Australia, Japan and a few other places. The resorts reviewed may very well be the "Good" (from the title) resorts, but I'm going to be spending 95% of my time skiing in North and South America, so this guide is about 70% useless. I was expecting more detail on the U.S. resorts and perhaps even some descriptions of accessible spots that aren't so glamourous, such as Sante Fe (which isn't even mentioned). Again, let me just say that this book is quite good, but I wouldn't have purchased it if I'd known that so much emphasis was on European ski resorts. Potential customers should be warned about how the content is divided.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An indispensable consumer oriented guide to ski resorts, August 18, 2000

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This review is from: The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000 (Paperback)

I have spent most of my career in Europe, and have purchased several different editions of this guide over the past 10 years. Although there has been an inevitable "evolution" of the guide over the years, the one constant has always been the frank, sometimes almost brutally honest appraisals of all reviewed ski resorts. Essentially, it is a consumers' guide to ski resorts, reviewing all aspects of a resort, and highlighting both the strong points AND the weak points of each destination. It does not simply extoll the virtues of ever single resort, like one long advertisement, but it gives readers the opportunity to make an informed choice of destination based on the readers' personal preferences (and available finances!). It is true, the guide is very heavily slanted towards European resorts, but as pointed out in a previous review, this is because it is published in Britain, and has always been primarily aimed at a British readership.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Good Skiing and Snowbording Guide 2000, March 26, 2000

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This review is from: The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000 (Paperback)

I have lived in Europe for four years. This book has been my bible to ski resorts in Europe. The quick summarys to each resort are extremely accurate and helpful. If the author says that a resort is snow sure or has good nightlife you can trust him. I have purchased this book each year and find it to be the source on the large European ski resorts. I would agree that the US ski areas are not covered in detail but you must realise that the book is written for British skiers.