Ski America & Canada: Top Winter Resorts in USA and Canada, 2002 (Ski Snowboard America & Canada: Top Winter Resorts in USA & Canada) [Paperback]

Charles A. Leocha (Author), Susan Graham Staples (Editor), Hilary Nangle (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2001 | Series: Ski Snowboard America & Canada: Top Winter Resorts in USA & Canada

Now in its 13th edition, this is the Bible for planning a ski vacation to any of North America's destination winter resorts. Award-winning journalists provide unflinchingly honest evaluations of the skiing, lodging, restaurants, nightlife, day care and ski schools. Ski America also details the personality of each resort and lets readers know what each resort offers different skiers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...the top-selling ski guidebook in the United States. -- themestream.com October 31, 2000

Find out which resorts are geared for singles, lacking nightlife, food for beginners or perfect all-around. -- New Haven Register December 18, 1999

Provides the down-and-dirty basics on major resorts. If you want a continent-wide guidebook, this is the one. -- Ski Magazine October 1998

About the Author

In the mid-70s Leocha started a leisure magazine in Europe for Americans living abroad. His Travel Tips radio program was syndicated nationwide on hundreds of stations and he has appeared on TV across the country. He is the creator of the Escape Manual Travel Guides, Ski America & Canada, Ski Europe and Eastern Germany. He has written about travel for scores of newspapers and magazines ranging from Esquire, Newsweek and Travel and Leisure, to the top magazines serving the travel industry.

He knows major international airlines from the inside, has led tour groups, written vacation brochures, produced travel videos and crafted speeches for airline presidents. For more than two years, his column, Cheap Charlie, a combination of online and offline bargains, and consumer advocacy, has appears on Ticked!

Charles Leocha has been traveling since the age of two when his family moved from Alabama to Virginia. He is an Air Force Brat who has spent half his life abroad. He had the measles crossing the Atlantic in a troop ship, started school in Naples wearing a smock and bow, sang "If I Had a Hammer" on Red Square in ’68, criss-crossed Europe in a camper van, skied black diamond trails at every major resort in America and the Alps, did basic training in the fields of Kansas, rafted in Costa Rica, walked through the rubble of the Berlin Wall, rode horseback through Utah, caroused with flight attendants, and still runs the bulls every July in Pamplona religiously.

Leocha is best known for his guidebooks to mountain resorts, Ski America & Canada and Ski Europe. He is recognized as the expert on travel to European ski resorts and North American resorts. He also authored the Escape Manal travel book series covering most major countries in Europe. His guidebook content is licensed and cobranded by some of the top names in the Internet travel industry.

He also writes and speaks about the passenger rights. Since Travel Rights was first published five years ago, Leocha has become a national source of information about passenger travel rights.

His outdoor recreation Internet site, Resortspace.com, is focused on skiing in the USA and Canada and eventually expand to cover Europe and other international outdoor recreation opportunities.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: World Leisure; 14 edition (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915009749
• ISBN-13: 978-0915009749
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,396,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)