I'd love this to be a series of links to pages telling you all you ever needed to know about snow, skiing, the area and the weather. However, there isn't that much material out there on the net, and it would be unfair to neglect all the fine material which has been produced in the past on paper - those trees shouldn't have died for nothing.

Skiing skills

Backcountry Skiing

Lito Tejada-Flores
Sierra Club Books 1981
ISBN 0 87156 287 1
The best all-round ski-instruction book I have seen for both nordic and alpine ski touring. This Supercedes "Wilderness Skiing" by the same author, and may in turn have been superceded itself - in which case the replacement is likely to be even better again !

Free-Heel Skiing

Paul Parker
Diadem 1988
ISBN 0 906371 67 8
An excellent book, especially if you plan skiing powder !

Total Telemarking

Brad English
East River Publishing Co. 1984
ISBN 0 915789 00 0
Perhaps orientated a little towards nordic skiers at downhill areas

Cross-country downhill and other nordic mountain skiing techniques

Steve Barnet
Pacific Search Press 1983
ISBN 0 914718 84 3
The only book in this list I don't have to hand - but comes recommended by other sources

Wilderness Skiing and Winter Camping

Chris Townsend
Ragged Mountain Press (McGraw Hill) 1994
ISBN 0 87742 397 0
A good introduction to more serious touring - camping and snowholing is unlikely to be needed in an area with so many hostelries

Ski Mountaineering

Peter Cliff
Unwin Hyman 1987
ISBN 0 04 440085 3
Excellent general manual - though for more serious mountains

Skiing Real Snow

Martyn Hurn
The Crowood Press 1987
ISBN 1 85223 021 5
Much more for off-piste downhillers, but good advice on poor snow

Mountain Navigation - Risks

Mountain Navigation Techniques

Kevin Walker
Constable 1989
ISBN 0 09 466690 0

Mountain Navigation

Peter Cliff
Peter Cliff 1990
ISBN 0 904405 48 6

Avalanche Safety for Climbers and Skiers

Tony Daffern
Diadem 1983
ISBN 0 9690038 4 6
A good general reference, though not too relevant to our area

Chance in a Million ? Scottish Avalanches

Bob Barton and Blyth Wright
Scottish Mountaineering Trust 1985
ISBN 0 907521 11 8
Particularly relevant to the sorts of snow we get in the UK

Guides to other areas

Ski Touring in Scotland

Angela Oakley
Cicerone Press 1991
ISBN 1 85284 054 4
Nordic tours, forests and easy hills

Ski Tours over Perthshire Hills

R Simpson
Ptarmigan Press
ISBN 0 9512762 0 4
Nordic tours - longer and remoter

Ski Mountaineering in Scotland

Donald Bennet & Bill Wallace (Eds)
Scottish Mountaineering Trust 1987
ISBN 0 907521 20 7
More serious tours, though some still suitable for nordic gear

Tales of a Cross-Country Skier

Guy Sheridan
Oxford Illustrated Press 1987
ISBN 0 946609 47 0
Not a guidebook at all, but some interesting ideas of places to go

Access

This Land is Our Land

Marion Shoard
Paladin Grafton Books 1987
ISBN 0 586 08473 8

And for when it all melts...

A Canoeist's Guide to the North-East

Nick Doll
Cicerone Press 1991
ISBN 1 85284 066 8

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