My latest ski book, a collection of my very best essays and ski poems,
accompanied by stunning examples of timeless ski photography

Powder, powder and more powder. That's the story in Colorado and across much of the west. The perfect antidote to news stories of bailouts, meltdowns, and financial misbehavior that have grabbed so many headlines and so much of our national attention lately. A great day on skis is often all we need to recover an optimistic sense that all is well in the world. At any rate in our white sparkling midwinter world of snow and wind and joyous movement through space. All those hard-to-describe but ever-so-real feelings that I have been trying for years to put into words in my stories and essays and books. Now I've collected the very best of everything I have written about skiing in my latest book, This is Skiing.

This is Skiing, is another collaboration with my wife and true love, photographer Linde Waidhofer. This is a book I have been dreaming about for years. And voilà, here it is.

I know as well as any author how many compromises one has to make when working with mainstream commercial publishers. But this book is different; my favorite ski writing, essays and poems, combined with Linde's strongest ski images from around this snowy planet of ours, self published with no compromises about content or visual quality. (And yes, you have probably read many of these pieces on this web site over the years, but in my new book they are presented in a more exciting way.)

This book — really an art book about the essence of skiing — is the result of a breakthrough in printing technology on the part of an on-line, on-demand book printing outfit called blurb.com. Blurb can actually print, bind and ship stunning full-color fine-art-quality books when you order them. This is a revolution in fine book making.

This is Skiing is an 80-page, hard-bound, full color, 10x8 inch book. It sells for $45, a heckuva lot less than the cost of a lift ticket nowadays. To order your copy, simply click on the link below which will take you to the blurb.com order-and-info page for this new book.

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I am thrilled at the reactions of the first skiers to order this book. It should be a perfect gift for skiing friends, and the perfect way to stay in tune with the romance and mystery of our crazy wonderful sport when you are not out on the slopes.

Let me know what you think of This is Skiing.
Thanks,    Lito

In addition to my book, This is Skiing, in the ski writing section of this winter edition of my web site, you will find new poem about the tracks we leave in the snow and what they might, or might not mean. And in my ski instruction section I tackle an important but hard-to-pin-down subject, how to really come to grips with your new expert skills, how to convince your self that they are real. The purely psychological dimension of a true breakthrough on skis. Enjoy.

DVD versions of all three of my classic Breakthrough on Skis videos, are available — the visual quality is stunning. DVD really does justice to the 16mm film originals in a way that older VHS tapes never did. In DVD format my videos are also much easier to view and review.

Ordering is also easier than ever, as we finally have a secure online ordering system on this web site. Just click on the "order now" links on the book and video pages of this site.

If you prefer to order by phone, you can call
1 800 333 5178, toll free
(from outside the United States, you'll need to call
928 204 1599)

Think snow!

Stay tuned for a gallery of drop-dead ski photos from this book in future editions of this site.