The Skiing Bucket List - by Patrick Thorne (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Take your love of skiing to the next level with more than 100 bucket list experiences that will transport you to iconic ski resorts, famous slopes, and cozy lodges around the world.

Around a century after the first skiers strapped wooden boards to their feet and started sliding down mountains, skiing has become a popular pastime across the globe. Author Patrick Thorne, aka "The Snow Hunter," draws on four decades of year-round research and writing about ski vacations, as well as visiting countless ski destinations across the US, to share with you the ultimate list of "must ski" trips and adventures.

Throughout this book, Patrick celebrates both the charming, family-run ski areas alongside the world-renowned skiing destinations, curating an entertaining array of bucket list goals that both causal skiers and die-hard powder hounds can achieve, including:

• Skiing the steepest ski runs in America
• Riding the world's highest ski lift
• Wearing a retro ski suit
• Night skiing under the Northern Lights
• Trying heli-skiing
• And so much more!

The Skiing Bucket List celebrates the thrill and passion of ski culture and ensures that even though the ski season may only last for a few winter months, the wonderful world of snow sports is available on your bookshelf year-round.

About the Author

Working as "The Snow Hunter," Patrick Thorne has spent all of his adult life as a full-time, year-round ski travel writer. He has edited ski magazines and websites, written for hundreds of publications around the world, and received multiple awards for his work. Since publishing his first book, The Essential Ski Holiday Guide, in 1984 at just 20 years old, Patrick has written or contributed to a dozen ski books, including the best-seller Powder.

In the 1990s, he created the world's first database of over 6,000 ski areas worldwide, which is used by many ski websites today. A lifelong snow obsessive, Patrick has closely tracked global snow conditions for four decades and runs SaveOurSnow.com, a site dedicated to fighting climate change.

Patrick first skied at age 15 and has since visited more than 250 ski areas worldwide. He lives and works on an eight-acre "croft" (small farm) in the Scottish Highlands, where he can ski in his own back field whenever there's an inch of snow. He and his wife, Sally, have three sons, two daughters-in-law, and one granddaughter--whom they ski with whenever possible. The family also includes two ponies, two dogs, two cats, eight hens, and 500 Christmas trees--none of which ski.

Through ancestry research and DNA testing, Patrick recently discovered he's distantly related to a rather more famous writer: William Shakespeare, likely his first cousin, 13 times removed.