Description
Contents: Buy Better – High Tech And Hot (The Olympic year ushered in a whole new crop of wonder skis, with spin-off performance for the recreational skier. Reports on 27 new skis for 1980); Boom At The Top (The new knee-high boots and how they’ll change the way you ski. Plus coverage of 18 other new boots for 1980); Together Seperates (Mix-and-match skiwear seperates are no contradiction, just an investment in good buying sense); The Tough Bunch (Roughing it? These nine top-of-the-line new bindings are built to take it); Why Your Bindings May Be Obsolete; Does Your Gear Need Replacement (Is it time to swap, scrap or stretch your skis, boots and bindings for another season?) Where To Ski – Munchkins, Pi And Captain Friendship (<9>SKI’s exclusive skiing odyssey to the People’s Republic of China); The Affordable Alps (A report on three strudel-stuffed hideaways in Austria and six spectacular vacation spots in Switzerland to fit any budget) Special Features – Call It Wunderwenzel (Tiny Liechtenstein produced two World Cup and Olympic champions, a national hangover and new meaning for the phrase “small wonder”); Competition 1980 (Who won what?); The Amateur Hours (Chronicling the Olympics events at Lake Placid, including the parts you didn’t read about or see); The Trashing Of Lake Placid; The Skiwear Designers Departments – Letters; In This Issue; Ski Clinic; Speak out; Rx And The Skier; Ski Life; Ski People (Hub Zemke); Hot Spots (Vail); A Skier’s Journal; Hot Spots (Stratton/Bromley); Ski People (Ned Gillette); Hot Spots (Crested Butte); Ski Cross Country; We Tried It; Workbench; Last Run
Issue: September 1980
Condition: Very Good