Dawson's Guide to Colorado Backcountry Skiing, Volume 1

The complete and authoritative guide to Colorado back country skiing and snow boarding centered around Aspen, Colorado. The book includes classic terrain on Independence Pass, the Elk Mountains (including Marble and Pearl Pass, and McClure Pass), and north into the inner reaches of the Fryingpan River drainage.

Lou Dawson has spent a lifetime skiing and climbing in the Aspen and Crested Butte areas of Colorado. In his youth he pioneered many classic rock, ice and mountaineering climbs with such legendary figures as Harvey T. Carter, Steve Shea, and Michael Kennedy. He was the first person to ski all of Colorado's fourteen thousand foot peaks, and his two volume gudebook to the Colorado Fourteeners is recognized by mountaineers throughout the country as the pre-emient guide to Colorado's highest peaks.