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Perfect Turn is a collection of short pieces that taken together paint a rich and intimate picture of skiing.
This book won the US Ski History Association Prize in,

In The Perfect Turn, ski history meets ski adventure in stories of great ski races and great ski racers, of the pursuit of the World Speed Record on skis, in memoirs of colorful, important, and simply remarkable skiers, in tales of winter backcountry expeditions through the remotest of snowy ranges.


Author Dick Dorworth blends action with reflection in the most thoughtful and literary ski writing to come along in ages.
This is a book by a skier who has lived it all, skied it all, and then thought about his sport in fresh and surprising terms.
This collection brings togetheressays that probe and reveal the very soul of skiing, and ends with a poetic piece of short fiction that gives this collection its title.


Published inby Western Eye Press, The Perfect Turn is available as a handsome trade paperback from the publisher www.
WesterneyePress. com or from amazon. com. And also an eBook, either in a Kindle edition from amazon, com or as an ePub from Apples iBookstore online,nd half more meditative and much superior to beginning tales of ski racing, However, last fiction essay a little creepy in my eyes, . Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe, Asia, Alaska and South America but hes spent most of his life in the mountains of the West.
He ski raced extensively fromthroughand set the world record for speed on skis in Portillo, Chile in, Dick taught and coached skiing for years,served as coach of the U, S. Ski Mens Team, and later Directorof the Aspen Mountain Ski School, Dorworths writing has appeared in Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Mountain Gazette, Mens Journal, Climbing, New West, Mariah, Wild Duck , Summit, and Backpacker.
Today he is a reporter and regular columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, his home base, Most winter days he skis, either on his favorite mountain, Baldy, or in the bac Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe, Asia, Alaska and South America but hes spent most of his life in the mountains of the West.
He ski raced extensively fromthroughand set the world record for speed on skis in Portillo, Chile in, Dick taught and coached skiing for years,served as coach of the U, S. Ski Mens Team, and later Directorof the Aspen Mountain Ski School, Dorworths writing has appeared in Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Mountain Gazette, Mens Journal, Climbing, New West, Mariah, Wild Duck , Summit, and Backpacker.
Today he is a reporter and regular columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, his home base, Most winter days he skis, either on his favorite mountain, Baldy, or in the backcountry, In summer he climbs. Night Driving, Dorworths first book, was published inby First Ascent Press, The Perfect Turn, a collection of Dicks ski writing, ranging from expedition accounts, to biographies of remarkable and particularly engaging skiers, to ski fiction was published by Western Eye Press inand immediately won the Ski History Association prize for the best new ski book of the year.
Dorworths next book, The Straight Course, a memoir of speed skiing adventures around the world in thes was published

the following year, also by Western Eye Press.
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