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X-Socks Skiing Socks - Men’s
For a killer all-around skiing sock that keeps your tootsies warm and dry, slip on the X-Socks Men’s Skiing Socks. They include an X-Cross bandage that wraps around your ankle to ward off pressure points and muscle cramps. The Air Conditioning Channel keeps your foot dry, even inside your sweaty ski boot. These ski socks are also made with silver, which fights odor and bacteria.

Product Features

• Material: 32% Acrylic, 30% wool, 5% polypropylene, 5% elastane
• Weight/ Thickness: Midweight
• Recommended Use: Skiing
• Warranty: 3 Years

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Mastering Mountain Bike Skills Increase your speed, control, and versatility on the bike. Mastering Mountain Bike Skills provides detailed technical instruction for all mountain biking disciplines:

Cross-country
Downhill
Mountain cross
Free riding
Dirt jumping
Urban terrain

With top pro mountain biker Brian Lopes as your teacher, you’ll learn how to handle the bike better than ever, in any conditions, across all types of terrain. Key tips and special photo sequences throughout the book add insight to Lopes’ world-class instruction.
Customer Review: Excellent
A fantastic source of information for anyone wanting to improve their mountain bike riding skills.
Customer Review: Great book of use for all mountain bikers
I found this to be an excellent book on mountain bike techniques. There are illustrated examples of all the skills you would want to know for all styles of mountain bike riding.
This is a book to work through. For example it starts with the basics like wheelies and manuals and progresses to bunny hops showing how they are related and why you want to know one technique before progressing to another.
Whereas Ned Overend’s book is XC race oriented, the techniques in this book as just as applicable for downhilling and freeriding as they are to XC and will help you whether you race or just like to ride for fun.
There is also a short section in the front covering the basics of choosing and maintaining your bike(s).

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SWL WOMENS SKIING LT
Description of SmartWool Skiing Light Socks - Women’sSmartWool was born with comfortable performance in mind. Their founders were New England ski instructors struggling to keep their feet warm. After trying a variety of materials, they rediscovered an age-old classic: wool. But while these socks may have been warm, they were itchy and shrank. So they worked on a process to make them soft and easy care. SmartWool was born on a simple tenet: keeping feet comfortable on the slopes.Features:1×1 rib cuffSmartfit systemLight cushioned shin and footFlat-knit toe seam70% wool, 28% nylon, 2% spandexHeight: over-the-calfCushioning: light cushioned

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Outdoor Navigation With GPS: Hiking, Geocaching, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Outdoor Photography, Backpacking, Mountain Biking Whether you’re hiking, fishing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, or taking a mountain bike ride in the backcountry, a GPS receiver can help you reach your destination and return safely–but only if you know how to use it! Outdoor Navigation with GPS, the most complete, easy-to-use GPS book available, is your guide to getting the most out of a receiver, from basic consumer advice to advanced techniques. Starting with essential definitions such as UTM coordinate systems, position formats, and map datums, and moving on to creating “waypoints,” and using your GPS with a computer, long-time GPS instructor Stephen W. Hinch breaks down the jargon and teaches you what you really need to know.

• An emphasis on practical applications over technical theory.
• Examples include illustrative screenshots from the newest receivers–from top companies like Garmin, Magellan, and DeLorme.
• Lists up-to-date Web resources for the rapidly changing technology of GPS and its uses.

Customer Review: Now in an updated second edition
Now in an updated second edition, Outdoor Navigation with GPS is a no-nonsense guide to basic GPS navigation skills, useful for all kinds of outdoor activities ranging from hiking, mountain biking, and fishing to geocaching, outdoor photography, canoeing/kayaking, and any other activity involving the negotiation of wild terrain. Written in a jargon-free style accessible to readers of all backgrounds, chapters cover how to program waypoint coordinates and reach them, prepare for and recover from disaster, read topographic maps, and much more. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams illustrate this “must-have” for outdoorsmen in the modern age.
Customer Review: GPS Beginner
Just what I needed to get started with my Garmin 76csx. Good price and arrived on time.

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