HOW TO SKI
AND
HOW NOT TO
BY
VIVIAN CAULFEILD
PHOTOGRAPHS BY K. DELAP
THIRD AND REVISED EDITION
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
597-599 FIFTH AVENUE
1914
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
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PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION
The alterations and additions to this book inits present form are due partly to fresh practicalexperience; partly to adverse criticism of whichI now see the justice; and partly, as I freelyadmit, to the picking of other people’s brains.Since this book was published I have read for thefirst time books on ski-ing by Zdarsky, Bilgeri,Luther, and Arnold Lunn, and have re-read thoseof Richardson, Rickmers, Paulcke, and Hoek.As a result I have had to alter a good deal ofmy theory and some of my practice, and toalter and enlarge this book accordingly. Toall the above-named authors, therefore, I ammore or less indebted, and feel correspondinglygrateful.
In adopting an idea one can seldom help alteringit more or less, and if in the body of thebook I have made few direct acknowledgments,it has been from no lack of gratitude, but ratherfrom a doubt whether the originator of the ideawould be gratified at its development or indignantat its distortion.
I must however make special acknowledgmentsto Ober-Leutnant Bilgeri. From his exc