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Island Turns and Tours

Backcountry Skiing & Snowboarding - Strathcona Park & Vancouver Island
Wild Isle Guidebooks to coastal Vancouver Island BC Adventure

Island Turns and Tours
- first edition 2005

ISBN 0-9680766-6-1

Island Turns & Tours - 1st edition (2005)
Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding - Strathcona Park and Vancouver Island
by Philip Stone

Island Turns and Tours is a guidebook to a selection of the best backcountry skiing destinations on Vancouver Island.

Turns & Tours covers backcountry skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing with ideas for winter day trips, weekend tours and longer ski traverses. This guide is also an invaluable resource for hikers and climbers with useful information about snow travel, its challenges and the characteristics of the Island Snowpack.

Now Out of Print



Island Turns & Tours 2nd Edition is now available

A new, fully-updated edition is now available. The new book is in full colour with updated and new topographical maps, hundreds of photographs including dozens of aerial images to better illustrate the ski terrain and many more backcountry ski destinations. Like its predecessor the information is useful for winter/spring hikers and snowshoers but the focus remains firmly on skiing. 512 pages.

Island Turns and Tours, backcountry skiing on Vancouver Island


The digital eBook edition is now available
for Mac and iOS from the Apple iTunes Store>
And for PC & Android at Google Play Books>

There are no plans to release Island Turns & Tours 2 electronically.
Digital rights management is useless and copyright infringment is constant, sorry.

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