One Book One Community Final Event - Author Heather Hansman

One Book One Community Final Event

Author Heather Hansman will speak to the community on Tuesday, August 29th at 7:00 p.m. in the *Jim Santy Auditorium at the Park City Library (1255 Park Ave., Park City, UT 84060). There will be a book signing after the presentation with books available to purchase provided by Dolly's Bookstore.

An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists

Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum Heather Hansman takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture from the perspective of a true insider. Hopping from Vermont to Colorado, Montana to West Virginia, Hansman profiles the people who have built their lives around a cold-weather obsession. Along the way she reckons with skiing's problematic elements and investigates how the sport is evolving in the face of the existential threat of climate change.

The ebook and audiobook of Powder Days are always available on Libby and we have copies of the book and book on CD available to check out at all of our branches.

Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer and a former editor at both Powder and Skiing magazines. She's Outside magazine's environmental columnist and a contributing editor at Backcountry Magazine. Her work has been included in The Best American Essays 2015. She is the author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West (2019, The University of Chicago Press) and Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow (2021, Hanover Square Press). She once won a bag of pasta in an Italian big-mountain-skiing contest (tenth place out of eleven women). She lives in Seattle, Washington.