Adventure Books by Dr. Jon Kedrowski

Unleash your inner explorer with this inspiring guide to Colorado’s best high-country hiking adventures. Seasoned guide and mountaineer Dr. Jon Kedrowski highlights his favorite hikes to 70 spectacular backcountry lakes. In a useful “choose your own adventure” style, each hike features a lake as well as  250 options for extensions, such as climbing a nearby peak or following a high-ridge traverse, allowing you to craft your own adventure and to build up to more challenging ones. With this comprehensive guidebook and a map, get ready to discover some of the most beautiful and less-traveled spots in Colorado!

• 70 hikes and climbs throughout Colorado’s nine mountain ranges.
• Over 250 separate options and explorations climbing peaks and traversing high ridge link-ups.
• Looped routes, so you never have to retrace your steps.
• Valuable trail advice, such as climbing classifications, weather tips, and safety considerations .
•  Special foreward written by legendary Colorado 14er FKT and record-setting mountaineer Andrew Hamilton.
  

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Travel around Colorado with ski mountaineer Dr. Jon Kedrowski as he guides you to some of the best ski descents the state has to offer. Classic Colorado Ski Descents, ​a Colorado Backcountry Skiing Guidebook, showcases 70 ski descents entries on Fourteeners, Thirteeners, and more. 

There are a total of nearly 300 ski options in this book that covers Colorado's seven major mountain ranges.  Inside there are routes that range from peaks with gentle terrain, to tree glades, deep powder, ridge lines, steep faces, and couloirs. Each peak description includes stats and details on skiable vertical, elevation gain, and round-trip mileage, as well as easy-to-follow directions to the trailhead.​ 

The full-color photos match the maps, routes and descriptions.  This guidebook is all you'll need for a lifetime of backcountry exploration in Colorado's mountains!  Dr. Jon has also climbed and skied various lines from the Colorado 14ers and many of the 13ers featured in the guidebook and has the inside knowledge to lead you on unlimited adventures. Special photography contributions from iconic photographer including John Fielder, Steve House, Brad Burgtorf, and Ben Conners!

Winner of the 2019 Bill Berry Literature Award for the Far West Ski Association!

This book chronicles a project never before attempted: mountain geographer Dr. Jon Kedrowski slept on the summits of all 54 Colorado Fourteeners, staying on the summit from sunset to sunrise. John Fielder, a Colorado photography icon, wrote a special forward, with special opening quotes from Bob Boeder, Diane Van Daren, and Baylor Head Basketball Coach Scott Drew.

In addition to the 2019 book award, this book also won two 2013 Book Awards:  the Colorado Book Award finalist for Adventure Picture Book category and the IPPY Bronze Metal for Western United States!

As a special online deal, click on the 'Buy Now' button below and author Dr. Jon Kedrowski will sign and personalize the book and ship it directly to you!

This book brings back geographer, adventurer, and ski mountaineer Dr. Jon Kedrowski where he chronicles the adventure of spending the night on the summits of twenty of the highest Cascade volcanoes, along with showcasing great skiing from the summits. 

As an expert in the field of mountain geography, geology, weather, and climate, Dr. Jon combines his unique skills of backcountry camping and extreme skiing in this exciting new project. Jon explores and shares the solitude and ruggedness of these giant icons of the Pacific Northwest.  

Featuring striking and rarely seen photographs and expert analysis, Dr. Jon takes the reader on a journey to the tops of Mount Shasta, Lassen Peak, Mount Scott, Mount Thielsen, Mount Bachelor, South Sister, Mount Hood, Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, and Mount Baker. Along the way, Dr. Jon discusses meteorology, weather and climate, volcanism, as well as ski lines and ski potential.

The new book includes a special prelude by well-known ski mountaineers Chris Davenport and Ted Mahon, opening quotes by many other notable outdoor enthusiasts, and a forward by meteorologist Chris Tomer. 

Winner of the 2018 Bill Berry Literature Award for the Far West Ski Association!

Winner of the 2016 PubWest Silver Medal for Sports/Adventure/Recreation book design!

As a special online deal, click on the 'Buy Now' button below and author Dr. Jon Kedrowski will sign and personalize the book and ship it directly to you!