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Dick Dorworth

Born

in Reno, NV, The United States

October 16, 1938

Website

http://www.dickdorworth.com

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Dick Dorworth has skied and climbed in Europe, Asia, Alaska and South America; but he’s spent most of his life in the mountains of the West. He ski raced extensively from 1950 through 1965 and set the world record for speed on skis in Portillo, Chile in 1963. Dick taught and coached skiing for years,served as coach of the U.S. Ski Men’s Team, and later Directorof the Aspen Mountain Ski School.

Dorworth’s writing has appeared in Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Mountain Gazette, Men’s Journal, Climbing, New West, Mariah, Wild Duck Review, Summit, and Backpacker.

Today he is a reporter and regular columnist for the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, his home base. Most winter days he skis, either on his favorite mountain, Baldy, or in the bac ...more

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ENDGAME NOTES AND AIDS FOR HEALTHY LIVING

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

Read:

Terry Tempest Williams book “Erosion”, Salman Rushdie’s “Languages of Truth” and HH Dalai Lama’s “A Call for Revolution” for a wider perspective of humanity and Mother Earth and “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson for the more anthropocentric attitude.

Consider:

The Earth is somewhere around 4,500,000,000 years old. Humans and their ancestors have been w

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	Night Driving, the Invention of the Wheel & Other Blues: A Memoir 3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Turn: and other tales of skiing and skiers 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Turn 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climbing to Freedom: Climbs, Climbers & the Climbing Life 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Straight Course: Speed Skiing in the Sixties 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I found in myself the ability to give everything, to lay the whole show on the line. In that ability is hidden happiness, and all men have it, lurking somewhere..”
― Dick Dorworth, The Perfect Turn: and other tales of skiing and skiers

tags: give-up, happiness, skiing

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“Now I know that strange things happen to your body when it meets the snow at 100 mph, no matter what the position. In the twinkling of hitting the snow I regained a proper respect for speed. If you are inattentive, as well as somewhat stupid, you may breed a contempt for big speeds, forgetting respect through the grace of being atop your skis each run. No one on his back at 100 mph will ever after have contempt for speed.”
― Dick Dorworth, The Perfect Turn: and other tales of skiing and skiers

tags: crashing, respect, skiing, speed

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