Stephen Hultquist

How to Live at a Higher Level
...or Just Ski Better
It's easy to live. It's harder to live well. It takes new insights. Everything you learn, you learn from stories. They might be age-old stories that teach life lessons or they might be a story that a friend tells you about what happened to them. It's stories that teach.

If you are anything like me, most of what you learned in school, you tried to learn from textbooks. They are boring! It's all you can do to stay awake while you read them.

It's likely that if you learned anything about life, you learned it from your mom, your dad, or your grandpa outside looking at the surface of a fish pond, looking across a field, or looking at freshly fallen snow. They told you a story, and you've never forgotten it.

Open Your Heart with Skiing is full of stories. Stories about skiing and about life. It can show you things about skiing that you haven't seen before. It can show you things about life that make sense in a new way. It can even transform your experience.

And you don't have to be a skier to get a lot out of it.

Whether you are an Olympian or a person who will never ski, there is something for you to discover from its pages:

Testimonials for Open Your Heart with Skiing

"Skiing can produce such varied experiences. "A chance to meander along the flow lines of gravity, a struggle against the world's best, or an opportunity to test your own limits. The wide-open vistas of a blue sky day, or the cosseted eiderdown of the 'white room' in a snowstorm. Serene solitude, an intimate gathering of friends and relatives, or the biggest party imaginable. Chest-bursting exhilaration, or humiliation and pain. Vivid life, or the cold, black nothingness of death. "In offering us all these modes of existence, skiing is in one way unique, but in another way just an extension of the nature of our sojourn on this planet. What Steve has done so brilliantly in this book is to link everything together. "For those of us lucky enough to call skiing part of our lives, these are connections that somehow we all sensed - but could never have put into words like this book does. For those yet to discover the world of winter whiteness, this book gives a tantalizing glimpse into another universe that is worlds apart from, yet intimately related to, 'normal' life."

Martin Bell
Four-Time Olympian, Four-Time British Overall Alpine Champion,
Journalist, television analyst, and ski coach
The Yellowstone Club, MT

"Skiing offers challenges for all of us, from Olympic medalists to the novice taking her first hesitant slides down freshly groomed snow. Skiing also helps us to see more about ourselves than we might otherwise know. In this book, Steve shows us some ways of finding those connections and expanding our joy in skiing and in life. Read it and strengthen your experiences."

Deb Armstrong
Olympic Gold Medalist,
U.S. Ski Team member, and
Professional Ski Instruction Association Alpine Team member
Steamboat Springs, CO

The book Open Your Heart with Skiing: Mastering Life Through Love of the Turns is available on Amazon, at Barnes and Noble, and at your local independent bookstore. Feel free to purchase from any of those great retailers at any time.

However, for a special gift to yourself or a favorite skier, you can purchase an autographed copy of Open Your Heart with Skiing directly. There are two distinct options that you have: Personally inscribed or autographed. If you choose personally inscribed, I will write a personal message to you or anyone you would like as an inscription in the book. Be sure to put any special instructions for the inscription into the Special Comments field during checkout. If you leave it blank, I'll inscribe it to you.

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