"This book is sweet and sad. It captures the spirit of being a young skier with the youthful energy, hopes, and uncertainty inherent to that stage of life. Further, the plot progression parallels the ski season itself and you can anticipate, for better and worse, certain aspects of the ski season coming to close along with a chapter of a young man's life. As someone who calls Copper (ahem, Silver) Mountain my home base, I delighted in the Copper references peppered throughout. It's a good and fast read, especially if you're a skier/rider and old enough to reminisce of younger days (not that it's only for older people, but the effect I suspect is more poignant for those of us old[er]-heads)."