SHAPED BY SNOW

Defending the Future of Winter

Skier and debut author Ayja Bounous explores threats to the winters and watershed in the face of climate change and the far–reaching impacts of a diminishing snowpack on the American West—not only from ecological and economic perspectives, but also in regard to emotional and psychological health, as she realizes how deeply her personal relationships are tied to the snow–covered mountains of Utah's Wasatch range.
 

“A love letter and an elegy to a time when innocence could exist before the era of climate change . . . written with a muscularity of experience by a woman whose character was formed on the ski slopes in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.”
—TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, author of Erosion