Few can beat Frank and Brittany Walker Konsella when it comes to qualifications for writing a backcountry skiing guidebook. The Crested Butte couple is among the elite few who have climbed and skied all the state’s fourteeners. But their new book — “Backcountry Ski & Snowboard Routes Colorado,” by Mountaineers Books — isn’t a boasting ode to peak bagging and the burliest lines in the state as much as a manual, offering a geographically diverse array of easy to demanding lines that can be skied from December through May. Frank and Brittany KonsellaBrittany and Frank Konsella atop Mount Wilson in 2010. “We tried to make a guide that would accommodate all levels of backcountry skiers, from beginners to experts, with extra-credit ideas that might entice people with a little more knowledge to take it to the next level,” said Brittany, a former schoolteacher who in 2011 joined Aspen’s Christy Mahon as one of only two women to climb and ski all 54 of the state’s fourteeners. It’s the kind of guidebook that will land in backpacks and on coffee tables.

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