Summer Skiing the Ring Of Fire

Here's a new vacation idea: why not ski the volcanoes from California to British Columbia? A group of guys hit the snow (and ash) covered slopes of Mounts Shasta, South Sister, Bachelor, Hood, Adams, St. Helens, and Garibaldi Provincial Park. Filmmaker Shawn Emery tosses in a little history (Mt. St. Helens erupting), a little travel blues (weather conditions keep the crew in a parking lot for a couple of days), and a little skiing. But the skiing doesn't hold a candle to a Warren Miller ski film and the travel part is frankly boring and workmanlike (we don't even get to really meet the group members). Regional libraries might want to consider since local teenagers will surely want to prove that, they too, are prime mental institution material; for others this is an optional purchase. (R. Pitman)