This is a tough genre to stand out in after Wild got published. I enjoyed the premise of trying to ski 4 million vertical feet in a year. It's ambitious, it's interesting, and the author comes to some big personal "aha" moments along the way about being yourself while being female. That said, the writing didn't really grab me, and there wasn't quite as much depth to the narrative as I was expecting. I'd recommend Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube for a similar feminist-in-cold-weather-soul-searching theme, but with more thoughtfulness and better writing in my opinion.