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Hiking and Backpacking: Essential Skills, Equipment, and Safety Second Edition
Author(s): Victoria Logue (Author)
- Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
- Publication Date: 10 Jun. 2004
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0897325842
- ISBN-13: 9780897325844
Book Description
If you want to enjoy a well-planned, well-equipped day hike or backpacking trek, take charge of your outing with Hiking and Backpacking. The book demystifies the outdoor experience, proving that you don’t have to be a wilderness warrior to get back to nature and have fun. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned path master, the wealth of tips, techniques, and tricks will have you trailblazing like never before. Whether you’re out for an easy stroll, an overnight hike, or are tackling a long trail, Hiking and Backpacking: Essential Skills, Equipment, and Safety is the ticket to enjoying a safe and rewarding trail experience.
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From the Back Cover
If you want to enjoy a well-planned, well-equipped day hike or backpacking trek, take charge of your outing with Hiking and Backpacking: Essential Skills, Equipment, and Safety (formerly Backpacking: Essential Skills to Advanced Techniques).
Hiking and Backpacking demystifies the outdoor experience, proving that you don’t have to be a wilderness warrior to get back to nature and have fun. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned path master, the wealth of tips, techniques, and tricks will have you trailblazing like never before.
This book is divided into three major parts:
Hiking and Backpacking demystifies the outdoor experience, proving that you don’t have to be a wilderness warrior to get back to nature and have fun. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned path master, the wealth of tips, techniques, and tricks will have you trailblazing like never before.
This book is divided into three major parts:
Getting ready Details hike options and suggests ways to pick the best trails to fit your ability, time constraints, and interests, and choose your gear wisely.
On the Trail Keeps you on the trail with advice on pacing yourself, hydration, hiking in snow, navigating with GPS, using a map and compass, and much more.
At Day’s End Helps you find a good camp, set up your kitchen, and maintain and repair equipment.
Whether you’re out for an easy stroll, an overnight hike, or are tackling a long trail, Hiking and Backpacking: Essential Skills, Equipment, and Safety is the ticket to enjoying a safe and rewarding trail experience.
About the Author
Victoria Logue hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 1988. She has returned again and again to hike its many sections on day and overnight hikes and is the coauthor of several hiking books for the area. She lives in Georgia where she and her husband enjoy sharing their love of nature with their daughter, Griffin.
