Featuring veteran hiker and popular author Adrienne Hall’s signature fusion of expert advice, confidence-building anecdotes and insider information, The Essential Backpacker is the ideal beginner’s guide for the millions who hit the hiking trail for the first time each year. Focusing on the basics but also providing a taste of advanced backpacking techniques, this clear-cut, handsomely illustrated handbook is packed with resources and allows novices to progress comfortably from debut day-hike to ambitious long-distance trek.
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The Essential Series--Your Trusted Guides
As a self-sufficient backpacker, you can go wherever your feet will take you--to a wildflower meadow, a mountain summit, or the shore of a moonlit lake. The Essential Backpacker provides a clear and thorough education in backpacking, guiding you through hiking skills, what to take and how to carry it, and how to deal with the challenges of the trail. Other features include:
- Planning a weekend or long-distance hike
- Backpacking solo or with companions--including children and dogs
- Route-finding skills and safety techniques
- Tips on equipment, camping, food preparation, and minimizing your environmental impact
Featuring veteran hiker Adrienne Hall's fusion of expert advice, confidence-building anecdotes, and insider information, The Essential Backpacker is the ideal guide for anyone planning to hit the hiking trail for the first time. This straightforward handbook focuses on the basics while providing a taste of advanced backpacking techniques. And it's packed with the resources hikers need to progress comfortably from day hikes to long-distance treks.
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Adrienne Hall began backpacking at age 11. She has hiked in the Rocky Mountains, the Virginia Blue Ridge, and Europe, and through-hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Colorado Trail. She spent a season as a backcountry ranger in the Alaska Denali wilderness, and is the author of Backpacking: A Woman's Guide and A Journey North: One Woman's Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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The best book on backpacking.,
This review is from: The Essential Backpacker: A Complete Guide for the Foot Traveler (Paperback)
I have many books on backpacking, this one is the shortest and the most useful. This book gets right to the point and is chock full of information, while it seems other books say a lot of things such as "find out what poison ivy looks like" or "learn how to use a compass" this book actually gives you the information. It also has great (b&w) pictures which are relevant and helpful. Whether you are planning a dayhike or something much longer this book will be a valuable resource, I think it's the best of them all!
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The Essential Backpacker: A Complete Guide for the Foot Traveler is a good reference book for beginning and more experienced backwoods trekker/campers. Keeping your backpack contents within a reasonable carry-weight and still have everything you need to be reasonably comfortable and also contain emergency items for the unexpected, is a challenge that needs to be met for each planned trip.
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bivy bag, top pouch, hygiene kit, bladder bag, outfitting stores, pack fly, synthetic bag, trekking poles, loaded backpack, seam sealer, fuel bottle, sleeping mattress, gentle terrain, stuff sack, national scenic trails, backpacking trip, other hikers, iodine tablets, rain pants, ground cloth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The first part of this course will prepare you for day hiking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bivy bag, top pouch, hygiene kit, bladder bag, outfitting stores, pack fly, synthetic bag, trekking poles, loaded backpack, seam sealer, fuel bottle, sleeping mattress, gentle terrain, stuff sack, national scenic trails, backpacking trip, other hikers, iodine tablets, rain pants, ground cloth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Appalachian Trail, United States, Colorado Trail New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Essential Wilderness Navigator: How to Find Your Way in the Great Outdoors, Second Edition by David Seidman in Copyright, and Back Matter
- How to Shit in the Woods: An environmentally sound approach to a lost art by Kathleen Meyer on page 66, and Back Matter
- Leave No Trace: Minimum Impact Outdoor Recreation by Will Harmon in Back Matter
- Hiking with Dogs: Becoming a Wilderness-Wise Dog Owner by Linda Mullally in Back Matter
- The Joy of Family Camping by Herb Gordon in Back Matter
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