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Snow Walker's Companion: Winter Camping Skills for the North Tapa blanda – 26 Octubre 2005

de Garrett Conover (Author), Alexandra Conover (Author)
4.3 de 5 estrellas 18 calificaciones
The Conovers are writers, educators and guides who have safely escorted thousands of wilderness adventurers through the North. Now you can take their expertise with you, wherever you go. This is your guide to traditional winter camping. Learn how to stay warm in extreme temperatures. Get practical advise on setting up tents and choosing the right gear. Discover tips on reading lake- and river-ice conditions and more. It's all in this essential book!
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  1. Número de páginas
    288 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Stone Ridge Pub
  4. Fecha de publicación
    26 Octubre 2005
  5. Dimensiones
    6 x 0.75 x 8.75 pulgadas
  6. ISBN-10
    0976031337
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0976031338
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  • S. M. Sharp
    5.0 de 5 estrellas A Must Have
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 7 de noviembre de 2010
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    I purchased this book as a gift for my sister who knows more about outdoor skills and gears than most companies and books, so I wasn't sure if she'd think it was a valuable addition for her at that level of knowledge and skills. (She's not a snob about things, just way beyond the basics at this point.) Since she's received it, she has hardly put it down! She loves it. When I asked her what she thought, she said, "Fabulous!! Finally a book that actually teaches you how to live in the situation--equipment you need, how to make your choices, where to get things! A book for someone who actually wants to spend extended time (months at a time) in the colder climate, not just a weekend in and out, written by someone who actually knows the stuff." She's even been jotting down notes!

    I also have found it easy to follow (when I could sneak it away from sis), but information packed. I like the whats explained with the whys and hows of things--and I'm at more of an advanced beginner level for outdoor skills. Topics are well explained. There's even some patterns in it for mukluks and such. I'll probably have to buy my own copy just so I have the chance to really read it. So obviously, this is a must have for anyone, beginner or advanced, who really wants to learn how to live and travel properly in cold, snowy climates for longer than the occassional week vacation.
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  • Amazonian
    5.0 de 5 estrellas great book
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 28 de octubre de 2017
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    A+, great book
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  • Matthew O'keefe
    5.0 de 5 estrellas outstanding
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 29 de septiembre de 2009
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    Outstanding book: fun to read, great vignettes of their various trips, makes possible what I thought was impossible, camping in any winter weather.
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  • Ross Gilmore
    2.0 de 5 estrellas A book with narrow focus and heavy bias
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 21 de noviembre de 2013
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    The book has an incredibly narrow focus. If your only interest is walking during winter on flat ground, with a group of several other people, with all of you pulling 150lb toboggans, AND you have a deep hatred for products made form anything petroleum based, then this is the perfect book for you. If on the other hand you have more general interests in traveling through the wilderness in winter, such as traveling over rough terrain, or up mountain, or camping, or traveling with a backpack, etc, the book is almost completely irrelevant, and that is exactly how the authors seem to have intended it to be. While there is nothing wrong with a book with narrow focus, the authors are outright hostile to any other approach to winter travel, and any technology or techniques which are used or developed for travel in any manner that is not identical to theirs. All other approaches are glossed over as if they are misguided attempts by people not familiar with winter wilderness travel. It is rare to see such bias from an author. The sad part is that the information presented is not actually bad, it is just horribly misguided due to the ever present bias of the authors. Again, if you are looking for information exclusively on how you can travel in winter on flat ground with several other people while pulling heavy toboggans, and you have a deep hatred for modern technology, then this is the perfect book for you. For everyone else, there are much better option.
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  • Dutch_Henry
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Great read! You'll learn a ton.
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 14 de mayo de 2018
    This is an excellent, comprehensive, and engagingly written guide to expedition travel in cold climates. As some other reviewers have noted, the Conovers' focus is specialized: most of the advice centers on longer winter expeditions in the north country, where trekkers are traveling by snowshoe over frozen lakes, rivers, muskeg, and tundra. For someone like me, whose winter outdoors experience is more centered on mountaineering and cold-tenting, I found the book invaluable. They detail a holistic, comprehensive expedition system and philosophy that has served them extremely well. You'll find it has more in common with the technologies and ways of indigenous people of the north, cold-country trappers, and old-timey bushcraft than with contemporary technologies and low-impact backcountry ethics. This is not a critique--if the latter is your experience set, you'll learn a lot from this book and be waaaaaay more comfortable in the backcountry as a result. The book is deeply comprehensive when it comes to flatland winter travel via snowshoe; it's sometimes opinionated but not dogmatic about gear and clothing, and it will inform any winter travel you do but doesn't touch on ski touring, or mountain travel. It's pretty superficial on snow machine travel, expedition first aid, and sometimes spare on details. That said, any reader can easily go deeper by exploring online or otherwise growing his/her library accordingly . Awesome read--a classic akin to Bill Mason's Path of the Paddle and Clif Jacobson's Expedition Canoeing. Read it. You'll learn a lot, and it will most likely change some of how you travel in the winter. They weave stories of their expeditions throughout the text, which makes it an entertaining read.

    Smaller notes: a) Thank goodness someone is criticizing modern snowshoes, something these authors rightly do...modern 'shoes are hugely inferior to traditional wooden snowshoes on flat ground or in deep untracked snow. 2) Very helpful addresses and sites of US gear manufacturers--support your local niche gear manufacturer! 3) This book can be found in the 30 dollar range elsewhere on the web and is distributed by Adventure Publications in Cambridge, MN. The Amazon price is a total joke.
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  • Bruce T. Batchelor
    5.0 de 5 estrellas "One of the two have-to read winter camping books"
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 24 de octubre de 2013
    Recently Bill Laughing-Bear, musher of Willow, Alaska, wrote to me that, "I consider your book, 'Nine Dog Winter,' one of two have-to reads for those living in the Bush. The other book is titled 'The Snow Walkers Companion'.

    So while we all await reprinting and lower prices for Snow Walker, I suggest you look at Nine Dog Winter Nine Dog Winter: In 1980, Two Young Canadians Recruited Nine Rowdy Sled Dogs, and Headed Out Camping in the Yukon as Temperatures Plung. It is filled with detailed info on traditional winter camping techniques and includes instructions for making your own toboggans, moccasins, harnessing, gauntlets, food, etc., etc.

    I am delighted to be going to Willow in February 2014 to make a presentation to the Dog Mushers association. And much more delighted to be going mushing again!
    thanks, cheers, Bruce Batchelor
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  • Jim M
    5.0 de 5 estrellas What are you waiting for?
    Calificado en Canadá el 9 de octubre de 2012
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    This is the best winter camping book in print today. Period! I have lived, played and read about life in the north my entire life. I have not found anything written on winter camping. With the quality of information and experience of Garrett and Alexandria Conover.
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  • Mr. J. Jackson
    5.0 de 5 estrellas Highly recommended by anyone thinking of venturing into the North woods ...
    Calificado en Reino Unido el 2 de octubre de 2014
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    An epic book, written by someone who has lived it! Highly recommended by anyone thinking of venturing into the North woods in winter!
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  • JR
    5.0 de 5 estrellas A must read for the winter camping enthusiast!!!
    Calificado en Canadá el 15 de julio de 2013
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    Learn from the best and most inexperienced winter trekkers that utilize proven traditional methods and equipment. The trek through the harshest winter environments in expedition-like time frames. You will be a better winter camper once you read this.
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