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Hiking and Backpacking, 2nd: Essential Skills to Advanced Techniques
 
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Don't let a poorly planned, ill-equipped backpacking trek dissolve into the worst nightmare. Take charge with Backpacking: Essential Skills to Advanced Techniques and get ready to hit the trail and have a good time! This guide demystifies the outdoor experience, proving that backpackers don't have to be wilderness warriors to get back to nature and have fun. Whether they are novices or seasoned path slappers, these tips, skills, techniques, and tricks will have them trailblazing like never before.

Backpacking: Essential Skills to Advanced Techniques is organized the same way backpackers would carry out any trip. The planning section details all the options for hikers and suggests ways to pick the best trails to fit their ability, time, and interests. There's even a section for those serious about long-distance hikes. And, whether they are out for one night or tackling a thru hike, Backpacking gives them advice on the most daunting aspect of backpacking: gear. Logue offers advice on which equipment is essential and examines important features that should be inspected prior to buying anything.

Once they are on the trail, Backpacking keeps them on the trail with advice on learning to pace themselves, crossing streams safely, hiking in snow, navigating with GPS, and using a map and compass. And when the hike is done, look no further for help in finding a good camp, setting up their kitchen, and maintaining and repairing equipment.

Whether backpackers go with a group or by themselves, for one day or an extended trip, Backpacking offers time-tested advice and tips that will help make their trip more rewarding.

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Explains every aspect of the outdoor experience
 
Review Date: February 11, 2001
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI USA
Backpacking: Essential Skills To Advanced Techniques clearly explains every aspect of the outdoor experience of hiking on foot through the outdoors. The planning section details all the options for picking the best trails to fit ability, time and interests. There is a useful section devoted to those who dare to embark on serious long-distance hikes. The reader is provided with all the information needed to safely and competently select the gear most appropriate to the hiking project from the hi-tech equipment available to today's outdoor enthusiast. Backpack also offers sound and practical advice on pacing oneself, crossing streams, hiking in snow, using a map & compass, finding a good camp, setting up a kitchen, as well as maintaining and repairing equipment. Very highly recommended for the outdoor enthusiast, Backpacking is an ideal introduction for the novice, and offers a wealth of information, tips & techniques that even the more experienced backpacker will appreciate and benefit by.

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