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Joy of Backpacking: Your Complete Guide to Attaining Pure Happiness in the Outdoors
 
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The Joy of Backpacking, a comprehensive guide covering every aspect of how to backpack--from planning a first trip to advanced wilderness travel--is perfect for amateur backpackers and veterans alike. For those new to the activity, longtime backpacker and author Brian Beffort covers the fundamentals, with sections on trip planning, gear, backcountry nutrition and cooking, navigation and other essential wilderness skills, what to expect on the trail and in camp, and how to stay safe with first aid, weather preparedness, and more. For experienced packers, The Joy of Backpacking is filled with practical tips and inspired ideas on how to update and refine your approach to backpacking based on trends in lightweight gear, high-tech gadgets, changing wilderness rules, and increasing opportunities for wilderness travel around the world. No other backpacking guide has more comprehensive coverage combined with unique, personalized advice on how to get the most out of this classic outdoor pursuit.

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A Clever and Well Written Book
 
Review Date: September 6, 2007
Reviewer: Glenn D. Bosio, georgia
The author of this book clearly writes from experience and the topics covered are well researched. Everything from responding to a bear who is sharing your trail to storing toilet paper - securely. My wife and I both enjoyed the author's sense of humor and his ability to make a thousand little things important elements to enhancing our experience (and expectations) of backpacking.

I would highly recommend this fun and thorough book to anyone interested in connecting with the outdoors.

Any backpacker - and any general-interest lending collection catering to campers and hikers - needs this.
 
Review Date: December 2, 2007
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI USA
JOY OF BACKPACKING: YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO ATTAINING PURE HAPPINESS IN THE OUTDOORS covers all the gear, backcountry skills, and fitness training needed to make a backpacking trip an exceptional, fun experience. Color sidebars of special information - such as how to keep warm and how to hike so as to leave no trace - compliments larger articles on the topics, offering both at-a-glance quick information backed by more expansive articles. Black and white photos compliment first-person insights into the systems and approaches that have made Brian Beffort's backpacking experiences noteworthy and fun. Any backpacker - and any general-interest lending collection catering to campers and hikers - needs this.

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