The backpacker's handbook

✍ Scribed by Chris Townsend

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offers a handbook for all skill levels of hiking that covers a wide range of backbacking issues, including how to use a map and compass, survival skills, and tracking.

Abstract:

Everything readers need to know about backpacking before they hit the trails  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preparing for the trail --
The load on your back --
Footwear and wilderness travel --
Carrying the load: the pack --
Keeping warm and dry: dressing for the wilderness --
Shelter: camping in the wilderness --
The wilderness kitchen --
Comfort and safety in camp and on the trail --
On the move: skills and hazards.

✦ Subjects

Backpacking -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Backpacking.