Download or read book Smarter Backpacking After 50 Or How Any Trekker Can Adapt Any Hike to Any Age Or Fitness written by Jörgen Johansson and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smarter Backpacking after 50 is a book that aims show hikers how to plan for and adapt their treks to their current capacity. Something that goes for any age, but is of particular interest for people that are not supermen in peak fitness due to age, maladies, gender or lack of training. Jorgen Johansson shows how use of lightweight and ultraligth hiking techniques can allow any person to get the most out of his or her long or short hikes in the outdoors.By distiling wilderness travel into its simplest components this becomes a book for day-hikers and thru-hikers, newbies and experienced backpackers or travellers alike. Jorgen Johansson has also authored Smarter Backpacking or How every backpacker can apply lightweight trekking and ultralight hiking techniques.About the authorJorgen Johansson was a traditional backpacker for decades until he started using and adapting ultralight and lightweight backpacking techniques to the demanding environment of the tundra mountains of northern Europe.He has hiked in many areas of the northern hemisphere,including the Alps, Ireland, Canada, Alaska and other parts of the US.He has published the well received Smarter Backpacking as well as several books on backpacking in Swedish. Apart from his books he also contributes articles to outdoor magazines and holds courses and lectures on lightweight hiking techniques. He lives just north of Stockholm, Sweden. More info on Jorgen and his books can be found at www.smarterbackpacking.com.
Download or read book Smarter Backpacking written by Jorgen Johansson and published by Nui AB. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorgen Johansson was a traditional backpacker for decades until he started using and adapting ultralight and lightweight backpacking techniques to the demanding circumstances of the tundra mountains of northern Europe. Apart from his books he also contributes articles to outdoor magazines and holds courses and lectures on lightweight hiking techniques. More info can be found at www.smarterbackpacking.com -- from publisher.
Download or read book The Smart Guide to Hiking and Backpacking written by Brian Nordstrom and published by Smart Guide Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon six decades of camping, hiking, and family vacations to national parks all over the United States, outdoor enthusiast Brian Nordstrom provides readers with the essential information about gear, hiking and camping with children, and basic first aid in this outdoor guide. The book also discusses wilderness survival—not only how to avoid dangerous situations, but also how to deal with them when they do occur. This is an important resource for readers seeking enjoyable and safe backcountry experiences.
Download or read book Backpacking the Light Way written by Richard A. Light and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not another backpacking gear book. Backpacking the Light Way is for both beginner and advanced backpackers who want to pack more efficiently, carry less weight, still be fully prepared for contingencies, and have more fun in the backcountry. It will benefit instructors and guides by giving them methods to teach their clients, and it will help them refine their risk assessment and trip planning techniques. This book presents field-tested, proven methodologies including gear organization, modular packing systems, and creating gear lists that work. Assessing conventional gear currently owned and understanding the mindsets of both conventional and ultralight backpacking. Navigating the mindset shift required to seriously lighten up and redefining each gear system to meet your needs. Dealing with winter conditions and packing to minimize frustration. Assessing risk, effective trip planning and much more.
Download or read book Smart and Savvy Hiking written by Kim Lipker and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart & Savvy Hiking will walk readers through the basics of the outdoor world and how to have a fulfilling outdoor experience. Information will be presented in a way that offers women unique ways to experience the outdoors, through journaling, goal setting, and checklists. Women of all outdoor-ability levels will be engaged. Hiking mistress and trail master Kim Lipker starts with the assumption that, Yes!, females are indeed at home in the wilderness. This unique guide is packed with essential how-to information, wit, wisdom, and tips on everything from safety, to basic equipment, to hiking while pregnant. Whether new to the sport or a veteran, Smart & Savvy Hiking prepares females to have fun, enjoy, and be safe on a day hike through the woods, weekend blast in the desert, or extended journey on a long trail. Daring? Of course. Dangerous? No way. Divine? In every possible way.
Download or read book Advanced Backpacking written by Karen Berger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert long-distance backpacker shares secrets of the world's elite trekkers to make every hiker's adventure safer and more enjoyable.
Download or read book Backpacker s Start Up written by Doug Werner and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed specifically at the novice outdoor adventurer, this comprehensive guide explains the essential gear, preparations, precautions, and techniques required for day hiking and short backpacking trips. Through informative, entertaining, and encouraging personal anecdotes, the guide emphasizes the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits of spending time in nature. Essential first aid and map-reading information is also included.
Download or read book Joy of Backpacking written by Brian Beffort and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide covering every aspect of how to backpack—from planning a first trip to advanced wilderness travel. 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. You will also learn what to expect on the trail and in camp, and how to stay safe with first aid, weather preparedness, and more. For experienced packers, this book 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.
Download or read book Backpacker s Start Up written by Doug Werner and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed specifically at the novice outdoor adventurer, this comprehensive guide explains the essential gear, preparations, precautions, and techniques required for day hiking and short backpacking trips. Through informative, entertaining, and encouraging personal anecdotes, the guide emphasizes the physical, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits of spending time in nature. Essential first aid and map-reading information is also included.
Download or read book Backpacker The Complete Guide to Backpacking written by Backpacker Magazine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker Magazine’sThe Complete Guide to Backpacking combines and distills the most useful and relevant skills necessary for backpacking in one easy to use guide, from the most respected authority on backpacking— Backpacker magazine. From detailed descriptions of what to pack and how to pack it, to navigation and campsite cooking, to managing outdoor hazards and more, The Complete Guide to Backpacking is the definitive resource for Backpacking-related know-how.
Download or read book Smart Backpacking English Edition written by Ronald Richter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must for all those who are about to go on their first Work and Travel trip as a backpacker! You would like to travel as a backpacker for the first time, but you still have a lot of questions how to begin? This book shows you everything you need to know in order to organize your first Work and Travel trip to Australia or New Zealand. Other countries are also possible. To travel the world on a long-term basis doesn't even have to be expensive or difficult, because nearly everybody can afford it and organize it themselves. No matter if three weeks, three months, or three years Work and Travel - you just have to know how. Here you will find everything you need to know. - How you organize your first trip as a backpacker - The easy way to get your correct working holiday visa - How you can finance your work and travel trip locally - Open up a bank account abroad - this is how it works for sure - How you find accommodation that suits you the best - The 4 best paid jobs for backpackers - How digital nomads earn their money - A simple trick to easily save money - Ultimate money management system - you can control your finances this way - What do you do if there are no Work and Travel jobs - How you can make helpful and useful contacts in foreign countries - The perfect pack list for backpackers, making packing easy - Security when travelling - the best tips and tricks - How you organize your returning home for the best - Plus my travel stories from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan and South Korea No matter if you want to do Work and Travel in Australia or you plan a long world cruise, the book will help you to travel relaxed and save a lot of money. I will also reveal to you how I was able to travel around the world for three years, even though I only had $1,000 starting capital. If you are still doubtful but still want to do Work and Travel, then use the information here! Scroll to the top and order "SMART BACKPACKING - so that you too don't just dream about travelling, but instead do it!
Download or read book Hike Smart written by Ann Marie Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a first-timer about to take your inaugural trek? Are you veteran hiker looking to be even more efficient when enjoying the sport you love? Are you someone in between? Then look no further than expert trekker Ann Brown’s Hike Smart, the definitive guide to efficient and enjoyable hiking for all levels of experience. Compiling knowledge from over thirty years of hiking, Hike Smart includes hundreds of tips, tactics, and techniques all aimed at helping you become a better hiker. Within these pages, you’ll find: • Dozens of trail dos and don’ts • Pointers on choosing the right gear for your hike—with an emphasis on boots and packs • Advice on negotiating different terrains • Recommendations on how-to deal with unexpected on-trail situations • Stories and interviews from hikers who’ve conquered tough trails • Beautiful color photos of some of America’s most majestic hikes • And much more! So whether you’re about to embark on your first hike or your hundred-and-first, Hike Smart is the only guide you’ll need to ensure that you have your most enjoyable, and smartest trek yet.
Download or read book The Complete Walker IV written by Colin Fletcher and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called “the Hiker’s Bible.” For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Together, they have made this fourth edition of The Complete Walker the most informative, entertaining, and thorough version yet. The eighteen years since the publication of The Complete Walker III have seen revolutionary changes in hiking and camping equipment: developments in waterproofing technology, smaller and more durable stoves, lighter boots, more manageable tents, and a wider array of food options. The equipment recommendations are therefore not merely revised and tweaked, but completely revamped. During these two decades we have also seen a deepening of environmental consciousness. Not only has backpacking become more popular, but a whole ethic of responsible outdoorsmanship has emerged. In this book the authors confidently lead us through these technological, ethical, and spiritual changes. Fletcher and Rawlins’s thorough appraisal and recommendation of equipment begins with a “Ground Plan,” a discussion of general hiking preparedness. How much to bring? What are the ideal clothes, food, boots, and tents for your trip? They evaluate each of these variables in detail—including open, honest critiques and endorsements of brand-name equipment. Their equipment searches are exhaustive; they talk in detail about everything from socks to freeze-dried trail curries. They end as they began, with a philosophical and literary disquisition on the reasons to walk, capped off with a delightful collection of quotes about walking and the outdoor life. After a thoughtful and painstaking analysis of hiking gear from hats to boots, from longjohns to tent flaps, they remind us that ultimately hiking is about the experience of being outdoors and seeing the green world anew. Like its predecessors, The Complete Walker IV is an essential purchase for anyone captivated by the outdoor life.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Download or read book Backpacking Hiking written by Jason Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the trails with all the backpacking and hiking information you need You know there's nothing quite like spending time with nature, enjoying the fresh air and magnificent vistas. But thinking about where to go, what to bring, and how to protect yourself from the elements might have you feeling less adventurous than you'd like. Well, it's time to get off the couch and onto the trail with Outdoor Adventure Guides: Backpacking and Hiking. Filled with practical tips, this guide gives you all the information you need to survive and thrive in the great outdoors. Packed with information ranging from preparing your body and choosing what to bring to handling the elements and knowing your first aid, this no-nonsense guide has everything you've been looking for in a trail buddy--and its travel-friendly size means it fits in any backpack you bring! So what are you waiting for? Go have an adventure!
Download or read book A Better Backpack written by Kristin Fontichiaro and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a smarter backpack make life easier for the kids in your school? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to look at their backpack (the pros and cons of it) in a specific way to figure out how to improve it. Design thinking fosters innovation, creativity, and even empathy--essential learning for students. Book includes table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, infographics, and instructions.
Download or read book Basic Illustrated Backpacking written by Harry Roberts and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BASIC ILLUSTRATED BACKPACKING Expert hikers Harry Roberts and Russ Schneider take readers step-by-step through planning a trip for each skill level, selecting the proper gear and provisions (including the right boots), how to find you way through wilderness, prepare a good meal, and much more.
