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Camping or backpacking in winter is appealing for many who enjoy the serenity of wilderness settings without the crowds and bustle of the summer season. But as rewarding as they can be, these outings require special preparation and a different set of skills than are necessary at other times of the year. Snowfall can quickly cover one's tracks and make orientation difficult. Hypothermia is insidious, and rapidly changing weather conditions can become treacherous, even life-threatening. In addition to those who are exploring the outdoors recreationally, there are also those who find themselves in unexpected winter survival situations. Each year, people become stranded in wilderness areas, and in most cases they are not equipped to face the challenge of spending an indefinite amount of time outside. Without sufficient gear or knowledge of how to improvise without it, injury or death is often the result. The development of some basic skills, however, can help avert such unfortunate outcomes. As the founder of the renowned nature awareness program Primitive Pursuits, Dave Hall has been practicing survival skills for more than twenty years and has amassed a comprehensive understanding of winter survival. By refining these skills, Dave has reached a point of understanding that is without peer. Through detailed explanations, illustrations, and personal anecdotes, Winter in the Wilderness imparts Dave's knowledge to readers, who will learn to meet their most basic needs: making fire, creating shelter, obtaining safe drinking water, navigating terrain, and procuring sustenance. Winter in the Wilderness is a handbook for those who want to explore cold-weather camping and those who might find themselves in need of this critical information during an unexpected winter's night out. Whether used for pleasure or for survival, Winter in the Wilderness emphasizes the benefits of enriching and deepening our connection with the outdoors.
Wilderness survival --- Snow camping --- Winter camping --- Camping
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How many greenback saddles does that last bullfrog Max shot make, Toby! "" ""T-t-thirteen, all t-t-told, Steve. "" ""Ginger! that's going some for so early in the spring season, isn't it? I'd like to get about twenty before we quit, which would make just five for each of us, Max, Bandy-legs, you and myself. And seems like we ought to knock over seven more this Saturday afternoon. ""
Adventures -- Fiction. --- Campfire -- Fiction. --- Camping -- Fiction.
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Backpacking. --- Camping -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Hiking.
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Backpacking. --- Hiking for children. --- Camping. --- Outdoor recreation --- Camps --- Outdoor life --- Sports for children --- Back packing --- Packing (Transportation) --- Camping --- Hiking --- Pack transportation
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On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless space, a roof of big sky, and a bed of dry earth.
Bicycle touring. --- Backpack cycling --- Bicycle camping --- Bicycle tours --- Touring, Bicycle --- Camping --- Cycling --- Travel --- West (U.S.) --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel
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Das Lehrbuch gibt einen einzigartigen und umfassenden Überblick über Entwicklung, Potentiale und Perspektiven des Radtourismus in Deutschland und Europa. Namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft, Tourismuswirtschaft und dem Fahrradverband ADFC liefern fundierte Beiträge. Der Grundlagenteil ordnet den Radtourismus in das System des Tourismus ein und betrachtet wichtige Facetten von Angebot und Nachfrage. Aktuelle Fallbeispiele (z.B. Donau-Radweg, Elberadweg, Mallorca) beleuchten Raddestinationen und Wertschöpfung und veranschaulichen aktuelle Standards und die Vorgehensweise bei Planungen im Radtourismus.
Bicycle touring --- Bicycle trails --- Bicycle paths --- Bikeways --- Cycle routes --- Cycling paths --- Trails --- Backpack cycling --- Bicycle camping --- Bicycle tours --- Touring, Bicycle --- Camping --- Cycling --- Travel
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Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes-tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
Poesie canadienne-anglaise --- Canadian poetry (English) --- Canadian literature --- Camping --- Outdoor recreation --- Camps --- Outdoor life --- History.
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Nebraska's Cowboy Trail: A User's Guide is the essential companion for anyone planning to hike, bike, or ride horseback on the Cowboy Recreation and Nature Trail, which currently extends from Norfolk to Valentine and will eventually stretch all the way to Chadron. The trail runs through numerous communities, accommodates multiple uses, and provides an up-close look at the ecology of the Great Plains-a view too easily missed when speeding by in a car. Keith Terry's guidebook enhances appreciation of the trail's natural advantages with descriptions of the region's flora and fauna and with pointe
Hiking. --- Hiking --- Bicycle touring --- Recreation & Sports --- Social Sciences --- Backpack cycling --- Bicycle camping --- Bicycle tours --- Touring, Bicycle --- Camping --- Cycling --- Travel --- Bushwalking --- Tramping --- Trekking --- Sports --- Walking --- Cowboy Recreation and Nature Trail (Neb.) --- Cowboy Trail (Neb.)
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Authors, American --- Outdoor life --- Edwards, Steve, --- Oregon --- Description and travel. --- Rural life --- Description and travel --- Manners and customs --- Camping --- Sports
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