Beyond Backpacking: Ray Jardine's Guide to Lightweight Hiking
10 best books like Beyond Backpacking: Ray Jardine's Guide to Lightweight Hiking (Ray Jardine): How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, Tom Brown's Guide to Wilderness Survival, In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60, A Journey North: One Woman's Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail, The Backpacker's Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills, Acupressure's Potent Points: A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments, Be Expert with Map and Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook, The Complete Walker, Dances with Marmots: A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure, Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
| Author | Kathleen Meyer |
| ISBN | 0898156270 |
Most outdoor books available in English fall prey to Victorian sensibilities and fail to mention one to the most serious issues encountered in trekking around the countryside. Kathleen eyer, river-runner and longtime outdoorswoman, corrects this oversight in How to Shit in the Woods. What was once...
Tom Brown's Guide to Wilderness Survival
| Author | Tom Brown Jr. |
| ISBN | 0425105725 |
This long-awaited handbook by the director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School is the first of its kind. Like FOXFIRE it preserves knowledge that was in danger of being lost forever, but reaches even deeper into the past. It is about the basics. In it you will find much...
| Author | Leslie Mass |
| ISBN | 0976568608 |
In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59, she began to train for a grueling journey, a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. 'In Beauty May She Walk' chronicles Leslie's struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the...
| Author | Adrienne Hall |
| ISBN | 1929173059 |
I was really disappointed by this book.
It's as if Hall is writing two books at once. One is a sorely lacking personal account of her time on the trail, and the other is her nerdy foray into factual legalese about the trail full of statistics and pages of things I skimmed over because it was putting...
| Author | Rick Curtis |
| ISBN | 1400053099 |
When it was first published in 1998, The Backpacker's Field Manual set the standard for comprehensive backpacking books. Now exhaustively updated to offer a more complete view of backpacking today, it covers the latest developments in gear—such as Global Positioning Systems and ultralight hiking...
| Author | Michael Reed Gach |
| ISBN | 0553349708 |
With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing...
| Author | Björn Kjellström |
| ISBN | 0020292651 |
"Required reading for the beginner in map and compass work, as well as for those interested in serious Orienteering. In simple, clear, concise terms the basics of map and compass work are described and illustrated."
--George T. Hamilton, Appalachia This new, enlarged edition of Be Expert with...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0375703233 |
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...
| Author | George Spearing |
| ISBN | 1411656180 |
This story of a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike is both the same and different as the dozens of other accounts I’ve read.
It is the same because the trail is the same, the difficulties are the same, and the challenges of writing about a 5-month walking adventure are the same. After all, walking...
Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180
| Author | Mike Magnuson |
| ISBN | 1400052416 |
Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time.
Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described...
| Author | Andrew Skurka |
| ISBN | 1426209207 |
Supreme long-distance hiker Andrew Skurka shares his hard-earned knowledge in this essential guide to backpacking gear and skills. Described by National Geographic as “one of the best traveled and fastest hikers on the planet,” and named “Adventurer of the Year” by Outside and...
| Author | Mike Clelland |
| ISBN | 0762763841 |
I'm giving very low stars to this book because I'm a woman. Some will balk at that, but I found this book lacking a great deal in regards to advising the average female hiker. I read this in preparation for a section hike of the AT. I did hike in a group, so some of the suggestions were ruled out because I couldn't...
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
| Author | The Mountaineers Club |
| ISBN | 0898868289 |
If you are not a climber and/or are not interested in ever being a climber, then, for the love of God, do NOT buy this book. You will be bored to tears! But if you love the outdoors and backpacking into the high country or would like to improve your skills climbing rocks/ice/glaciers/whatever, then this...
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
| Author | David C. Korten |
| ISBN | 1605092894 |
Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It's like treating cancer with a bandage. Korten identifies the deeper sources of the failure: Wall Street...
Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767910508 |
The true story of three enthusiastic (but inexperienced) adventurers who attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River–all 4,007 miles--and (barely) live to tell about it.
To a trio of twenty-something adrenaline junkies, it sounded like an irresistible...
Lighten Up!: A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking
| Author | Don Ladigin |
| ISBN | 0762737344 |
This might have been fine as a first book about lightweight backpacking, but it's just far too simple and shallow. The illustrations are humorous and the book touches on important points regarding lightweight backpacking (take clothing layers that can all be worn at once for flexibility in different...
| Author | Jobst Brandt |
| ISBN | 0960723668 |
The 'Bicycle Wheel' is a book for every cyclist, from novice rider to experienced wheel builder, going beyond the most commonly asked questions. This volume answers questions such as: Should I use low- or high-flanged hubs for touring * Should I spoke crossed-four or crossed-three? Are radially spoked...
| Author | Debby Maugans Nakos |
| ISBN | 0761130357 |
Small-Batch Baking is how to have your cake, and eat it all too. It's baking a plate of cookies (not 4 dozen) to greet the kids when they come home from school, or a few muffins (not 12) when that's all you need for Sunday brunch. It's for the perfect tart to end a small, romantic dinner--or the indulgence of...
SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
| Author | Daniel J. Barrett |
| ISBN | 0596000111 |
Secure your computer network with SSH! With transparent, strong encryption, reliable public-key authentication, and a highly configurable client/server architecture, SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular, robust, TCP/IP-based solution to many network security and privacy concerns. It supports...
Never Wipe Your Ass with a Squirrel: A Trail and Ultramarathon Running Guide for Weird Folks
A basic primer in trail running and ultramarathon running geared toward novices. Includes A LOT of rather obscure tips, so even expert runners will find something useful. This is the table of contents:
Introduction
Why DO people run trails?
What is a trail?
Technical versus...
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising
| Author | Beth A. Leonard |
| ISBN | 0071437657 |
"Belongs in the bookshelf of every cruising vessel."--Blue Water Sailing
"If you are serious about that extended voyage, read The Voyager's Handbook."--Sailing
"Every now and then a new voice emerges in the world of sailing literature that stands out, a voice that is both clear...
