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Smart Guide To Hiking and Backpacking
Everything you need to know for the perfect hiking or backpacking experience
If you would like to begin hiking and/or camping, but do not feel confident about your abilities, then this book is definitely for you. The author draws on his own six decades of camping and hiking. His parents took him camping for the first time in the high country of Yosemite National Park when he was only a year old. They scooped water from Tenaya Lake and banged pots and pans to scare away the bears. They continued to take the author and his two brothers camping and hiking every summer of their childhoods. The author and his brothers were also Boy Scouts in troops that camped and hiked during all seasons of the year. They all became Eagle Scouts. This tradition of camping and hiking continued as the author and his wife raised their own four children. Tenting only—no motor homes or RVs in this family! The author’s travels have included every state in the United States except Hawaii, six provinces of Canada, and a handful of foreign countries. All of the author’s children began hiking and camping while they were still in diapers. They grew up spending many vacations at Yosemite, as well as a number of other national parks. In The Smart Guide to Hiking and Backpacking, the author includes the conventional information about gear, hiking and camping with children, basic first aid, and similar information readers would expect to find in hiking and camping guides. However, the author also includes information about wilderness survival—not only how to avoid unpleasant situations, but more importantly how to deal with them when they do occur. The Smart Guide to Hiking and Backpacking is intended to prepare readers for their backcountry experiences so that hopefully those experiences will be enjoyable and renewing. It is the author’s desire that his readers will learn to enjoy and appreciate the outdoors as much as he does.
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