A guide to hiking, exploration, and survival in desert terrain. It provides descriptions of North American deserts, their plants and wildlife, and their distinctive geological features. It teaches how to: select the perfect desert campsite; manage water supply; share the landscape with desert wildlife; and maintain vehicles in desert conditions.
A guide that deals with various aspects of the sport; from health and safety to understanding the weather, and from setting up your equipment, to mountain flying or using a paramotor. It not only gives an introduction to the sport, but provides the information needed to pass your BHPA Elementary, Club, and Pilot level exams.
Reveals the best of Yosemite National Park through photography and informed writing. This guide covers over 20 hikes, ranging from easy to difficult, with trail descriptions, elevation charts, maps, and photos. It includes information on lodging, camping, and park activities in Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, Wawona, and Hetch Hetchy.
Starting with essential definitions such as UTM coordinate systems, position formats, and map datums, and moving on using your GPS with a computer, this book teaches you what you really need to know for outdoor GPS use, including basic map-and-compass skills and primitive navigation techniques that you can use if your GPS unit fails.
A guide for parents, teachers, psychologists, youth team leaders and sports coaches. It looks at biking, jogging, camping, swimming, paddling, snow sports, hiking, fishing, climbing and more. It helps parents in getting their kids outside and instilling in them a respect for their health and the environment.
Outlines the concepts, history, development, and definitions of leadership in outdoor recreation, including a variety of outdoor activities and the settings in which outdoor recreation can take place. Useful as a textbook for students studying recreation and leisure, this text also serves as a reference for outdoor recreation professionals.
Helps to discover how to choose and use a GPS receiver and find and download coordinates. This title also helps to discover how to: pack the right gear; share experiences with the geocaching community; search for benchmarks; and, use geocaching as a teaching tool.
Geocaching is an adventure sport that uses a GPS system and co-ordinates to find hidden caches and their reward. This title offers the information you need to know about this adventure sport. It helps you learn how to participate in or lead Geocaching activities in your community.
Aimed at those looking for a better idea on how to structure an exercise program, make it an effective body conditioner, and develop a lifelong exercise pattern. This book includes: Running Biomechanics; Sprinting; Conditioning for Competition; Overtraining; Developing Strength; Proper Nutrition; Safety; Injury Prevention; and Warm-up Techniques.
Driven by a deep, personal sense of curiosity, the author paddled hundreds of miles down swift Yukon rivers, the Peace River in north-western Alberta and several lake systems in northern Saskatchewan in pursuit of his studies which focus on the intertwined lives of prey and predators. This book deals with his travels and wildlife observations.
The word 'friluftsliv' literally refers to 'free-air life' or outdoor life. This title combines the Scandinavian approach to creating a relationship with nature (known as 'friluftsliv') with efforts by Canadian and international educators to adapt this wisdom and apply it to everyday life experiences in the open air.
A comprehensive guidebook to exploring the North and South Poles, written by renowned pioneer Dixie Dansercoer. A practical guide illustrated with suitably atmospheric photography, it is full of amazing experiences, knowledgable tips and tricks and in-depth explanations and descriptions of polar expeditions.
Presents over 200 knots, illustrating how to tie them in step-by-step photographs. This work covers the key knot types including: bends, hitches, bindings, loops, mats, plaits, rings and slings. It contains knot categories including angling and fishing, boating and sailing, caving and climbing, general purpose and outdoor pursuits.
History, geology, fairy stories and seventeen different routes up Ben Macdui. an entertaining, admiring and often very funny portrait of Britain's second highest mountain. Descriptions of the ways up alternate with accounts of climbers and cattle thieves, the Grey Man and the Wolf of Badenoch, all adding up to a rattling good read.
Draws together first person accounts, news reports and obituaries that demonstrate the awe-inspiring lengths to which explorers and adventurers have gone to push back the boundaries of human endeavour. This title collects Gordon Laing's doomed journey to Timbuctoo in 1828, and Captain Webb's epic swim across the English Channel in 1875.
Published in 1987, this guide contains about 140 routes. It features detailed descriptions and 'topos' of the known routes, from short walks, camel treks and 4WD journeys through to sports climbs and major 'big walls' of the highest technical difficulty. It gives information on sites of antiquity, flora and fauna and life with the Bedouin.
This guide offers readers all the inspiration they need for a multi-activity holiday in the Haute Maurienne, in the French Alps. With many suggestions for day walks, mountaineering routes, via ferratas, rock climbs, mountain biking, road cycling and long-distance treks, there's something here for everyone in your party.
The Outdoor Pocket Bible provides everything you could possibly need to know about outdoor living, saving you combing through thousands of books for the particular snippet of advice you need. It includes information from explaining how to light a fire in the rain to identifying seashells and shore life.
Makes the case for preserving northern wilderness through stories and colour photos of wild rivers of the Yukon, British Columbia and Alaska. This book profiles three watersheds (Alsek-Tatshenshini, Peel and Stikine) where it is still possible to protect the natural ecosystems needed by wildlife whose range in North America is shrinking rapidly.
Tells the story of the author's 2700 kilometre ski up the entire length of Norway, followed by his 3100 kilometre kayak down the whole of Norway's coast. In this guide, the entire 6200 kilometres of the outdoor expedition has been split into 35 sections. Each section is around 200 kilometres, or a week's duration.
Provides comprehensive coverage of the development, regulation and management of outdoor recreation in America. This book looks at how natural resources being used as a base for recreation can be successfully managed and considers the challenges of outdoor recreation in the twenty first century, such as resources, planning, and the environment.
A guide to living wild. It reveals the secrets of the author's years of fieldcraft experience. It contains information you really need to know about living in the field from the man who has passed 21 SAS selection, climbed Everest and survived in some of the most inhospitable regions on Earth.
More of us are spending holidays climbing mountains or simply walking in the wilderness, as well as indulging in many other more extreme activities. But how can we use our time out in the open to the full? This title shares the author's years of experience of the world's most extreme terrain to help you get the most from the great outdoors.
Looking for an alternative way of living, the author left London to live in a treehouse and off the land in a secret location deep in the woods of mid-Sussex for six months. This title chronicles his adventure - from the construction of his tree-house - complete with hot shower, compost loo and double bed - to the planting of his vegetable patch.
A comprehensive guide that combines climbing, diving, hiking and cycling routes supported by text and imagery suitable for participants of different ability levels. It provides information to the adventure activities on the Maltese islands - Malta, Gozo and Comino.
What should you do if you encounter a bear in the wild? What if you fall through thin ice? Or run out of water? Or get sick on wild food? This guide provides information about what to do when something goes wrong in the outdoors - both emergency situations and annoying accidents - in a portable format that's easy to use in the field.
Suitable as a field textbook for the NOLS wilderness first aid curriculum, this title aims to train outdoor leaders to prevent, recognise, and treat common medical problems and to stabilise a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation. It covers the fundamental topics in first aid - patient assessment, shock, soft tissue injury, and more.
Shows you how to launch a boomerang into the air and have it return to you. This title gives you an actual boomerang, and an instruction that offers you a look at the boomerang, how it works and its history, as well as information on getting out into the boomerang community with the contact information for clubs, competitions and websites.
An account of one man's struggle to acclimate to primitive life in Vermont. It shares the tales of the author's transformation from a naive flatlander into an accomplished outdoor writer coping with - and learning to love - a little piece of wilderness in New England.
Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - this book blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon.
The classic map and compass navigation guide-revised for the age of GPS GPS devices are great, but they can break, get lost, or easily be hampered by weather conditions, making basic map and compass skills essential for anyone who spends time outdoors.
Have you ever felt like the universe is doubled over laughing at you? Like you Are the butt of some great cosmic joke? Fear not! You are not alone. This lets you feel a kinship with 25 free-spirited wanderers, as they relate some of their craziest, wackiest, funniest and most inspiring tales of travel from the far side of beyond.