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Allen & Mike's Avalanche Book

Author : Mike Clelland,Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762792375

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Allen & Mike's Avalanche Book by Mike Clelland,Allen O'bannon Pdf

With more and more people heading into the winter backcountry on skis, snowshoes, and snowmobiles, avalanche safety is of paramount importance. Allen & Mike's Really Cool Avalanche Safety Book distills the sometimes overly technical information of snow science into a user-friendly format with helpful illustrations and easy-to-understand text. With years of experience as NOLS instructors to draw on, Allen O'Bannon and Mike Clelland team up to give winter recreationists the information they need to stay safe in the backcountry, including how to prepare for your trip, proper equipment and how to use it, snowpack assessment, choosing safe travel routes, decision making, and rescue scenarios. Written for both aspriring winter backcountry travelers and experts alike, this book is a must-read for anybody who loves to experience the solitude and beauty of the snowy mountains.

Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book

Author : Allen O'Bannon
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1575400766

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Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book by Allen O'Bannon Pdf

This book is a wealth of tips, knowledge and experience that every wintertime backcountry traveler will find, clear, concise, essential, and most certainly entertaining.

Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, Revised and Even Better!

Author : Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762765560

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Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, Revised and Even Better! by Allen O'bannon Pdf

Following up on the phenomenal success of their backcountry ski and backpacking books, Allen O'Bannon and Mike Clelland here provide a thoroughly revised and updated edition of their likewise popular Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, which first appeared in 1998. For anyone who's ever yearned to master the subtleties of the telemark turn, this book includes more than 120 clear, concise telemark tips complemented by often hilarious and always helpful illustrations. For beginners and experts alike, it is a must for tele-skiers who really want to shred. In the decade since the original publication of Allen & Mike's Really Cool Telemark Tips, telemark skiing has evolved enormously. It's entered a modern era, and this new edition reflects the new gear, the new teaching, and the new style of tele-skiing.

Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backpackin' Book

Author : Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762751778

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Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backpackin' Book by Allen O'bannon Pdf

The dynamic duo has done it again! Following up on the incredible success of their two previous bestsellers, Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book and Really Cool Telemark Tips, these two National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructors and hardcore backcountry fanatics once again combine their years of experience into a hilarious and vastly informative book on the art of backpacking. Fans know how Allen O'Bannon and Mike Clelland play off each other to provide a one-two punch that makes readers laugh and learn at the same time. Beginning backpackers will cherish the advice, and experts who think they know it all are guaranteed to pick up a few tricks from this book -- while the entertainment value alone is worth the price. From day-hiking to extended expeditions, this book covers the whole spectrum of backpacking adventrue and is certain to become a classic of the genre. Allen O'Bannon is a senior NOLS instructor who writes books to support his ski habit. Mike Clelland! is a NOLS instructor and illustrator who studied Mad magazine rather than go to art school. When not teaching NOLS classes, they live in Idaho, in the shadow of the Tetons.

Ultralight Backpackin' Tips

Author : Mike Clelland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762768875

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Ultralight Backpackin' Tips by Mike Clelland Pdf

Walking into the wilderness with a pack on your back is an empowering experience—all the more so when that pack on your back isn’t weighing you down. That’s where this book comes in. Outdoors expert and celebrated illustrator Mike Clelland offers advanced techniques on how to pack light without sacrificing the essentials or your safety yet staying well fed and comfortable. Written in the tradition of the successful Allen & Mike’s Really Cool Telemark Tips, with 153 trail-tested tips full of solid advice, as well as more than 100 humorous and helpful illustrations, Ultralight Backpackin' Tips is the ultimate guide for backpackers serious about traveling ultralight. Just a few of the top ten tips expounded upon in the book: * Use a scale. * Comfortable and safe are vital! * Make your own stuff, and making it out of trash is always the best! * It’s okay to be nerdy. * Try something new each and every time you go camping. * Know the difference between wants and needs.

Backcountry Skiing

Author : Martin Volken,Scott Schell,Margaret Wheeler
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1594850380

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Backcountry Skiing by Martin Volken,Scott Schell,Margaret Wheeler Pdf

* For intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers* Includes trip planning, navigation, fitness, and avalanche safety information, in addition to techniques*Provides advice on how to make well-informed backcountry decisionsMartin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountain backcountry. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning backcountry trips to perfecting turns in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors, using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more. In addition to mastering techniques, Backcountry Skiing also features information on recent evolutions in ski equipment; avalanche safety tips; a primer on mountain weather and glaciers, trip planning tools, a discussion of emergency situations, nutrition and fitness advice, and winter camping basics.Throughout this guide, a special emphasis is put on being well-informed and making good decisions - whenever you strap on your skis and skins and head out into the backcountry.

Avalanche Pocket Guide

Author : Bruce Tremper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Avalanches
ISBN : 1594857199

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Avalanche Pocket Guide by Bruce Tremper Pdf

12 panel laminated pocket guide Waterproof, pocket-sized, quick reference for evaluating and managing avalanche danger while you're in the backcountry. Full-color fold-out guide with the most critical quick info that skiers, snowboarders, and other mountain enthusiasts need while in the winter backcountry Carry-along complement to Tremper's best-selling Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain and Avalanche Essentials: A Step-by-Step System for Safety and Survival The Avalanche Pocket Guide includes quick and visual safety reminders: the 5 As and 2 Cs to consider when evaluating avalanche terrain; the trusty Tremper Terrain-o-Meter; a snowpack stability checklist; quick review of snowpack stability tests, low-risk travel ritual; a gear checklist; Avalanche Smart Card graphic that pulls it all together; beacon search tips; and more.

Lighten Up!

Author : Don Ladigin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762755929

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Lighten Up! by Don Ladigin Pdf

Short, to-the-point, and humorously illustrated by famed outdoor illustrator Mike Clelland, this book presents everything hikers and backpackers need to be safe, comfortable, and well fed while carrying a very small and lightweight pack.

Glacier Mountaineering

Author : Andy Tyson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762757664

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Glacier Mountaineering by Andy Tyson Pdf

Glacier Mountaineering provides the knowledge and skills needed to safely and self-sufficiently navigate over glacier terrain. Hundreds of hilarious and helpful illustrations by Mike Clelland complement the clear and concise text by Andy Tyson. Providing critical instruction for anyone planning to travel over glacier country—from the Cascades to the Rockies to Denali—this book will guide and entertain readers through glacier anatomy, equipment, route finding, and rescue techniques.

Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain

Author : Bruce Tremper
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898868343

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Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain by Bruce Tremper Pdf

Winter recreation in the mountains has increased steadily over the past few years, and so has the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches. Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain covers everything you need to know to avoid trouble in avalanche terrain: what avalanches are and how they work, common myths, human activities that lead to avalanche trouble, what happens to victims when an avalanche occurs, and rescue techniques. Provides step- by-step instruction for determining avalanche hazards, using safe travel technique, and making effective rescues.

The Grave Robber's Apprentice

Author : Allan Stratton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571284085

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The Grave Robber's Apprentice by Allan Stratton Pdf

A classic swashbuckling adventure for children aged 8+ All is not well in the kingdom of Waldberg... The orphan Hans is desperate to escape his master, the grave robber Knobbe the Bent. The young countess Angela von Schwanenberg must rescue her parents from the mad archduke. But when fate flings them together, they find themselves on a daring quest, hurtling through haunted forests, racing down mountains in a coffin and sneaking along underground passageways with a travelling circus. And at every turn, the archduke's Necromancer is there to thwart their progress. Will Angela save her parents? Will Hans escape his past and find out who he truly is? Or will the evil Necromancer capture them first?

High Adventure

Author : Mike Allsop
Publisher : A&u New Zealand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 1760633623

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High Adventure by Mike Allsop Pdf

What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures?

The Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue

Author : Andy Tyson,Mike Clelland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : 1893682064

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The Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue by Andy Tyson,Mike Clelland Pdf

At last, glacier travel and crevasse rescue made easy. Over 250 step-by-step illustrations simplify the complexities of ropework, pulley systems, equipment, and spell out the labyrinth of glacier safety and route finding.

Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book, Revised and Even Better!

Author : Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762755592

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Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book, Revised and Even Better! by Allen O'bannon Pdf

Practical advice from two NOLS instructors on all aspects of backcountry skiing and winter camping. As skiers venture farther from lift-served front country, they need to understand and avoid hazards such as avalanches and extreme cold. This book teaches skiers how to choose the right equipment, build winter shelters, stay safe, and have fun while minimizing their impact on the wilderness. Hundreds of entertaining but very practical illustrations by renowned illustrator Mike Clelland. Completely revised, updated, and even better than ever!

Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book

Author : Allen O'Bannon
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1575400766

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Allen and Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book by Allen O'Bannon Pdf

This book is a wealth of tips, knowledge and experience that every wintertime backcountry traveler will find, clear, concise, essential, and most certainly entertaining.