Allen Mike S Really Cool Backpackin Book

Author : Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

Author : Allen O'Bannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Backpacking
ISBN : OCLC:1024170336

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

Author : Mike Clelland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Author : Don Ladigin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Author : Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : Allen O'Bannon
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Author : Mike Clelland,Allen O'bannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780345523211

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The Ledge by Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom. “Plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.”—Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute “How [Davidson] rescued himself is the core of The Ledge, and its most gripping part. The physical effort and will involved are astonishing.”—The Plain Dealer “A moving portrait of friendship and loss.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Andy Tyson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.

Author : George Cole,Alan Dixon
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Backpacking
ISBN : 0974818828

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Lightweight Backpacking and Camping by George Cole,Alan Dixon Pdf

The notion that you need to carry 40 or 50 pounds of gear into the backcountry to be comfortable and safe is absolutely ridiculous. So say the backcountry experts at Backpacking Light magazine in a new book that redefines modern day backpacking as safe, comfortable, and fun?but with a much lighter pack. This is the most comprehensive and rigorous text ever published on lightweight backpacking. In addition to chapters about gear and basic skills, Lightweight Backpacking & Camping covers advanced topics, and has the latest information about the best lightweight gear and apparel, including the manufacturers that make it and the retailers that carry it.

Author : Martin Volken,Scott Schell,Margaret Wheeler
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Author : Jeffrey Marion
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811760515

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Leave No Trace in the Outdoors by Jeffrey Marion Pdf

The essential guide for enjoying the outdoors without harming the environment.

Author : Mike Carter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446406045

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One Man and His Bike by Mike Carter Pdf

What would happen if you were cycling to the office and just kept on pedalling? Needing a change, Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5,000 mile ride around the entire British coastline - the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests, drag queens and gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers and people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness and generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring and very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.

Author : Bobbi Hoadley
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Camping
ISBN : 0762725303

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Babes in the Woods by Bobbi Hoadley Pdf

Hoadley offers this fun guide for women who want to be wild--but not suffer for their time in the wilderness. She introduces back country adventures for the novice and experienced camper alike. Illustrations.

Author : James Halfpenny
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493022045

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Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains by James Halfpenny Pdf

See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains will help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have passed your way and could still be nearby. Clearly written descriptions and illustrations of scats, tracks, and gait patterns will help you recognize seventy Rocky Mountain species. An identification key, a glossary of tracking terms, and detailed instructions on how to document your finds are also included here. Easy-to-use scat and track measurements appear on each page, making this book especially field friendly and letting you know if a white tailed ptarmigan, a red fox, or even a black bear has been your way.