Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills by Kavanagh, James

Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781620053027)

Vendor: James Kavanagh
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills by Kavanagh, James

Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills

$8.95
Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills by Kavanagh, James

Backpacking Essentials: A Folding Pocket Guide to Gear & Back Country Skills

$8.95
Format: Paperback
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Backpacking is an exercise of endurance and meticulous planning. Every last ounce of weight must be accounted for to ensure that you're not carrying an oversized load. This detailed portable reference will help prepare you for your next outdoor adventure. It includes important information on selecting the appropriate gear for all types of weather, camping and camp craft, navigation, dangerous animals and plants, safe travel strategies, hiking etiquette (leave no trace), wilderness first aid, and instructions for what to do if you are lost. The reusable packing checklist is a handy tool you'll use over and over. Waterproof for durability, this 12-panel folding pocket guide is a lightweight companion for educators, learners, backpackers, hikers, and expeditioners of all skill and experience levels. Made in the USA.

Author: James Kavanagh, Waterford Press
ISBN-10: 1620053020
ISBN-13: 9781620053027
Publisher: Waterford Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 10
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 5.60h x 3.80w x 0.30d
By James Kavanagh
By James Kavanagh
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Zoologist Jim Kavanagh has made a career out of introducing novices to plants, animals, the sciences and world cultures. In addition to creating over 500 simplified nature guides, he has also authored guides to languages, cities and outdoor skills. An avid traveler and backpacker, Kavanagh's path has taken him around the world to many remote destinations including the upper Amazon, Africa, Australia, and the Arctic Circle (and this is just the As). He is also the author of a series of state-specific guides to common species and natural attractions and a children's book on evolution.

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