The Backpacker's Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills

Rick Curtis

May 2011 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

This thoroughly researched yet accessible backpacking book offers a complete view of backpacking today, exploring everything from how to plan a trip and select gear to emergency procedures and first-aid care in the field
 
A revised, updated, and comprehensive guide to backpacking with a complete view of modern-day backpacking, The Backpacker’s Field Manual covers the best in gear, first aid, and Leave No Trace camping, and also includes chapters dedicated to trip planning, cooking and nutrition, hygiene and water purification, and more. 
 
Whether you’re about to set off on your first hike or have been camping for decades, The Backpacker’s Field Manual is an indispensable guide for trip planning strategies and also works as a quick reference on the trail for:

• Back-country skills: how to forecast the weather, identify trees, bear-proof your campsite, wrap an injured ankle, and more—with over one hundred illustrations to guide you
• Tricks of the trail: time-tested practical lessons learned along the way
• Going ultra-light: downsizing suggestions for those who want to lighten up
 
Every traveler knows that space in a backpack is limited, so on your next trip, carry the only guide you'll ever need—this one—and take to the great outdoors with confidence.

Ratings and reviews

Very informative easy reading. Starting point with lots of good ideas as a lot had changed since my days on the trail... from equipment to resources. Have tried a few of the recipes at home before our next camp hiking adventure. Basic skills camp craft cooking weather navigation are well covered

This book was a great first read when i first started backpacking and going on extended hikes, even to this day i still and probably always will refer back to this book. Definitely recommended. As mine was stolen I'll be grabbing another copy for sure. Thanks for all of the great knowledge I've learned through reading it.

Great to have for reading on the. trail, as well as great accurate information. Always in my pack

About the author

Rick Curtis is the director of the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University, one of the largest and most successful college outdoor programs in the country. He lectures regularly on topics ranging from outdoor leadership to risk management. Rick has been backpacking around the world for more than twenty-five years.