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Title: Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style (Backpacking Light)
ISBN: 0974818828
Author:
Ryan Jordan
Publicate Date: 2005-10
Publish: 2005-10
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Lightweight Backpacking and Camping
Great reference with lots of practical information on ultralight backpacking. It's full of ideas on how to keep your pack light without compromising too on much comfort.
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2: Great book!
This book is a great in-depth manual for the art of UL hiking. They are a little sold-out to promoting their own products, but still highly recommended.
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3: LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING CAMPING
This is a great book that will give most anyone all the background needed to understand the concepts behind not only backpacking but also camping. The book is divided into sections: The art and science of Walking, Protection from the elements, Eating Drinking and Hygiene, First Aid, Proven Lightweight Solutions. The waking section includes a great deal of information regarding the forces placed on the feet and joints during walking/hiking whether it is uphill, downhill, across a hill, and also the effects of back packs and pack weight on these forces. I have been hiking a long time and there is a lot of interesting information here. The other sections of the book have similar in-depth background to help you understand better how things work. That is good to help you make better decisions on selecting gear and clothing. There is a lot of mention of the backpackinglight web site that I am now subscribed to. This book is a must-have if you are serious about not lugging around a lot of weight (that is really un-needed) out on the trail.
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4: Enjoyable and Intertaining!
Other than my Royal Rangers Handbook as a kid in the 80's this was my first book into the world of backpacking. I have to say that the whole lightweight backpacking idea really appeals to me for many reasons. I remember lugging around all that unnecessary gear. The over weight packing made for some long and tortuous trips. Me and my wife are soon to move from South Florida to Denver CO. and are getting ourselves together for some good ol out dooring (hiking/backpacking /camping). I went to the public library to get some books to read on the subjects of camping /hiking and backpacking before I buy to see if there any good.
Ryan Jordan's LIGHTWEIGHT is to me a good book. It opened the door of the whole light and ultralight packing up to me and my wife.After Reading it along with all the other books I checked out from the public library Id have to say it was one of my favs. there were times that I wished MR Jordan would of went into a little more detail on certain subjects , but I guess he couldn't cover every subject in complete detail. I would have to say that this book to me is not the definitive backpackers guide. There was no survival section. There was a section specifically for women that my wife found both educational and entertaining. I will go and buy this book though and recommend it to anyone that is interested in backpacking , whether ultralight or not.
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5: The most advanced book on the subject
This the best book on the subject. I think the detail is a bit too much for the novice. "Lighten Up" is a better introductory work, but the depth offered here is without comparison. I loved it all except for the detail on walking. Either I don't have the patience/intellect, or it's just a bit too much. All that said, it truly is the best book on the subject, and I learned an incredible amount from it.
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