文档介绍：Backpacker’s
Start-Up:
A Beginner’s Guide to
Hiking & Backpacking
Start-Up Sports/Doug Werner
Backpacker’s
Start-Up:
A Beginner’s
Guide to Hiking & Backpacking
By
Doug Werner
Start-UpSports #10
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Tracks Publishing
San Diego, California
Backpacker’s
Start-Up:
A Beginner’s Guide to
Hiking & Backpacking
By Doug Werner
Start-Up Sports® / Tracks Publishing
140 Brightwood Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 91910
619-476-7125 Fax 619-476-8173
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and retrieval system without permission from the author,except for
the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.
Copyright © 1999 by Doug Werner
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Publisher’s Cataloging in Publication
Werner, Doug, 1950-
Backpacker’s start-up : a beginner’s guide to
hiking and backpacking / Doug Werner.
p. cm. -- (Start-up sports ; #10)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preassigned : 98-61173.
ISBN: 1-884654-10-X
1. Backpacking. 2. Hiking . II. Series.
1999
QBI98-1152
To Joy
Acknowledgements:
Kathleen Wheeler
Phyllis Carter
Jim Clinkscales
Mark Suchomel
Lynn’s Photo
ColorType
Alison Thatcher
Tammy Parsons
Bookcrafters
Jim Waide
Alan Lachica
Preface:
Plan for fun
Like any active pursuit outside the work-
place, backpacking is supposed to be fun
and challenging. Surviving horrible situations
make for good stories, but it’s the pleasure of
plishment and the pure joy of being
outdoors that we’re concerned with here.
Planning and preparation are them
your backpacking goals are reasonably attain-
them you’ll be hating
you’ll never go back.
Just seven miles into a 45-mile hike.
Contents
Preface: Plan for fun 5
Introduction: Rewards 9
1. Getting started the