Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Hiking Equipment, Technique and Style - Ryan Jordan - Paperback

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.Cole, George is the author of 'Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Hiking Equipment, Technique and Style - Ryan Jordan - Paperback' with ISBN 9780974818825 and ISBN 0974818828.