The green guide to low-impact hiking and camping

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Laura Waterman, Laura Waterman
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The green guide to low-impact hiking and camping

In this guide to low-impact hiking and camping, Laura and Guy Waterman present a strong case for the importance of respecting the natural world while you're enjoying it. Day hikers, campers, and backpackers who follow the sensible techniques laid out in this book will help preserve the wilderness experience for generations to come.

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English
Pages
276

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Cover of: Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping
Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping
2016, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: The green guide to low-impact hiking and camping
The green guide to low-impact hiking and camping
2016
in English

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Table of Contents

Hikers: who are we?
That pack on the back: Mae West vs. Twiggy
Backpackers' favorite lies
Peakbagging
The 2,000-mile community on the move
Winter camping idyll
The greatest walkers of them all
II. The new ethic
The coming of the lug-soled army
Cleaning up our act
Low-impact hiking: of boots, mud, and grandmothers
Low-impact camping: swinging in the woods
Low-impact cooking: the fire goes out
The 46ers
III. Toward a sense of stewardship
A day in the life of the nuts
Trail tending
Seven days in April
To save a mountain flower: preserving alpine areas
a three part saga. The physical component ; Education above the trees ; Making two blades of grass to grow
Rock climbers and their environment, 1970
IV. Four unresolved impact issues
Case study 1: Low-impact bushwhacking
Case study 2: Man's best friend, or menace to wilderness?
Case study 3: Rock climbers and their environment, 1990
Case study 4: Winter camping: tracks in more than the snow
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Previous edition published in 1993 with title: Backwoods ethics.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.

Copyright Date
1993

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.5
Library of Congress
GV199.4 .W38 2016, GV199.4.W38 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 276 pages
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27212254M
ISBN 10
1581573944
ISBN 13
9781581573947
LCCN
2016012370
OCLC/WorldCat
923794447

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