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Product Description
Other Appalachian Trail guidebooks tell we about important scenery, route history, or changes in terrain. This one tells we accurately what we need to know to ready for and finish a long-distance travel on a Appalachian Trail. From last a budget, scheming an itinerary, and make-up rigging to resupplying, regulating rebound boxes, and staying on schedule, this book will assistance any hiker to make certain their prolonged stretch trek is a success.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11735 in Books
- Brand: Stackpole Books
- Published on: 2009-01-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .76" h x 5.60" w x 8.20" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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About a Author
Michelle Ray has been an zealous hiker for over fifteen years and has logged thousands of miles on a Appalachian Trail. She is a member of a Appalachian Long Distance Hiking Association and works as a margin editor for a Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers Companion. She lives in New Hampshire.
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44 of 46 people found a following examination helpful.
By Raymond K. Anderson
Michelle Ray's "How to Hike a A.T." is a many extensive book I've examination on a subject. we could have used her recommendation behind in 2003, when we thru-hiked a Appalachian Trail myself. Aside from a judicious blueprint of chapters, there is an index, and even a few pages on route terminology. After reading this book we will not usually be prepared, though start to feel like a long-distance hiker. we was quite tender that she clinging a final section to: Lightweight and Ultralight Backpacking. If we are meditative about this, we need to do it right, and she covers a basics. The book also includes lists of route organizations, and suggested resources, including a created media and Web Sites.
For anyone meditative about a prolonged hike, or who wants to learn about hikers and a culture, this is a place to begin.
35 of 39 people found a following examination helpful.
By Robert Whitney
This beam to how to ready for a Thru Hike is one of a best we have seen, solely for one chapter, Chapter 5, Getting Your Gear On, The Pack.
Little is some-more critical than sellecting a good pack. The author does not sincerely state a advantages and disavantages between inner and outmost packs. To contend that a outmost support container was used especially between a 50's and a 70's on a AT is totally dubious and incorrect. External support packs have been a fortitude of hiking a AT. They still should be considered, when selecting a good durable, sturdy, rarely useable, nonetheless gentle container for a thruhike.
For good reading, to assistance we name a best container for your Tru Hike, we would recomend, Long Distant Hiking, Lessons from a AT by Roland Mueser, Backpacker & Hiker's Handbook by William Kemsley Jr. or The Appalachian Trail Hiker by Victoria and Frank Logue,
After apropos good informed, go to a GOOD container emporium and try on a several packs we examination about. Don't be pressured into shopping a container that a peddler is now pushing. Know for your self what to demeanour for in a good container and why. Your peddler might be into a stream breakthrough of Ultra Lite Backpacking, though is a super lite, one vast slot frameless pack, your best choice for a tru hike?.
The rest of a book is really good created and we recomend it highly.
17 of 18 people found a following examination helpful.
By Mariann Miller
Michelle Ray's AT beam book is a many current, concise, and interesting apparatus for anyone even deliberation hiking a Appalachian Trail. She has put a extensive volume of investigate into this book. What's more, she manages to communicate a clarity of journey and fad with all a information and advice. She brings not usually her possess knowledge as a thru-hiker, but, as a librarian has managed to accumulate a resources of information in a really entertaining fashion. There are lots of books about a AT, though this one should be a impending hiker's categorical standby. It is light adequate to lift in your backpack. Frank "The Walrus" Miller, Havre, MT
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