Complete Hiker

Gear advice, terrain-specific tips, and real world scenarios make this a unique hiking guide. This revised and expanded edition:
-- Features Hodgson and Long's hiking stories from their worldwide treks, and climate- and terrain-specific advice.
-- Includes new chapters on long-distance hiking and camping for a day, a week, or longer.
-- Aids you in predicting the difficulty of a hike, managing food and water, handling difficult terrain, administering first aid, hiking with kids, and selecting and using clothing and gear.The Complete Hiker (first published as Dayhiker's Handbook) has counseled and entertained many of America's 60 million hikers for years.