Tips, Guides, Information
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Trail Guides and Maps:
Maps
My Home | AllTrails.com
General Backpacking Web sites - see links below.
Trail Difficulty ratings
Equipment:
References here:
Equipment and Clothing check lists
Backpacking and Camping Food Links
Equipment Selection
Backpacking, Hiking, Camping Equipment Overview and links.
Backpacking - Hiking - Camping Gear under products
Gadgets
Equipment Care and usage
Gor-Tex repair: Rainy Pass Repair
Hiking Boots
Snowshoes
Products: Outdoor Stores / Web Shopping | Backpacking, Hiking, Camping Equipment
Equipment notes here.
Exercises
Backpacker Magazine Newsletter 2012 (Exercises, How to Walk, Pack load tips,)
Other
Backpack food and recipes - cooking
Hiking technique
Stores/Mail Order
See Outdoor Products (REI, Campmor, EMS)
Rentals
Health:
Water contanimation: see Traveler's Diarrhea on the trvel page and Water Purification here.
Blisters
Altitude Sickness
High Altitude Guide
Ticks and Lyme Disease
Dehydration
Hypothermia
Bee or Wasp stings | Anaphylaxis and EpiPen
Sun Protection
Safety:
Safety Management Planning
Lightning
Winter hiking
Map, Compass and GPS and Map Coordinate Systems
Sierra Nevada dangers
Sanitation
Lessons learned from misadventures
Map and Compas Skills
Bear Safety
General rules:
- Keep your camp clean
- Don't put food or clothes that have food smell in your tent
- Hang food from a tree or put in bear-proof containers.
- Make your presense know with noise so bears know you're comming
- Don't run or yell. Stand your ground; most charges are a bluff.
- If attacked - play dead with a grizzly - fight back with a black bear
See the bear page for more detail.
See Mountain_Lion page for safety in Mountain Lion country.
Wilderness Medicine
Backpacking
Trips - Places
See: Places for general information.
Top Hiking Trails
About trails (use, types, maintenance)
Some Sierra Club Trips I've been involved in.
National & International Sierra Club Outtings
2002 Sierra Club Tibetan Odyssey Trip
AT Backpack 2011
Mountaineering Clubs Around the World
Top Hiking Trails
World's best Treks
West
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Outtings (over 4,000 each year)
Pacific Crest Trail Association - Pacific Crest Trail Info.
Grand Canyon
Marin (Marin Headlands, Muir Woods, Mt. Tam)
Lake Tahoe
Tahoe Rim Trail
Day Hikes
Donner Summit & N. Tahoe
Homewood
East
Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC)
Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK)
New Jersey and New York City area (Trails, Clubs, Trips)
Washington Valley Park, Martinsville, NJ (Mountain Biking, Hiking, Birding)
Appalachian Trail
Manners - Ethics
Wilderness Manners at the Sierra Club
See:  TreadLightly.org - Play Nice
and  Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics
The toilet paper problem - Going to the bathroom.
Books:
The Backpackers Handbook, Chris Townsend
Joy of Backpacking: Your Complete Guide to Attaining Pure Happiness in the Outdoors, Brian Beffort
The Backpacker's Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skills by Rick Curtis
Backpacker & Hiker's Handbook, by WIlliam Kemsley Jr.
The Complete Walker, by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
Other Book Lists: backpacking.net
Some personal stories:
Mt Tallac 2010
Links:
Maps
Top Hiking Trails
Backpacking, Hiking, Camping Equipment Overview and links.
Expert Advice: Camping & Hiking at REI: Hiking , Backpacking
Brian's Backpacking Blog -
Sierra Nevada Backpacking - books, gear
Backpacking 101 at Backpacker Magazine
25 Habits of Highly Effective Hikers", Aug., 2008, Backpacker Mag.
Sierra Club Knapsack Committee Web Site (2004)
Getting in shape
Wilderness Backpacking and Hiking - Tips, Gear, Resources
Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
Backpacker's Field Manual Web Site, Rick Curtis
Backpacking, Hiking & Camping Articles at Suite101.com
Vacation (National Parks, Adventure parks, ...)
www.outdoored.com
Temperature Humidity Index (THI) and Wind chill (Heat Exhaustion, Heat stroke, frostbite, hypothermia)
Outdoor Emergency/Survival Products and Notes
Products: Outdoor Stores / Web Shopping, Search & Rescue (SAR), Personal 2-way radio,
Binoculars, Tents, Digital Cameras
Camp Chairs
Hammocks
Mountaineering
Rock Climbing
Travelers Health (Traveler's diarrhea (TD),
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS))
Wilderness Medicine (First Aid, Medical Kits)
Water Containers (Camelback, Nalgene, Sigg, ...)
Hydration
The Ultimate Camping Guide
Hitting the Trails! Total Body Trail Workout - Primally Inspired
Hiking tips
101+Hiking tips
Alcohol Stoves (can stove)
Mountain Cocktails
Trails.com
Camp Hygiene by Buck Tilton from the Wilderness Medicine Institute
Information Resources at Campmor
Building a campfire at Boots and Blisters
Survival Topics
Privies
Nature-Deficit Disorder
last updated 8 Nov 2009
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