Tag: camping

The Complete Walker

The Complete Walker

by Colin Fletcher This was my hiking handbook in the 70s and 80s. In the 70s I didn’t actually have this book, and all my hiking was done with friends family. I was just a teenager and wasn’t planning my own trips. But I found this book somewhere–on the bookshelf at summer camp? At my best friend’s house? In any case, Fletcher was not nearly so gear oriented as current writers.…

Beyond Backpacking

by Ray Jardine A classic backpacking manual. Jardine invented an integrated system for backpacking very light, with a pack weight of about 10 pounds (not including food and water). So, for a 5 day trip you might start with 8 pounds of food, and often carry 2 liters of water, and your total weight would be 22 pounds, and go down from there. I adopted his system.…