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Trekker's Handbook: Strategies to Enhance Your Journey (Backpacker)
Trekker's Handbook Strategies to Enhance Your Journey - Backpacker Author:Buck Tilton How to plan the wilderness experience known as trekkingin the U.S. and around the world. · This new "how-to" in the Backpacker magazine series, complements the magazines trekking guidebooks, also published by The Mountaineers Books — · Contains pre-trip, during the trip, and post-trip strategies for long-distance hiking — ... more »183; Buck Tilton is well-known as an outdoor writer and contributing editor for Backpacker magazine Trekking, n.: A wilderness excursion of 5-6 days or more where the focus is on the journey rather than the destination. Trekking is an experienceand distinctly different than thru-hiking long (hundred or thousand-mile) trails in the preparation, lifestyle, and time commitments involved. Buck Tilton takes you from planning the route (linking trails or finding loops) to tactical considerations (menus/ration planning, resupply, going lightweight) to making the most of your journey (life on the trail and the etiquette of section-hiking long trails).« less