Good Outdoor Book Lately?

Barney · 07-07-2012, 12:59 PM

Have you read any good book on outdoor gear/skills/activities lately. I've discovered that what you can pick up from books is astounding, no matter what's your skill set. If it's a new trick or two from an entire book than count me in for reading it.

Greatoutdoors · 07-09-2012, 11:10 PM

I haven't read one yet, but I am waiting for my copy of 98.6 degrees The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive by Cody Lundeen to come in the mail.

emilyblack06 · 07-10-2012, 01:17 AM

I just bought "Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold , My friends told me that the it was good. I'm excited to read this.

wvbreamfisherman · 07-10-2012, 09:02 AM

Just finished "Awol on the Appalachian Trail" and Skywalker- Close encounters on the Appalachian Trail" . Also reading Ernest Thompson Seton's "The Arctic Prairies: A canoe-journey of 2,000 miles in search of the Caribou".

Just downloaded "Hunting with the Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope.

LOVE my Kindle! LOL

Gondor · 07-10-2012, 11:06 AM

I'm currently reading a few books on creating survival/bug out kits. I particularly like John McCann's "How to Build a Perfect Survival Kit". Little outdated but this oldtimer knows what he's talking about.

Marshmallow · 07-26-2012, 09:04 AM

I picked up a copy of the Eddie Bauer "Guide to Family Camping" recently at a garage sale. I paid $.50 for it and have found some great tips in it already. It's also an interesting read.

Pathfinder1 · 07-26-2012, 09:56 AM

Hi...

A while back I ordered a copy of The Outward Bound Wilderness First-aid Handbook.

It contains a lot of information, but is completely devoid of photos, and has a limited amount of drawings.

I think it would be much better as a text book vs a self-teaching medium.

Has good info on first aid kit contents.

Don't know when...if ever...I'll finish reading it.

wvbreamfisherman · 07-26-2012, 10:26 AM

The NOLS Handbook of Wilderness Medicine was available for free on Kindle a while back. I downloaded it. Not a lot different from EMT-B in scope, but more oriented toward longer term care/ evacuation decisions.

Also just downloaded "A year on the Allegheny" about a guy living a year in his cabin on the Allegheny National Forest in PA.

Gondor · 07-26-2012, 11:04 AM

I'm not buying Kindle books anymore. I want to return to the old style of reading. I'm sick and tired of reading stuff on screen. Plus, the feeling of reading a real book is awesome!

ppine · 07-26-2012, 11:07 AM

"Young Men and Fire" by Norman MacLean. Smokejumpers in 1949 on the Mann Gulch fire on the Missouri River in Montana.