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Fieldbook - Scouting's Manual of Basic and Advanced Skills for Outdoor Adventure
FOREWORD
For more than a hundred years, Scouting has introduced young people to adventure and taught them the craft of outdoor living and travel. Using skills and leadership learned while camping and hiking close to home, Scouts have gone on to climb our planet's highest peaks, explore its deepest oceans, survive in its most extreme environments, and cross the heavens to walk on the moon.
The skills and commitment to enjoy the outdoors responsibly aren't just for Scouts--they are for everyone who seeks to explore, to experience adventure, and to appreciate the natural world. That's also true of this manual. It's a book of basic knowledge for safe and comfortable backcountry activities and a guide to more advanced skills for exhilarating high adventures.
Fieldbook represents the collective knowledge and experience of countless outdoor experts, mountaineers, explorers, researchers, and Scouters. We hope that you find it to be a valuable resource for your own outdoor journeys and a trusted companion along the way.
For more than a hundred years, Scouting has introduced young people to adventure and taught them the craft of outdoor living and travel. Using skills and leadership learned while camping and hiking close to home, Scouts have gone on to climb our planet's highest peaks, explore its deepest oceans, survive in its most extreme environments, and cross the heavens to walk on the moon.
The skills and commitment to enjoy the outdoors responsibly aren't just for Scouts--they are for everyone who seeks to explore, to experience adventure, and to appreciate the natural world. That's also true of this manual. It's a book of basic knowledge for safe and comfortable backcountry activities and a guide to more advanced skills for exhilarating high adventures.
Fieldbook represents the collective knowledge and experience of countless outdoor experts, mountaineers, explorers, researchers, and Scouters. We hope that you find it to be a valuable resource for your own outdoor journeys and a trusted companion along the way.
435 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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September 11, 2016
The fifth in a series of books intended to be great resources for anyone who spends time out of doors. The pace of new editions has accelerated as the technology of the outdoors changes more rapidly. This one includes GPS navigation, ultra-light backpacking, and the latest in Leave No Trace.
It is easy to read, and it doesn't matter if you are a Scout for life, or have never had any contact with the organization. The contributors and advisors on the book is a who's who of the outdoors.
I found it easy to read, and totally accurate in the technical details. I'm reading it to update my outdoors knowledge to the latest thinking of the experts. Things change - if you want to stay an outdoor expert you have to change too.
It is easy to read, and it doesn't matter if you are a Scout for life, or have never had any contact with the organization. The contributors and advisors on the book is a who's who of the outdoors.
I found it easy to read, and totally accurate in the technical details. I'm reading it to update my outdoors knowledge to the latest thinking of the experts. Things change - if you want to stay an outdoor expert you have to change too.
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