Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail
Blending sage advice with personal experiences and anecdotes, this unconventional book is an unusually thoughtful account of long-distance trekking on the Appalachian Trail. Mueser draws upon interviews and questionnaire data gathered from over 100 long distance hikers hoofing it through the Applachian Mountains.

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Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail
Blending sage advice with personal experiences and anecdotes, this unconventional book is an unusually thoughtful account of long-distance trekking on the Appalachian Trail. Mueser draws upon interviews and questionnaire data gathered from over 100 long distance hikers hoofing it through the Applachian Mountains.

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Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail

Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail

by Roland Mueser
Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail

Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail

by Roland Mueser

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Blending sage advice with personal experiences and anecdotes, this unconventional book is an unusually thoughtful account of long-distance trekking on the Appalachian Trail. Mueser draws upon interviews and questionnaire data gathered from over 100 long distance hikers hoofing it through the Applachian Mountains.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780070444584
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 11/01/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 7.34(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Proving that no sacrifice is too great in the name of science, avid hiker Roland Mueser once devised a controlled experiment and carried it out during blackfly season in the woods and swamps near his New Jersey home: He ran a 4-mile course through the woods wearing DEET repellent on alternate days, and tallied the number of bites sustained during each run.

Roland is the author of several books, and his articles have appeared in Appalachia, the Colorado Mountain Club magazine T&T, and other outdoor journals. A retired physicist, Roland is a former member of the engineering research faculty at Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University and was a research scientist for Bell Laboratories. After retiring, he thru-hiked the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail in 1989.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Thru-Hiking Tradition

Chapter 2 Why Thru-Hike

Chapter 3 Who Hikes with Whom

Chapter 4 Older Hikers

Chapter 5 Physical Condition and Injuries

Chapter 6 Trail Names

Chapter 7 Footwear

Chapter 8 Packs, Tents, Stoves, and Guides

Chapter 9 Sleeping on the Trail

Chapter 10 Clothing and Raingear

Chapter 11 Comforts and Amenities

Chapter 12 How Fast, How Far

Chapter 13 Water: Its Joys and Perils

Chapter 14 Food, Calories, and Weight

Chapter 15 Animals on the Trail

Chapter 16 Insects and Repelling Them

Chapter 17 Along the Trail

Chapter 18 Trail People

Chapter 19 Looking Back

Appendix 1 The Questionnaire and Its Statistics

Appendix 2 Questionnaire Summaries

Appendix 3 Survey Participants

Bibliography

Index

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