AMC's Mountain Skills Manual: The Essential Hiking and Backpacking Guide

This comprehensive guide, from the nation’s oldest outdoors club, covers the essential skills every hiker and backpacker needs to know. Novice and experienced outdoorspeople will appreciate this authoritative resource on trip planning, gear, food, navigation, and mountain safety, as well as ways to be an active steward of our trails and natural resources.

AMC’s Mountain Skills Manualis rooted in the best practices taught in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s outdoor leadership training program...