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Everyday Wisdom: 1,001 Expert Tips for Hikers (Backpacker Magazine) | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Berger
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 371325
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 207
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0898865239
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.51
EAN: 9780898865233
ASIN: 0898865239
Publication Date: September 1997
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Amazon.com Review
Gathering tips from outdoor experts is just as important as packing the right gear and bringing a map. In Everyday Wisdom, Karen Berger offers amateurs and experienced backpackers alike practical problem-solving advice that can lead to more enjoyable adventures in the backcountry--from preventing blisters to finding and patching an air-mattress hole to treating a case of poison ivy. Berger is also a strong proponent of trail improvisation, and shares ideas for improvising with items you might have packed or items found in the natural world: for example, a "cheese cloth can be used as a prefilter, bandage, mosquito netting, or coffee filter" and vegetation along the trail, such as "wild onions, dandelion leaves, Indian yamparoot and other wild edibles can liven up a one-pot meal." In other words, Everyday Wisdom is filled with the sort of information that every outdoors enthusiast can use. --Jenny Burritt
Product Description
This one-stop, easy-to-use collection of practical advice, time-saving tips, problem-solving techniques, brilliant improvisations, and Everyday Wisdom shows hikers how to make their way and make do in the backcountry. The secret is preparing for the predictable and solving problems by avoiding them. Learn about the basics, food and kitchen, travel across backcountry terrain, creating comfort, weather issues, staying healthy, water, field repairs, equipment maintenance between trips, and a whole lot more. Can't find the hole in the air mattress? Need tips for backcountry meals? A surprise cold front has rolled in... Need some improvised gloves, fast? Everyday Wisdom will help. Knowing a few seemingly small tricks will enable backpackers to take big strides in increasing their comfort, safety, preparation, and improvisational skills. This guide is a source of to-the-point, practical hints and tips that only a seasoned expert could bring together.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Save your money August 31, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everyday Wisdom has a few good tips, not 1001. I would recommend The Backpackers Handbook by Chris Townsend, over both this book and the Hiking Light Handbook. Save your money and by the one book by Townsend instead of these two.
 GREAT BOOK! January 17, 2000
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
THis is a great book for the beginners all the way to the experts. It gives 1001 helpful tips that are very useful when applied in the field. As a beginner, I found this extordinarly useful. Karen Berger gives tips from the best way to lace your boots to simple menu planning. There is also a section on repairing your gear. If you don't all ready own this book, I recommend that your invest your money and buy it.
Well written, practical guide to the backcountry September 3, 1999
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Ms. Berger covers the essentials and also provides little tips and suggestions that are usualy aquired knowledge from extensive experience in outdoor living. The book is a very practical addition to any novice's library. One facet I appreciate is her approach to preventing challenges on the trail through pre-planning and common sense. This is the kind of book I would, and intend to use as a classroom book for the scouts and new adult leaders in our Boy Scout troop in the future. Rather than drawing from the myriad ofsources available, this concise book offer me all I need in basic instruction material. Coupled with 30 years of experience in introducing youth to wilderness living in an ecologically sound manner it makes my volunteer committment much easier to accomplish. Additionally, in a time when more women are outdoors with their sons, Ms. Berger adequately addresses the outdoor living skills and information women always search for and in many cases are not covered in other reference materials. Bravo, Ms. Berger!
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