You're no idiot, of course. You know how to make the bed, start the oven, even keep the squirrels out of the backyard bird feeder. But when it comes to pitching a tent, lighting a campfire, and warding off bears, you feel like Lucy and Ricky on their camping trip. Don't try to 'splain just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Camping and Hiking, Second Edition, teaches you the simple skills you need to take the trauma out of camping. This updated edition can help you feel confident about choosing and using your equipment...even in the middle of winter! In this Complete Idiot's guide, you get:

A guide so thorough it will send you packing... Backpacking remains one of the most popular, and inexpensive, outdoor activities in America. The Complete Idiot's Guide (r) to Backpacking and Hiking helps anyone prepare and plan for a rewarding adventure. Covers planning, training, shopping and packing for the trip. -How to live on the trail -First aid and other safety tips -Practical time- and money-saving hints -What gear is necessary and what isn't -Special considerations when travelling with groups or pets

Your straightforward guide for succesfully enjoying the great outdoors You love the great outdoors, but you’re not always sure the great outdoors loves you. You can pitch a tent, start a campfire, build furniture by lashing tree branches together – in theory anyway! But while you may not have gotten your Girl Scout Gold Award, or your Eagle Scout with cluster, you can still enjoy a night out under the stars with those near and dear to you, or even work towards becoming a more serious outdoorsman, right? Sure as a bear lives in the woods, Camping for Dummies shows you how to get out there and enjoy the best Mother Nature has to offer. With the helpful advice this common sense guide provides, you’ll be prepared when it comes to: Destination Gear Shelter Clothing Food Weather Safety Written by journalist Michael Hodgson, veteran of Utah’s Eco-Challenge and numerous other outdoor adventures, Camping for Dummies cuts out gear-head jargon and antiquated methods to give you, plain and simple, what you need to know to make the smart choices that lead to great adventures. You’ll find out: How to tie a bear bag The delicious caveman style for cooking fresh fish The limitations of GPS How to predict the weather by observing birds, frogs, and insects Ten survival essentials How to go canoe, kayak, or bicycle camping What features make a good backpack, boot, and other equipment When and how to bring along children Whether the dictionary definition of “tenderfoot” has your picture next to it or you already consider wilderness your home away from home, you’ll appreciate this handy, concise reference. Full of illustrations, diagrams, and directions for finding additional camping resources, Camping for Dummies is your complete ticket to America’s great outdoors.

If you're a newbie to the outdoors, you're going to want to want this book. This book goes over all the introductory points of survival in the outdoors. The book goes into detail about the basic facts of hiking, camping, backpacking, and hunting. The book also covers the attitude needed to survive in the worst possible conditions. They're also chapters devoted to all the basic gear that is recommended and required when you go to hunt, backpack, or camp. The book explores several options for camping and backpacking during the day and overnight. This also gives you pricing recommendations on the different types of hiking and camping boots as well as different hunting knives that are easily re-sharpened on the go I could provide the most accurate cuts for your hunting kills. When you search online for survival books, this should be one of the first results you find. If you search online for backpacking books, again this book should come up. If you search online for introduction to camping books or books on the deer needed to catch deer, this is a plausible book for that. You could do your whole trip based on this book. This book is designed for those who don't have experience in the wild or have very little experience in the wild. All throughout the book there is a theme of building stamina. Rather book, it is suggested to go on smaller trips to build up your stamina before going on the big adventure. This whole book is talking about prepping for your big adventure. One needs to be physically fit before they go on their big adventure. You have to be at least walking every day in order to do one of these big trips. This book will teach you how to build up the stamina to go on big trips often. This book teaches you how to, in some cases, take the comforts of home with you. Some parts of the book talk about improvising without the comforts of home on the go.If you need encouragement for the outdoors, this book will give it to you. This book is for more than just a guide full of products that you can get and Amazon recommendations. Is an instruction book for how to make your trips the most successful and movies but harmful. So, before you go on your next trip, be sure to pick up a copy of this book. Read through it a couple times until the information sinks in. Take it with you on the trip that you go on and follow it's advice. Rest assured, following that advice in the world will keep you safe and secure. Also, please be sure to stay tuned for the advanced survival guide coming soon. Feel free to leave your reviews on Amazon. We look forward to seeing your input on what we could put in the following book. Be sure to recommend this book to others once you read it.

“Leonard’s durable tome (seriously, the cover is rubber) is stuffed with so many tips about surviving in the wild, you’ll be able to leave your smartphone behind.” —Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books This easy introduction to outdoor life will ensure that even a novice won’t get lost in the woods while finding an activity he loves to do in the great outdoors--whether it’s hiking a 14er or camping on ice. With 400 strategies for engaging in the outdoors, and expert tips and tricks, Surviving the Great Outdoors makes Mother Nature easier to understand than ever before. Brendan Leonard, writer, filmmaker, and outdoor adventurer, shows the reader how rewarding it can be to live life away from the computer and get outside. From mountain climbing, to skiing, sledding, and sailing, Leonard shows that you don’t need to be a risk taker to enjoy the outdoors. And if the reader does find himself at the point of man vs. nature, Leonard shares survival skills from how to bandage a wound and read a topographical map, to how to drive on sand and remove a tick from your skin—all organized thematically and written in short takeaway entries with helpful line drawings. Bound in a uniquely rugged (and waterproof!) PVC cover material, Surviving the Great Outdoors is a friendly way into the outdoor lifestyle, whether you're looking to dabble or go all in.