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Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Crossing Over Snow

Mike Zawaski

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Description:* A must-have guide for those extending their hiking season during spring and fall months, looking for additional information on safe snow hiking* Features 50 black & white photos and 15 illustrations* An easy-to-use guide for safe travel over snow for all outdoor recreationistsSnow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Moving Across Snow (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series) is a comprehensive how-to book covering all the essential techniques for safe and efficient movement across snow fields. Author Mike Zawaski, a longtime instructor with Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), has decades of snow hiking and snow-travel experience. Whether you're a hiker, scrambler, backcountry skier, climber, or general winter traveler, you will discover fundamental information including:* Picking the right gear and other pre-trip planning: ice ax, crampons, clothing, and essentials for snow safety * How to choose a route: evaluating snowpack and picking out the fall line * Basics of kicking steps: walking flat-footed, front pointing, duck stepping, stepping efficiently with crampons or ski/snowboard boots, and more * Using your ice ax: traversing, chopping steps, glissading, self arresting, and utilizing a range of ice-ax positions * Snow hazards: elephant traps, cornices, sunburn, snow bridges, and post-holes * Lesson plans: how to share your knowledge with others With Snow Travel one can learn to safely hike in the snow, avoid snow hazards, navigate dangerous snowpack and enjoy the backcountry, high country, or even your own backyard.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Crossing Over Snow. To get started finding Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Crossing Over Snow, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 208

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1594857202

Description: * A must-have guide for those extending their hiking season during spring and fall months, looking for additional information on safe snow hiking* Features 50 black & white photos and 15 illustrations* An easy-to-use guide for safe travel over snow for all outdoor recreationistsSnow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Moving Across Snow (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert Series) is a comprehensive how-to book covering all the essential techniques for safe and efficient movement across snow fields. Author Mike Zawaski, a longtime instructor with Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), has decades of snow hiking and snow-travel experience. Whether you're a hiker, scrambler, backcountry skier, climber, or general winter traveler, you will discover fundamental information including:* Picking the right gear and other pre-trip planning: ice ax, crampons, clothing, and essentials for snow safety * How to choose a route: evaluating snowpack and picking out the fall line * Basics of kicking steps: walking flat-footed, front pointing, duck stepping, stepping efficiently with crampons or ski/snowboard boots, and more * Using your ice ax: traversing, chopping steps, glissading, self arresting, and utilizing a range of ice-ax positions * Snow hazards: elephant traps, cornices, sunburn, snow bridges, and post-holes * Lesson plans: how to share your knowledge with others With Snow Travel one can learn to safely hike in the snow, avoid snow hazards, navigate dangerous snowpack and enjoy the backcountry, high country, or even your own backyard.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Crossing Over Snow. To get started finding Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking, and Crossing Over Snow, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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