The Packraft Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Packraft Handbook write by Luc Mehl. This book was released on 2022-01-12. The Packraft Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A staple for paddlers.... [The Packraft Handbook has] now become the bible for outdoor recreators taking their inflatable rafts into the backcountry." ― Anchorage Daily News 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Guidebook Winner Alaska-based author is a leading expert on wilderness travel Emphasis on skill progression and safety applies to wide range of outdoor water recreation Vibrant illustrations and photos inform and inspire The Packraft Handbook is a comprehensive guide to packrafting, with a strong emphasis on skill progression and safety. Readers will learn to maneuver through river features and open water, mitigate risk with trip planning and boat control, and how to react when things go wrong. Beginners will find everything they need to know to get started--from packraft care to proper paddling position as well as what to wear and how to communicate. Illustrated for visual learners and featuring stunning photography, The Packraft Handbook has something to offer all packrafters and other whitewater sports enthusiasts.
The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook
The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook write by Alan S. Kesselheim. This book was released on 2012-11-13. The Wilderness Paddler's Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Wilderness Paddler’s Handbook offers paddlers of any stripe Alan Kesselheim’s personal, engaging writing and his unsurpassed experience. Helpful sidebars, interspersed throughout the book, provide step-by-step instructions on all critical technical considerations. Everything a new or experienced paddler can expect to encounter is included, from trip planning, choosing the right gear, and packing, to camping, cooking, modifying your boat, and dealing with conditions on every kind of water. Whether it’s how to pick the right partner, negotiate a tricky rapid, go solo, or bring the entire family, it’s all here in this entertaining, inspiring, and informative guide. Alan Kesselheim has paddled thousands of wilderness miles – alone, with his wife, Marypat, and with his young children strapped into the canoe like babies in car seats. He’s paddled fast-moving rivers, windswept lakes, and quiet ponds. (One trip took him on a 13-month, 2000-mile journey from Grande Cache, Alberta, to Baker Lake in the Northwest Territories.) He’s also one of North America’s preeminent canoeing writers, and his hard-won opinions are highly respected.
Packrafting
Packrafting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Packrafting write by Molly Absolon. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Packrafting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Don’t Be Left Up a River… Without a PackraftPackrafts are lightweight, inflatable boats that can be carried in a backpack, on a bicycle or in a duffel bag. These compact, tough personal watercrafts are used to float rivers, run rapids, cross lakes, and even drop waterfalls, often as part of a broader wilderness expedition that includes backpacking. Packrafting is rapidly gaining in popularity, with increasingly varied options for gear, ranging by size, cost, and function. With the number of guided packrafting trips on the rise, this is the perfect book for the beginner interested in the up-and-coming sport.
Packrafting!
Packrafting! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Packrafting! write by Roman Dial. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Packrafting! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Packrafting! is about exploring wilderness and whitewater by packraft, a light-weight, portable boat. In this book, you'll learn about packrafting gear and technique, as well as the myriad applications for packrafting. Combine packrafting with mountaineering, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, or trekking to create your own wild adventures. Learn the techniques behind running both stillwater and whitewater in a packraft, opening up new possibilities for water travel from Canada's canoe country to vast Alaskan rivers to the steep creeks in your backyard"--Backcover.
Downriver
Downriver - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Downriver write by Heather Hansman. This book was released on 2019-03-19. Downriver available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever. Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.
