Backpacker magazine's Using a GPS - Softcover

Grubbs, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762756551 ISBN 13: 9780762756551

Publisher: Falcon Guides, 2011

Synopsis

Backpacker's Using a GPS: Digital Trip Planning, Recording, and Sharing is a complete guide to the digital mapping revolution including how to do it and how to join it. Plan your trip, record it with GPS, edit and enhance your maps (photos and videos), and share with the world. Include out-in-the-field instructions for using a GPS; how GPS works; basic field techniques; computer-based mapping with GPS; conventional navigation skills, etc. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.

About this title

About the Author

The author has a serious problem- he doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up. Meanwhile, he's done such things as wildland fire fighting, running a mountain shop, flying airplanes, shooting photos, and writing books. He's a backcountry skier, climber, figure skater, mountain biker, amateur radio operator, river runner, and sea kayaker- but the thing that really floats his boat is hiking and backpacking. No matter what else he tries, the author always come back to hiking- especially long, rough, cross-country trips in places like the Grand Canyon. Some people never learn. But what little he has learned, he's willing share with you- via his books, of course, but also via his websites, blogs, and whatever works.

From the Back Cover

Backpacker magazine's Using a GPS brings you essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Learn how to use a GPS to plan and record your trip, and how to edit and enhance your maps and share them with world. Get a handle on a range of other essentials, from basic field techniques and how a GPS works to computer-based mapping with GPS, as well as conventional navigation skills. Perfect for pack or pocket, this book breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos and illustrations complement concise, clear text, introducing you to the basic and intermediate skillsneeded to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. Also available: Backpacker magazine'sCampsite CookingOutdoor Survival Predicting WeatherTrailside Navigation

Edition details

• Publisher: Falcon Guides
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762756551
• ISBN 13: 9780762756551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96