Backpacking Tips (How To Climb Series)

More than a how-to book, this fully updated and expanded take-along volume from veteran FalconGuide authors includes clever, practical tricks of the trade that only long experience on the trail can provide. Full of checklists, handy diagrams, and tips for everything from buying a pack to making tasty trailside meals, this book has all the information backpackers need to make backpacking more fun, relaxing, and enjoyable.

Bill Schneider, the co-founder of Falcon Publishing, is a veteran outdoorsman and author of more than twenty books on backpacking and natural history in the American West. He lives in Helena, Montana.

Since 1993, Russ Schneider has been a backpacking, rafting, and fishing guide with Glacier Wilderness Guide in West Glacier, Montana. He has also served as an editor for many of Falcon's how-to books. His numerous books include Best Hikes Along the Continental Divide, Fishing Glacier National Park, and Hiking the Columbia River Gorge.