Rewild your life with the ultimate interactive guide to the great outdoors! Written by National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and record-breaking hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, this is the definitive, hands-on handbook for kids ready to step off the grid and into adventure.
Your Ticket to the Great Outdoors
Whether you're pitching a tent in your own backyard, exploring a local city park, or preparing to conquer your very first mountain trail, Outdoor School: Hiking and Camping is your ultimate companion for surviving and thriving in nature.
This isn't a dry manual full of rules―it’s an immersive, interactive field guide packed with real-world skills and awesome activities. Through clear, step-by-step instructions and vivid illustrations, you’ll master the essential tools of outdoor survival. Learn how to tie unbreakable knots, navigate with a compass, build a safe campfire, and practice "Leave No Trace" ethics to protect the planet.
So, lace up your boots, grab your gear, and get ready to turn the wilderness into your classroom!
Why Kids and Parents Will Love It
Written by a Real-Life Explorer: Author Jennifer Pharr Davis has hiked over 14,000 miles across six continents and once held the world record for the fastest trek of the Appalachian Trail. Kids get top-tier advice straight from a legendary pro!
Built for Real Adventure: Designed like an interactive explorer's notebook, this book features durable pages and rugged metal corners, meaning it’s quite literally built to be thrown into a backpack and taken out onto the trail.
Ultimate Screen-Free Fun: Packed with hands-on projects, immersive activities, and outdoor challenges, it's the perfect tool to get tweens and teens away from screens and into the fresh air.
Essential Life Skills: From basic first aid and reading weather patterns to campfire cooking and wildlife identification, this guide builds real confidence, independence, and self-reliance.
Jennifer Pharr Davis is a hiker, author, speaker, and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year who has covered over 14,000 miles of long distance trails on six different continents. In 2011, Jennifer covered the 2,185-mile Appalachian Trail in forty-six days, eleven hours, and twenty minutes, maintaining a remarkable average of forty-seven miles per day. By doing this, she claimed the overall (male or female) fastest known time on the “A.T.” and became the first woman to set the mark. Jennifer has also backpacked over 700 miles in her 2nd and 3rd Trimesters of Pregnancy, walked across the state of North Carolina while nursing her son, and set foot on a trail in all 50 states with her daughter.
Jennifer has authored books and written articles for the New York Times, Outside magazine, Backpacker, and Trail Runner. She is also a professional speaker and the founder and owner of Blue Ridge Hiking Company, a guiding service that strives “to make the wilderness accessible and enjoyable” for hikers of all ages, genders, and ability levels. She is also a former board member for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and an ambassador for the American Hiking Society. Jennifer lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband Brew and their daughter Charley and son Gus.
Haley Blevins has spent her life swimming the waters of Florida, hiking the mountains of western North Carolina, teaching elementary school children, playing and coaching soccer, and backpacking trails all over the US. After 14 years in the classroom, she took on a new challenge--tackling America’s longest distance hiking trails: the Appalachian Trail, Continental Divide Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Colorado Trail. She has walked over 10,000 miles of trail, and her mission is to share her love for the outdoors. She leads hikers of all abilities and backgrounds with the Blue Ridge Hiking Company in Asheville, NC.
Aliki Karkoulia is an illustrator and artist from Greece. Her work explores themes of childhood, nature and imaginary worlds. She is inspired by the world around her and has a deep passion to understand and highlight its most wonderful parts.
