Wilderness 101 Knowledge Skills And Fundamentals For Every Adventurer 1st Maurice L Phipps by Maurice L. Phipps 9781493065035, 1493065033 instant download after payment.

Since my early days of outdoor adventuring, I have gone through training
with the British Canoe Union, the Australian Canoe Federation, and the
Wilderness Education Association. I have worked at mountain outdoor
pursuits centers, started a private outdoor school in the United Kingdom
and the Mitta Mitta Canoe Club in Australia, worked for the Wilderness
Education Association in the United States, and taught in universities for
more than 30 years. I have both attended and taught courses in different
countries and experienced outdoor activities in the United Kingdom, North
America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Central America, and the
Caribbean.
My research in universities included different aspects of outdoor
activities, including leadership, group dynamics, outdoor instruction, energy
use in climbing, and snow and ice axe techniques. My teaching in
universities included one- to five-week expedition courses in the Tetons, the
Wind River Range, Colorado, upstate New York, Yellowstone (winter and
summer), Texas, and North Carolina.
One of the university courses I taught for many years focused on how to
avoid the need for survival techniques when heading into the backcountry. I
learned much from the legendary mountaineer Paul Petzoldt when I
apprenticed with him on his last Teton Wilderness Education Association
course and then cotaught expedition courses with him. One of his tenets
was the idea of avoiding survival situations. The course that I taught on this
subject was rooted in his beliefs and was very popular with students. This
was the impetus to write this book and enable people to go into the wild
outdoors with more knowledge than I did or when Paul did when he
climbed the much more technical Grand Teton when he was 16. The idea of
this book is to show the reader what you don’t know, or, as Paul used to
often say, “Know what you know and know what you don’t know.”