Woman In The Wild The Everywomans Guide To Hiking Camping And Backcountry Travel 1st Susan Joy Paul by Susan Joy Paul 9781493049752, 1493049755, 2020047862, 2020047863 instant download after payment.

If so many women were interested in getting outside, why weren’t more of
them out there? Talking to them after my presentations, I got my answer. They
wanted to explore the backcountry, but they didn’t know where to
start. Some had joined hiking groups that hadn’t worked out. The
people who ran them tended to take a militant approach to the whole
experience. There was an overriding sense of competition, with the
experienced members held in high regard, while people new to the
outdoors were looked down on and even castigated for not learning
the skills fast enough, not being strong enough, or not being fast
enough. These women didn’t want to compete—they just wanted to
learn how to enjoy the backcountry safely and without getting lost. I
believed them, because I’d encountered similar situations when I
started out: hiking groups led by gruff, overbearing taskmasters who
thought their job was to whip you into shape and put you down when
you didn’t measure up to their standards. I was lucky enough to find
people who didn’t treat women this way, or I, too, may have given up
on the backcountry.
This book will give you everything you need to get started in the
back-country, and lots of insider info from someone who’s been
there. But it’s just the beginning. Once you take steps to become a
woman in the wild, you’ll want to seek your own experiences. Read
more, take courses, and find people to learn with, and from. And get
out there. Because a woman in the wild is the best kind of woman to
be.