Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail / Edition 1

by Roland Mueser

Overview

Blending sage advice with personal experiences and anecdotes, this unconventional book is an unusually thoughtful account of long-distance trekking on the Appalachian Trail. Mueser draws upon interviews and questionnaire data gathered from over 100 long distance hikers hoofing it through the Applachian Mountains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780070444584
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	1,086,388
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.34(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Proving that no sacrifice is too great in the name of science, avid hiker Roland Mueser once devised a controlled experiment and carried it out during blackfly season in the woods and swamps near his New Jersey home: He ran a 4-mile course through the woods wearing DEET repellent on alternate days, and tallied the number of bites sustained during each run.

Roland is the author of several books, and his articles have appeared in Appalachia, the Colorado Mountain Club magazine T&T, and other outdoor journals. A retired physicist, Roland is a former member of the engineering research faculty at Harvard University and Pennsylvania State University and was a research scientist for Bell Laboratories. After retiring, he thru-hiked the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail in 1989.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Thru-Hiking TraditionChapter 2 Why Thru-HikeChapter 3 Who Hikes with WhomChapter 4 Older HikersChapter 5 Physical Condition and InjuriesChapter 6 Trail NamesChapter 7 FootwearChapter 8 Packs, Tents, Stoves, and GuidesChapter 9 Sleeping on the TrailChapter 10 Clothing and RaingearChapter 11 Comforts and AmenitiesChapter 12 How Fast, How FarChapter 13 Water: Its Joys and PerilsChapter 14 Food, Calories, and WeightChapter 15 Animals on the TrailChapter 16 Insects and Repelling ThemChapter 17 Along the TrailChapter 18 Trail PeopleChapter 19 Looking BackAppendix 1 The Questionnaire and Its StatisticsAppendix 2 Questionnaire SummariesAppendix 3 Survey ParticipantsBibliographyIndex