[at-l] Backpacking Books for Women.

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Hadn't gotten around to responding myself but I think GMC's right on the 
money.

The only women's issues that I know of on the trail can be dealt with by 
taking extra ziploc baggies or visiting www.keeper.com.

If there are other perceived issues for women on the trail, I suspect those 
same issues apply to men as well and/or are not trail specific issues.  I 
suspect most safety issues for women on the trail are issues only brought up 
by friends and family not familiar with the hiking community.  FWIW, I feel 
much safer and more protected on the trail from human malice than I do off 
the trail.  And any non-human issues I might have to deal with have nothing 
to do with being female.

Just my two cents.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99

>From: Pat Villeneuve <patv@ukans.edu>
>Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 23:03:12 -0600
>
>You know, maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't see that much 
>difference
>between being a female and male hiker. (I can answer the period question in 
>a
>paragraph or less.)
>Give Me Chocolate
>
>OIdMaster@aol.com wrote:
>
> > A good book to start with is by the recently departed, and deeply missed
> > Beverly Hugo (aka Maine Rose), 'Women and Thruhiking on the Appalachian
> > Trail'. Adrianne Hall, author of 'A Journey North' (excellent AT read) 
>has
> > published 'Backpacking,A Woman's Guide', a book I have yet to read. 
>Don't
> > neglect reading fine authors like Karen Berger, Cindy Ross, and Victoria
> > Louge. If you seek to point a female hiker toward an internet forum, 
>there's
> > a woman's hiking e-list that is very active.
> > Old
> > oidmaster@aol.com

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