[at-l] Survival/Backpacking Courses &/or Books

[andrew@aspco.com (Andrew Peskin)]

I can not recommend Byron Kerns of http://www.mountainshepherd.com/ highly
enough.  He offers a few different types of curses, and is a really down to
earth good guy.  Your friend can not go wrong taking one of his courses.

Andrew

PS - I have NO affiliation with, nor interest in, Mountain Shepherd, except that
I am a satisfied attendee of his courses.


William Neal wrote:

> A friend who has the next year off is seriously thinking about traveling the
> US (and possibly Canada and Mexico and possibly Costa Rico) and doing some
> state park camping and some backwoods camping.  He is taking his family with
> him.  So he asked me to recommend some books and possibly a course or two
> that might be helpful.
>
> The family is not total couch potatoes and they are not totally ignorant
> about camping, but my friend said to pretend they are.  Their ages range
> from about 9 to 18 for the kids (who will be home schooled while on the
> trip), 46 for the wife, and 55 for the husband (at the time of the trip).
> They will be gone for almost the whole year and want to start preparing now.
>
> I recommended the Tom Brown books and the courses he teaches.  Any other
> suggestions?
>
> William , The Turtle
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