Camping's Top Secrets: A Lexicon of Camping Tips Only the Experts Know (Falcon Guides Camping) - Softcover

Camping's Top Secrets goes beyond the scope of traditional camping books, revealing hundreds of field-tested tips to enhance your next outdoor adventure. With clear descriptions organized alphabetically for quick reference, this guide by veteran camping consultant Cliff Jacobson divulges the best-kept secrets of the experts.Get insider tips on: forecasting the weatherrigging a canoe or boattreating drinking waterusing tents and other types of sheltersdealing with animal and insect encounterscooking and cookwaretreating common ailmentsusing maps and GPS unitscamping with kidschoosing camping clothes, boots, sleeping bags, and gearand much more!

Cliff Jacobson is one of North America's most respected outdoors writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is an outdoors skills instructor and a professional outfitter and guide, a canoeing and camping consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on canoeing and camping. Cliff recently retired from teaching middle school environmental science and now splits his time between canoeing and camping, and sharing his love for the sport by writing and teaching about it. In 2003 the American Canoe Association presented Cliff with the Legends of Paddling Award and inducted him into the ACA Hall of Fame.