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  • Hiking for Beginners: 7 Steps to Becoming a Capable Hiker

  • By: Alan Greenfield
  • Narrated by: Jason Belvill
  • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Hiking for Beginners: 7 Steps to Becoming a Capable Hiker

By: Alan Greenfield
Narrated by: Jason Belvill
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Publisher's summary

Hiking for Beginners will help you become a capable hiker in just seven steps, allowing you to explore nature and the outdoors across the world and in your own backyard. Hiking remains one of the favorite and most popular pastimes for people throughout America and around the World. Hiking for Beginners will help people who have maybe not been avid hikers learn how to do prepare and carry out their hiking excursions and will provide great tips and refreshers for people who have already been hiking.

Among other things, you will learn:

  • How to select a hiking trail
  • Basic conditioning for hiking
  • What gear will be useful for hiking of various types
  • Hikers' etiquette and unwritten rules
  • The physical aspect of hiking, and ways to build your hiking conditioning
  • Insider tips on hiking for your time on the trail as well as gear selection

This audiobook is perfect for anyone who is looking to get outdoors and enjoy the trails all around them.

Alan Greenfield is a respected author in the world of hiking and the outdoors, and also wrote Hiking the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine.

©2019 Lakeshore Lab LLC (P)2021 Lakeshore Lab LLC
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good info

clear, understandable info on how to enjoy and stay safe on your journey. well written tips.

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Good advice

Great info. I learned a lot of things I didn’t know before this. Worth the read

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Basic beginner book

A helpful guide for new hikers. Gives a basic overview of what is needed for hiking from conditioning to nutrition to first aid and safety.

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good info for a beginner to begin

good intro for a beginner hiker, but I would have liked more depth, especially regarding gear

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great book for all levels

easy listen and informative even for an intermediate hiker. great refresher. will keep in my library.

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