Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail

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:	9780071708388
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/22/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	11 MB
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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 Tradition Chapter 2 Why Thru-Hike Chapter 3 Who Hikes with Whom Chapter 4 Older Hikers Chapter 5 Physical Condition and Injuries Chapter 6 Trail Names Chapter 7 Footwear Chapter 8 Packs, Tents, Stoves, and Guides Chapter 9 Sleeping on the Trail Chapter 10 Clothing and Raingear Chapter 11 Comforts and Amenities Chapter 12 How Fast, How Far Chapter 13 Water: Its Joys and Perils Chapter 14 Food, Calories, and Weight Chapter 15 Animals on the Trail Chapter 16 Insects and Repelling Them Chapter 17 Along the Trail Chapter 18 Trail People Chapter 19 Looking Back Appendix 1 The Questionnaire and Its Statistics Appendix 2 Questionnaire Summaries Appendix 3 Survey Participants Bibliography Index