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Updates On The Trail Library

Posted in Book Reviews, Other, Trail Cooking, tagged , , on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A smattering of vintage trail and outdoor cookbooks showed up today and have been added to our ever expanding Trail Library. You just don’t see covers like this anymore! Love the Beefcake pose in jeans I also updated our list we have on what we are looking for here. ~Sarah

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Book Review: Trailside’s Trail Food

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A review of an older book, currently out of print, one that sits in our collection of trail cookbooks. Do you remember “Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure”? – it was a TV show on in the early 90′s that originally partnered with Backpacker Magazine, which was hosted by John Viehman (the then Executive Editor of [...]

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Book Review: The One Burner Gourmet

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Harriett Barker was in my eyes one of the pioneers of trail cooking and outdoor cookbooks. I have talked before about her second book, The Supermarket Backpacker – a book that I happen to love and has a prized spot in my large collection of outdoor cookbooks. The One-Burner Gourmet was her first outdoor cookbook, [...]

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Book Review: The Great Divide

Posted in Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A week or two ago one of the guys on one of the hiking forums sent me a care package of books to read (thanks!!) and in it was a copy of The Great Divide- A Walk Through American Along The Continental Divide by Stephen Pern. The book came out in 1987 originally and was [...]

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Old School Books: Gorp, Glop & Glue Stew

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, Other, Trail Cooking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you want to see how trail food was back 30, 40, 50 or more years ago one has to pull up a copy of the vintage book Gorp, Glop and Glue Stew. The book was written and contributed to by many of the pioneers of the hiking, backpacking and mountaineering world. A number of [...]

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Along The Road

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, Uncategorized, tagged on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Mike of TheBackcountry.org has recently brought out a coffee table style book of his photography. His book ‘Along The Road’ can be found here for sale. A very pretty book indeed! Take a look at the preview while you are checking it out as well. ~Sarah

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Still One Of My Favorite PCT Books – ‘Dances With Marmots’

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, tagged , , , on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It has been a number of years since I first read the first chapters of George’s book and I still think that Dances With Marmots – A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure is one of the best reads for wiling away long cold winters when one is dreaming of hiking. If you haven’t seen or read [...]

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‘The Boomer’s Guide To Lightweight Backpacking’ Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, hiking, Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning I received a copy of The Boomer’s Guide to Lightweight Backpacking: New Gear for Old People by Carol Corbridge. It is a print of Amato Books. It had shown up in my post office box and as I stood in the long line of holiday shippers I had a chance to crack it [...]

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