(Ebook) Dead Reckoning: Learning from Accidents in the Outdoors by Emma Walker ISBN 9781493052790, 1493052799, 2020055300, 2020055301

(Ebook) Dead Reckoning: Learning from Accidents in the Outdoors by Emma Walker ISBN 9781493052790, 1493052799, 2020055300, 2020055301

More than 100 years later, we’re nearly always surrounded bytechnology. We have GPS devices, smartphones that talk to satellites, up-todatemaps printed on waterproof paper, and reliable compasses. We havepersonal locator beacons and satellite phones we can use in case ofemergency. We have marked, well-kept trails and expensive gear to keep uswarm and dry.Dead reckoning is what you use when all that fails.Of course, most of the time nothing goes wrong. The weather is fine.The bears keep their distance. The waves never become unmanageable.And even when things aren’t quite what we expect, we’re usually able tocompensate. We pull out our rain jackets and use our bear spray and paddleback to shore when the whitecaps pick up.But what happens when none of that works?That’s what this book is about—the times when things don’t go asplanned and people find themselves in way over their heads. Sometimesthey’re close calls (I’ve had plenty of those). Sometimes they end intragedy. Dead reckoning is a navigational technique, but in this context, it’sanother way of preparing yourself. What do you do when the direpossibilities you know are associated with traveling in wild places come tofruition?If you know what’s out there, it’s easier to stay alive.