(Ebook) Wilderness 101: Knowledge, Skills, and Fundamentals for Every Adventurer by Maurice L. Phipps ISBN 9781493065035, 1493065033

(Ebook) Wilderness 101: Knowledge, Skills, and Fundamentals for Every Adventurer by Maurice L. Phipps ISBN 9781493065035, 1493065033

Since my early days of outdoor adventuring, I have gone through trainingwith the British Canoe Union, the Australian Canoe Federation, and theWilderness Education Association. I have worked at mountain outdoorpursuits centers, started a private outdoor school in the United Kingdomand the Mitta Mitta Canoe Club in Australia, worked for the WildernessEducation Association in the United States, and taught in universities formore than 30 years. I have both attended and taught courses in differentcountries and experienced outdoor activities in the United Kingdom, NorthAmerica, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Central America, and theCaribbean.My research in universities included different aspects of outdooractivities, including leadership, group dynamics, outdoor instruction, energyuse in climbing, and snow and ice axe techniques. My teaching inuniversities included one- to five-week expedition courses in the Tetons, theWind River Range, Colorado, upstate New York, Yellowstone (winter andsummer), Texas, and North Carolina.One of the university courses I taught for many years focused on how toavoid the need for survival techniques when heading into the backcountry. Ilearned much from the legendary mountaineer Paul Petzoldt when Iapprenticed with him on his last Teton Wilderness Education Associationcourse and then cotaught expedition courses with him. One of his tenetswas the idea of avoiding survival situations. The course that I taught on thissubject was rooted in his beliefs and was very popular with students. Thiswas the impetus to write this book and enable people to go into the wildoutdoors with more knowledge than I did or when Paul did when heclimbed the much more technical Grand Teton when he was 16. The idea ofthis book is to show the reader what you don’t know, or, as Paul used tooften say, “Know what you know and know what you don’t know.”