Essential Outdoor Gear Manual: Equipment Care, Repair, and Selection

by David R. Getchell and Annie Getchell

Book Overview

Giving you almost all the information necessary to make objective buying decisions, this book helps save you money and make you a better backcountry traveller. It ranges from repairing zippers to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071357122
• ISBN13: 9780071357128
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Truly essential

This is a comprehensive and thorough guide to caring for, and to a lesser extent, buying, backpacking and paddling gear. There are also short sections on climbing and ski-touring gear. The authors have a distinct bias towards repairing rather than replacing gear, which leads them to give less info about what to buy than "Rock and Ice Gear" by Clyde Soles.The book is full of clear and useful drawings and photos. The lists of essential tool kits for different trips are invaluable.The pun-filled prose and the Getchells' earthy-crunchy, smarmy preaching quickly grow tiresome if you spend a good deal of time with the book, however.