Backpacker Magazine

New parents or parents with young children who want to safely enjoy hiking and backpacking with their kids.

A how-to book for climbers with information on scrambling skills, gear, alpine hazards, and acclimation, published under the imprimatur of "Backpacker" magazine.

Backpacker magazine—branded and fueled by Falcon-Guides, this book provides essential mind gear from the two most respected and reliable publishers of outdoor-related information. Perfect for pack or pocket, it breaks down its subject into the essential topics, providing practical and portable information useful in the field. Full-color photos, charts, and illustrations are organized with text by an expert in a brief and accessible manner, introducing readers to basic and intermediate skills needed to safely and successfully get by in the outdoors. “Backpacker Magazine's Backpacking Basics” informs readers about choosing where to go; selecting the appropriate gear; properly packing their equipment; finding their way in the wilderness; and planning easy and tasty meals.

Backpacker Magazine's Campsite Cooking informs readers about food that keeps you going, what to bring for your outdoor kitchen, food preparation and storage, cooking tips for different weather, keeping food fresh, planning, and packing meals, recipes for great breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.

“Backpacker's Trailside First Aid” assembles for readers an outdoor first-aid kit of essential items; soothe bites and stings; deal with hot and cold injuries; wrap sprains, fractures, and dislocated joints; handle backcountry emergencies until professional help arrives.

A new title in FalconGuides' partnership with Backpacker magazine, this book explores the fundamentals of diet and exercise that are necessary to get in shape to tackle a variety of different hiking trails. Including information about fitness routines and nutrition, this book is full of how-to information and fifty color photographs.

“Backpacker's Using a GPS: Digital Trip Planning, Recording, and Sharing” is a complete guide to the digital mapping revolution including how to do it and how to join it. Plan your trip, record it with GPS, edit and enhance your maps (photos and videos), and share with the world. Include out-in-the-field instructions for using a GPS; how GPS works; basic field techniques; computer-based mapping with GPS; conventional navigation skills, etc.

Backpacker Magazine's Weather informs readers about how weather happens, how to predict and recognize weather patterns, identify cloud formations and know what they mean, develop weather awareness from basic meteorological concepts, and more. This handy pocket-sized guide is 96 pages, includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.

“Backpacker Magazine's Outdoor Survival” informs readers about how to build a shelter; start a fire; find or prepare drinkable water; navigate when lost; find food, and other important skill to survive and stay alive.

Beginning and intermediate hikers and backpackers throughout the United States

A short, highly illustrated, pocket-size how-to guide to the sport of winter camping, published under the imprimatur of "Backpacker" magazine. The book covers gear, safety, weather concerns, necessary skills, and more.