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The Winter Wilderness Companion: Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered Season [Paperback]

Garrett Conover (Author), Alexandra Conover (Author)
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"...provides readers with everything they need to know to live and travel safely and comfortably in winter." -- Sierra Atlantic

"Anybody interested in winter travel, extended or weekend, get this book." -- New York Outdoors

"This is in all respects a well-written, entertaining, and enthralling work." -- Bushwhacker

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The Winter Wilderness Companion is a unique and inspirational guide to outdoor skills from authors named to Outside magazine’s exclusive list of 12 “Twentieth Century Heroes for a New Millennium.” This revised edition unlocks the winter wilderness in all its invigorating beauty. It includes step-by-step instructions for making and using snowshoes, toboggans, tents, and clothing.
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The best examples of the snowshoe maker's art may well be seen among the Attikamek people and the Eastern Cree. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Winter living...in the great outdoors, Dec 29 2002
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Greg J. Storey "gstorey" (Whitehorse, Yukon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Winter Wilderness Companion: Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered Season (Paperback)
After living and camping for 10 years North of the treeline I have recently moved to the forest country of Canada's NWT. I have been on a steep learning curve made much shorter by this wonderful book. I have retrofitted a couple of kids toboggans and my wife and I have been out nearly every day practicing the techniques and equipment found in the book. All I can say is good, solid advice from people who know what they are talking about. My favourite writer since Rustrum!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great view of modern DIY traditionalism, Jan 19 2002
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Jeff Potter "outyourbackdoor" (Williamston, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Winter Wilderness Companion: Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered Season (Paperback)
One reviewer says he didn't like this book's subhead. To me, it's the part of the title that really describes the book. The subhead tells you it's not a typical winter book, but a unique one that shows how wilderness travel is really done up in the northwoods...using methods that have been passed down thru generations. However, their materials adapt to the times whenever that seems best. Thus they're happy to use roll-up plastic sleds, in a "traditional" way. Note that the subhead doesn't say "re-enactment" or "historic" travel. Traditional travel in their sense means how local northwoods people camp today. That seems to be their drift, anyway. As a result, I appreciate the coverage of both snowmobiles and snowshoes. They go together. Now, canvas tents might not be right for everyone, but I appreciate them for long, cold, group outings. I think that for such use, they're best. Trust these folks and their local, ethnic sources. I liked the realistic, inclusive style of this book. This is not pricey vacation resort travel. This is do-it-yourself make-do homebrew travel. I notice that there wasn't much emphasis on the fancy new snowshoes, but instead on the wide variety of traditional models that are still available if you know where to look (not in the yuppy shops that you find far from the boonies). In deep offtrail open area snow, if you plan to travel, you need some nice long, narrow Alaskans. I find the modern shoes to be suitable for crust, gullies, trails...conditions I don't shoe in. Or hardly anyone I know. The recent takeover by hightech shoes is silly. I also appreciate seeing the lady author with her string of gunshot grouse...not a common image in today's backpacking books. But a common one in traditional northwoods living. This is a one of a kind book. No other contemporary book is as practical or personable. This book has character...ever rarer in publishing.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title, Jan 15 2002
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Paul B (Amherst, Ma USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Winter Wilderness Companion: Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered Season (Paperback)
While the title The Winter Wilderness Companion is accurate, the sub heading of Traditional and Native American Skills for the Undiscovered Season is the part I found misleading(after I purchased the book of course).
I had expected the book to be more along the line of The Indian Tipi or American Indian Archery written by Reginald and Gladys Laubin(both five star books in my view). Not even close. Info on EPIRBS and contact info for LL Bean and Steger Mukluks wasn't what I wanted in a book with this title.
Although there is useful winter camping information it falls into the elementary catagory and group travel sounds like the old British Himalayan expedition style. If you read any Bonnington pulp you'll know what I mean.
Anyway this is just one New England winter travelers opinion.Its your plastic, but I'd spend my $14 elsewhere.
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