‘A lovely book for nature lovers and for readers interested in wilderness exploration and tracking, filled with both reflection and timeless information.’-Library Journal STARRED Review
No matter your age or abilities, Linda Jo Hunter’s years of experience as a wilderness guide & teacher will help you enjoy the outdoors without fear, expand tracking and trailing skills, and rekindle the Wild in you!
In this book, you’ll learn how to:
~ Advance your tracking journey
~ Keep yourself safe and comfortable
~ Avoid ending up in a survival situation
~ Practice self-care away from home
~ Respond effectively to being ‘lost’
~ Work in a group while thinking for yourself
~ Deal with strangers on the trail
~ Respect and survive your wildlife encounters
~ And most of all, how to have priceless adventures!
Author Linda Jo Hunter has often been entrusted with safekeeping groups looking for wilderness adventure. She’s served as an Alaska grizzly bear viewing guide, and as a trained search and rescue volunteer, private yacht captain, and public tour boat operator. She is the author of her Alaska memoir, Lonesome for Bears: A Woman’s Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness (with photographer Amy Shapira), and serves as a popular guest speaker and teacher of animal tracking and trailing skills. She co-founded the International Society of Professional Trackers and produced its newsletter, all making her a terrific resource for learning how to be an outdoorsy person at any age or ability.
Thirty years of animal tracking and trailing experience have given her ample stories and advice to share for anyone who wants to enjoy the natural world without worry or distress. Storytelling is her favorite way to teach so she doesn’t hold back, even when she’s the punchline. She is also an accomplished artist. Her illustrations fill this book of spilled secrets with more samples of her wisdom, wit, and earned skills.
You may wind up reading Lonesome for Wilderness well into the night, then propel yourself out the door the next day with new confidence, whether you’re interested in solo hiking, safe wildlife encounters, trailing animals in the snow or in the desert, new camping activities, a fun way to enjoy more ebike adventures, or getting over your fear of bears and cougars.
With Linda’s guidance and at your own pace, you can develop or improve your outdoor animal tracking and trailing skills, whether in your own back yard-or out in the forests, mountains, or deserts, where Nature presents all her endless mysteries for you to solve.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Your Wild Streak ~ 12
2. Roughing it ~ 14
3. Going Alone ~ 19
Making Your Own Tracks ~ 21
4. Enhancing Your Wild Streak ~ 26
5. Building Skills ~ 35
The Punctuation in an Animal Trail ~ 39
Why Trailing? ~ 42
6. Scatology ~ 45
7. Trailing Animals-and Humans ~ 50
Subtle Things to Look For When Trailing ~ 56
And the Big Things to Look For, Always ~ 57
8. Changing Habitats ~ 61
Puzzles ~ 63
9. Lions and Bears ~ 68
Bears ~ 69
So, What Should You Do When You See a Bear? ~ 77
Mountain Lions ~ 81
Coyotes and Other Animals ~ 84
10. Tracking by Bicycle ~ 88
11. Kayaking and Tracking in Snow ~ 94
Swamp Boating ~ 95
Snow Tracking ~ 96
12. Storytelling ~ 100
Mystery Divots ~ 101
An Uneasy Feeling ~ 103
Addictive Fun ~ 106
13. Dog Friends ~ 11
The Big Picture of Hiking with a Dog ~ 114
14. Lost ~ 116
Route Finding Skills ~ 118
15. Sh*t Hits the Fan ~ 123
Survival vs. Prevention ~126
Dirty, But Still Alive ~ 127
Your Job-or Your Life? ~ 129
16. That Cup of Tea ~ 131
Just Stop ~ 133
Other Essentials ~ 134
One Cold Night ~ 136
17. The Inner Voices ~ 140
18. When to Lie ~ 146
19. Camping ~ 156
Night Hike ~ 157
Trade-offs ~ 160
Site considerations ~ 163
20. Without a bathroom ~ 166
21. What’s in That Pack? ~ 172
Stay Organized ~ 176
Rescue Whom? ~ 177
22. The Art of Observing ~ 180
Look for the Cracks ~ 183
Observing with All Your Senses ~184
Grandmothers Know ~ 186
23. Guiding ~ 188
Last in Line, First in Importance ~ 189
Managing Expectations ~ 189
Monitoring Guests ~ 191
You First ~ 194
It’s Not What You Know ~ 194
Keep Them Looking ~ 196
Thrive in Your Outdoor Jobs ~ 197
24. Reaching Out to Young People ~ 201
25. Returning to Earth ~ 207
26. Magic ~ 213
The Book of Tracking Bulls**t ~ 215
True ‘Magic’ ~ 218
NATURE STUDY RESOURCES ~ 220
Visual Animal Trackers ~ 220
Tracking Humans ~ 224
Bears ~ 225
Mountain Lions (aka Cougars or Pumas) ~ 227
Other Books That Have Influenced Me ~ 228
Online Resources & Apps ~ 229
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Circa l’autore
Linda Jo Hunter is renowned in the animal tracking community for her unique tracking and trailing methods, her teaching skills, and as the author of Lonesome for Bears: A Woman’s Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness. She co-founded the International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT), and has studied with human tracking schools, an international tracking certification group, and biologists in both Alaska and Yellowstone National Park. She has worked as a brown-bear viewing guide in Alaska, and as a private yacht captain on the West Coast, one of the first women to obtain a 100-ton ocean Master’s License. Thirty years of first-hand observation, her experience in search and rescue, and many solo adventures have enhanced her knowledge of natural history and her skills in the wild. Find her at www.Linda Jo Hunter.com
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