Lightness and Comfort go hand in hand

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(BOOM) The Boomer's Guide To Lightweight Backpacking, SB Carol Corbridge
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Author: Carol Corbridge Artwork by Jayna Harrison This book will bring you up to speed on all the new products and load-lightening techniques needed to make your next trail experience a great one.  With detailed recommendations and a lively visual format, this book will help you re-create your wilderness system one piece at a time making it lighter, safer, and more comfortable.     There's always some new gizmo or gadget on the market; and with so much gear out there, it's easy to get confused.  Corbridge takes away the guesswork with gear tables in each chapter that tell you where to buy the items discussed; the tables list the specific model, manufacturer, price, weight, and website.  Carol's done all the research for you over several years of trials and many miles of trails.      For Corbridge light doesn't mean skimping on the fun.  For a week-long journey, she carries about 30 pounds, which includes 1.8 L water, food, camera, fishing gear, swim fins...  you get the idea.  Once you've cut out the unnecessary weight, you can add back the toys.     Extend your years on the trail.  Enjoy every step, as you walk into lightness.  With The Boomer's Guide to Lightweight Backpacking you'll carry less, have more fun, and go out more often.  See you on the trail! 6 X 9 Inches, 102 Pages, Full Color, Illustrations & Photos Published October 2008   About the Author: Carol started her backpacking career as a teenager, exploring Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco.  Like many people she backpacked maybe once a summer throughout her early adult life and then became busy with other things and eventually didn't go at all.     In her forties, while managing her landscape construction business, Carol rediscovered the joys of the day-hike: a shorter, easier form of wilderness experience.  One thing lead to another and after a few years of weekend day-hikes, backpacking became possible again.     Carol found backpacking the perfect retreat from cell phones and freeways.  Being older and wanting to extend her years on the trail, as well as improving the quality of those years, she proceeded to find the lightest, most comfortable gear available.     Carol now spends more than 60 nights in the wilderness under the stars each season. REVIEWS: "Your Boomer's Guide is fantastic." __Pepper Parker, Vintage Books, Vancouver, WA     "Here's a guide for midlife that doesn't require soul-searching or dieting, although weight loss is involved. In The Boomer's Guide to Lightweight Backpacking, hiker/author Carol Corbridge shares her many years of wilderness experience with particular emphasis on load lightening techniques that can help mature hikers extend their years on the trail. A straight-talking text with cartoons by Jayna Harrison and beautiful wilderness photographs, Lightweight Backpacking discusses the best equipment and clothing to make your outdoor experience safe, environmentally responsible and, most of all, fun."__MJ Dashpit, Ashland Daily Tidings, December 27, 2008     "Don't let the whimsical title of Carol Corbridge's The Boomer's Guide to Lightweight Backpacking: New Gear for Old People fool you.  This latest handbook for being prepared on the trail will bring you up to speed on all the new products and load-lightening techniques you'll need to make your next backpacking experience a great one. " __ MotorHome Magazine, February 2009 Book Reviews      "The author presents a collection of hints, methods, and equipment that provides the most efficiency, effectiveness, and safety in outdoor living from years of personal experience and endless trials of gear and techniques. What you have as a result is a book that is directed to the best gear and best techniques for backpacking, or any outdoor living, providing the most comfort and ease of use with the least amount of distraction from enjoying the outdoors you are traveling through. The design of the book is excellent in that it allows one to either cut to the executive summary or enjoy the full story of how to choose, use, and enjoy your gear. The color photographs and B&W line drawings are both well done, enjoyable, and provide a excellent addition to the book. From a practical standpoint this is a fine book. But there is more. The author's writing style is fun and fun to read. Once you start reading you cannot put the darn book down. I ended up reading the whole book in a single sitting. It really was that good because the author lets you into her world. And you simply feel that you need to enjoy her personality more than you need to learn about gear and techniques. If you overnight in the outdoors in any manner, this book is a truly enjoyable must have."  __Bruce E. Harang, Federation of Fly Fishers