Trail Safe: How to Avoid Danger in the Backcountry
Bane, a critically acclaimed sports journalist, seminar speaker, and extreme sports enthusiast, provides readers with safety tips that go beyond waterproof matches, flashlights, and duct tape in this nearly psychological preparation guide for any outdoor adventure. Bane offers practical advice for approaching your own defense strategy and backs up those recommendations with concrete examples and a liberal sprinkling of personal anecdotes that will keep you entertained. You'll find that these same tools you master for personal safety can also provide you with a framework to break out of the comfort zones of everyday life and significantly enhance your exploration of the natural world. --GORP.comIndispensable! Bane's Trail Safe is a must-read for anyone who spends time in the wilderness... --Gavin De Becker, Author, The Gift of FearMichael Bane uses the great outdoors and the sports related to it as a canvas on which he deftly illustrates how to be Trail Safe. Even better, his hard-earned and well thought out advice applies to everyone, no matter where they may be. Trail Safe could just as accurately be titled Life Safe. --Walt Rauch, Author, Real World Survival: What Has Worked For Me