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WTC logo. The Wilderness Travel Course (also known as WTC) is a Sierra Club program that teaches basic mountaineering skills to students.. The class is a 10-week introduction to all-around outdoor proficiency, gives participants a taste of backpacking, equipment, snow travel, field navigation, wilderness ethics, basic rock climbing, mountaineering medicine, winter camping, general safety and ...
Wilderness Hex Sheets, published in 1982 as a reprint of 1978's Hex Sheets, is a pad of 50 sheets marked with a hex grid. Gamemasters can use this to design campaigns for wilderness settings, create large geographical areas or plan overland trips from one urban area to another.
The first issue of Backpacker appeared in the spring of 1973. The first editor's note written by William Kemsley, the founding editor, explains that it took three years to put together the first issue of Backpacker, and that the founding editors worried that America in the early 1970s did not contain a backpacking community large enough to support a magazine.
The official NOLS logo [1]. NOLS is a non-profit outdoor education school based in the United States dedicated to teaching environmental ethics, technical outdoor skills, wilderness medicine, risk management and judgment, and leadership on extended wilderness expeditions and in traditional classrooms.
8th edition cover. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills [1] is often considered the standard textbook for mountaineering and climbing in North America.The book was first published in 1960 by The Mountaineers of Seattle, Washington.
Gary and Joanie McGuffin are Canadian explorers, conservation photographers, writers, motivational speakers, documentarians and conservationists. Their most documented adventures have been about canoeing on waterways throughout North America, [1] bicycling from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans, [2] backpacking the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, circumnavigating Lake ...
The club first ventured into education by forming a mountaineering school in 1939. Today, the club offers classes in a variety of subjects, including wilderness trekking, nature photography, mountaineering, climbing, wilderness first aid, fly fishing, and leadership. Classes are taught by volunteers and often involve lectures and field days.
Murray promoted New York's north woods as health-giving and spirit-enhancing, claiming that the rustic nobility typical of Adirondack woodsmen came from their intimacy with wilderness. A subsequent printing, subtitled Tourist's Edition , included maps of the region and train schedules from various Eastern cities to the Adirondacks.