The Complete Walker IV
by Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins

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Book Review: 10 Stars for novice or expert
Summary: 5 Stars

The author isn't someone who speaks of walking as a week end hobby but is a man who had walking as a lifestyle and speaks of walking as an activity that can solve many a problem. He writes of the importance of not allowing the walking to run you but you run the walking. That being prepared makes the journey successful and with good planning (Hope for the best plan for the worst) one become able to enjoy the scenery and becomes more intuitive to the small details like the small violet plant peaking out from behind the fern near the fallen decaying tree 50 feet to the left off the path......

Or sitting on a hillside, mountain peak and simply doing nothing but realizing how wonderful life is and how beautiful the surroundings are. He writes of the improvement in equipment and most of all he writes of the simplicity of walking, it is an activity one can begin doing in their own communities and that it need not mean expensive equipment, but simply the time and desire to walk...walk...walk. It is one of the best, if not the best book on the subject and a book the serious walker, hiker, backpacker should own in their reference library.

It is also the one book we find consistently on the bookshelves of all our walking, running, hiking, backpacking friends. And not an expensive book either.........The August issue of Backpacker has a wonderful interview piece on him.

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