Must-know trail skills: finding your way, purifying water, cooking on the trail, where and how to set up camp. Solo backpacking, all-female groups, and hiking with children, seniors, and pets plus ideas for going light and enhancing your trail photography. How to handle dangerous situations--encounters with bears, inclement weather, and medical emergencies.

Updated edition of the best-selling guide to the Appalachian Trail. Maps and mileages provided for every section of the trail. Fascinating information on trail history and geology.

Detailed descriptions of 37 trails. Information on terrain, difficulty, precautions, contacts. Directions to each trail and descriptions of features along the trek.

Sisters Lucy and Susan Letcher begin their barefoot thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. A story filled with humor and determination.

This second half of the Barefoot Sisters' account has become an AT classic.

Imagine a 7-year-old boy asking his father if they can hike the entire Appalachian Trail, and then imagine that the father says yes.

32 day hikes and overnight trips in Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

A guide to 46 day hikes and overnight trips in Virginia and West Virginia.

41 day hikes and overnight trips in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

A guide to 27 great day hikes and overnight backpacking trips on the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.