商品簡介
Down and Dirty Know-How and Fun for Families Starting Out on the Trail
It's time to put some mud on those boots and step outside for a hike—be it trekking through your own back yard, strolling along a city park path, or climbing more rugged landscapes in a national park. In partnership with the American Hiking Society, Families on Foot offers practical information, inspiring tactics, and engaging activities to get families hiking in nature. Author Jennifer Pharr Davis, the former record holder of the fastest thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, together with her husband Brew Davis, marries old-fashioned know-how on safety, preparation, and trail conservation with modern day activities and technology, inspirational and interactive games, and down-and-dirty fun on the trail. Information includes smart tactics for families with kids of a variety ages on the trail—from tackling diaper blowouts in the backcountry to getting teenagers engaged in nature with smartphone apps and GPS—and is inclusive of special needs children and senior adults.
作者簡介
Jennifer Pharr Davis is the founder of Blue Ridge Hiking Company, as well as a long distance hiker, author, speaker, and ambassador for the American Hiking Society. She has hiked over 12,000 miles on six different continents, including thru-hikes on the PCT, the Appalachian Trail, the Colorado Trail, the Long Trail, and more. In 2011, she set the unofficial record for the fastest thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail with a time of 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes—and held this until July 2015. Her adventures have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Outside magazine, to name a few. Jennifer has been named Blue Ridge Outdoors Person of the Year and a National Geographic Adventurer of the year. Her Appalachian Trail record was voted Ultrarunning Magazine’s Female Performance of 2011.
Brew Davis guides for Blue Ridge Hiking Company. He’s an accomplished long distance hiker and ultrarunner, having hiked in all fifty states and completed the 500-mile Colorado Trail.
