For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities.
This guide answers every angler's questions about stocking schedules, fish abundance, precise location coordinates, elevation, surface area, and maximum depth for more than 1,000 lakes and streams in the magnificent Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains on the Montana-Wyoming border.
San Francisco is one of America's most walkable cities, and this book describes 18 walks that can be taken by the casual visitor, including 9 in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the world's largest urban national park.
Following the success of his acclaimed books Shotguns and Shooting and More Shotguns and Shooting, Michael McIntosh continues his celebration of the shotgun in Shotguns and Shooting 3.
At its core, A Bird in the Hand is indeed about trophies, though not those ranked by size or numbers or scores, but, rather, the lasting trophies of the mind and heart.
Fully revised and updated, Hiking Grand Canyon National Park provides first-hand descriptions and detailed maps for all of the parks developed trails as well as tips on safety, hiking with children, access, and services.
Why We Climb is a celebration, in word and image, of those aspects of the climbing life that are most universal, meaningful, and long lasting the strong connection to partners and nature; the physical and mental mastery required (and how to achieve it); the rewards of exploring oneself and the world through climbing.
If you love a challenge and treasure a sport that requires commitment; if you enjoy being in the woods; and if you like getting as close to your quarry as possible, then bowhunting is for you.
Best Climbs Los Angeles narrows down the thousands of climbing routes across the 4,500 square miles of Los Angeles County to the absolute best 300 routes.
Filled with stories about sports figures like Muhammad Ali, Roberto Clemente, Tony Elliot, Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams, this new edition describes the changing face of diversity in sport (the growing numbers of Latino and female college and professional athletes).
In Fly Fishing the Yucatan, Rod Hamilton offers nitty gritty specifics for the angler, including details such as exactly what rods, lines, reels and flies are must-haves, a battle plan for walking a flat and a course in presenting to and successfully plucking out fish in the most complex situations.
From the top of the Adirondack Northway to the precipitous drop that creates Niagara Falls, Hiking Waterfalls in New York State provides all of the information readers need to find their way to waterfalls hidden in the crevices of the Catskill Mountains, high on the faces of the High Peaks, flowing through magnificent gorges into the Finger Lakes, or deep in the backcountry of the Southern Tier.
With hundreds of miles of beautiful beaches and barrier islands, the coastline of North and South Carolina is one of the most treasured shorelines in the country.
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessiers own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn.
Three-day eventing, known as the ';complete competition,' requires the same horse-and-rider team to ride a dressage test, a demanding cross-country obstacle course, and a show-jumping round.
The day of the Ice Bowl game was so cold, the referees whistles wouldnt work; so cold, the reporters coffee froze in the press booth; so cold, fans built small fires in the concrete and metal stands; so cold, TV cables froze and photographers didnt dare touch the metal of their equipment; so cold, the game was as much about survival as it was about skill and strategy.
BASIC ILLUSTRATED GUIDESA new series of full-color how-to guides, the BASIC ILLUSTRATED guides are written by experts and aimed for beginners, but even veterans will use these books as basic reference tools.
For nearly 50 years, Climbing Magazine's goal has been to inspire and entertain with compelling coverage of climbing in all its forms, from bouldering to the big walls, trad rock to sport climbing, ice climbing to mountaineering.
On May 24, 1869, John Wesley Powell and nine crewmen in four wooden rowboats set off down the Green River to map the final blank spot on the American map.
The Colorado Plateau is Americas western treasure, home to the countrys highest concentration of national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and state parks, and a near-endless bounty of wild, stunning landscape.
In the second volume of the Secrets of the Forest series, Mark Warren addresses a wide range of what an outdoorsperson needs to know about fire such as:how to create it from scratch using three different methods (hand drill, bow drill, and fire-saw).
Best Hikes Near Phoenix details 40 of the best hikes within an hours drive of the greater Phoenix area, including outings near Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale, Chandler, and Apache Junction.
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like ';a festive prison yard' during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence.
