I have that one too. I heartily recommend it. It has a really good explanation of how much food (or extra padding <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ) you need in cold weather.

I also liked it that they pointed out that "low impact" camping is really "displaced impact". Not that I think we should be allowed to go chop down trees in National Parks, but it's good to be reminded that a compact white gas stove isn't necessarily any friendlier to the environment than a wood bonfire.

aardwolfe.

I also appreciated the Conovers distinction between locally low impact and global impact. It is amazing how easy it is to disregard human impact on the environment when we are not actively doing all the impact. If you think of an oiled cotton verses a goretex coat. What are the impacts from picking the cotton or drilling for the oil through final disposal. It is nearly impossible to list each manufacturing step and its impact....I'm betting the list is shorter for the oiled cotton though.

Really just a good read also....I really like the FatBack 'Lassy Touton Cookies. (Bacon Molassas Spice cookies....excellent), I can almost feel my arteries clogging but at least they warm the body and soul.

What is your favorite all around survival book? <img src="images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

That's the one.
-Biscuits

Hands down: Collins Gem "SAS survival guide"

Small, light, portable and comprehensive
Unless of course you have a photographic memory then you don't need any book with you haha.

Mike

SAS GEM edition by Lofty Wiseman. $10 and you have a book that fits in your pocket and coveres just about everything reasonably well.

Foxfire, foxfire 2 throught 11 i think. Combination of how to do things like butcher a hog, build a log cabin, traditional hillbillie medicine that probably did more harm than good, and an anthropology of a dead culture

oh. the Foxfire books are editied by Eliot Wigginton. And the dialect is quoted with greater effectiveness than any highly esteemed novel (Faulkner's _As I Lay Dying_, etc.) That I have ever read.

I think it's important to note, though, that this book is really only useful for North Woods (and more northerly) winter environments, where it is consistently cold enough to keep the snow from melting all over the place.

Even the authors admit that when the going gets wet up there, there isn't much you can do about it except suffer, sealskin boots or not.

Great book, though. I'm ditching my Lowe Alpine Contour IV pack and North Face synthetic sleeping bag for a Duluth Pack, and some nice Filson wool.

It seems to me that Angier's books are becoming very rare indeed. I was introduced to Angier via the green-nubby covered reprint that I found on the sale racks at BN, but the other books of his that I have been able to acquire have been gleaned from dusty old used book stores.