Desert Sense - Grubbs, Bruce
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Like any desert aficionado, Bruce Grubbs is obsessed with water: how much to bring, how to carry it, how to conserve it, and how to find it in the backcountry. But desert exploration involves much more. Grubbs provides the knowledge and skills you need to move through this landscape with confidence. In addition to techniques for hiking and mountain biking special to desert conditions, Grubbs tells how to prepare your vehicle for remote desert roads and how to avoid getting stuck in sand or busting a tire. He discusses navigating in the desert, "dry camping" skills, and techniques for minimum…mehr

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Like any desert aficionado, Bruce Grubbs is obsessed with water: how much to bring, how to carry it, how to conserve it, and how to find it in the backcountry. But desert exploration involves much more. Grubbs provides the knowledge and skills you need to move through this landscape with confidence. In addition to techniques for hiking and mountain biking special to desert conditions, Grubbs tells how to prepare your vehicle for remote desert roads and how to avoid getting stuck in sand or busting a tire. He discusses navigating in the desert, "dry camping" skills, and techniques for minimum impact on this starkly beautiful but fragile environment. There are tips for dealing with desert heat--and cold--and other challenges (sharp, spiny plants and venomous snakes are easy to avoid with a little preparation and know-how). But just in case, Grubbs troubleshoots the worst-case scenarios. Throughout, he gives an understanding of desert climate and seasons, and the unique plants and creatures at home in it.
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BRUCE GRUBBS has been hiking, backpacking, and exploring the American Southwest for 35 years. He is a mountain biker, kayaker, cross-country skier, and has had a climbing career as well. He has experience doing desert mountaineering expeditions and still prefers long-distance, cross-country backpacking in the Grand Canyon and other remote desert areas. He co-wrote Hiking Arizona for Falcon in 1986 and since then is the author of thirteen other titles for Falcon. Grubbs has been published in Backpacker Magazine, in Know How, and Weekend Wilderness columns. He was the outdoor editor for "Flagstaff Live," a local arts and entertainment weekly for two years and is currently a contributing editor for The Sojourner, the online magazine of the Adventure Radio Society. He had a regular column in Outdoor Arizona, a now defunct regional magazine in the late 1960s and was the Southwest editor of Off Belay during the early 1970s.