The Complete Walker
by Colin Fletcher
This was my hiking handbook in the 70s and 80s. In the 70s I didn’t actually have this book, and all my hiking was done with friends family. I was just a teenager and wasn’t planning my own trips. But I found this book somewhere–on the bookshelf at summer camp? At my best friend’s house?
In any case, Fletcher was not nearly so gear oriented as current writers.…