Outdoor Leadership

Rock climbing is an exhilarating and spectacular sport that is attracting more people than ever before. This book is written for those climbers starting out on their instructing career. It contains the ideas and information that will smooth their path into the rewarding world of instructing and guiding.

Increase your strength, power, skill, and focus to maximize your climbing performance. Drawing on the latest climbing research, this third edition of the international best-selling Training for Climbing presents a comprehensive, evidence-based program for improving climbing performance.

Explains how to get started and advance your skills at the local climbing gym. Key exercises reinforce fundamental skills, illustrated in sequential photos.

The 2015 edition of Neil Monteith's climbing guidebook to the Grampians adds several of the area's most popular multi-pitch trad crags including Grey Green Walls, Central Buttress, Asses Ears and the ever popular single pitch beginner trad nirvana of Summerday Valley. All the usual sport crags have been updated with lots of new routes and updated topos. There is even a whole new winter friendly sport crag. With an additional 300 routes, this guide expands the original 2013 guide into one that provides extensive coverage of the best climbing at Australia's world class Grampians. In total, the book covers 61 crags and details over 1200 routes (both sport and trad).

This comprehensive reference on kayaking and canoeing describes all the disciplines of this exciting sport from flatwater, open water, and the sea for all levels of paddler, from beginner to advanced levels.

A generously photographed and illustrated handbook for beginners and seasoned paddlers, Kayaking Made Easy is brimming with advice, humor, and personal anecdotes about every aspect of flatwater and sea kayaking.

Two men as different as night and day. One kayak. And 10,000 miles of the most beautiful but treacherous coastline in the world. You'd have to be crazy to think you could kayak around an entire continent, right? But Eric Stiller admits: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

This book shows how to pick and outfit a boat, master specialized techniques, and plan a wilderness trip that is safe, fun, and memorable for both adults and children.

This guide takes readers well beyond the basic skills of map and compass, moving readers to a level of complete understanding of navigation in the outdoors--regardless of terrain or time of day, whether traveling over rock or ice, through desert or jungle, on a river or at sea.

Giving you almost all the information necessary to make objective buying decisions, this book helps save you money and make you a better backcountry traveller. It ranges from repairing zippers to selecting 'green' adhesives, and also offers information on care and repair.

Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic Hikes series, this time exploring 50 of Australia and New Zealand's most rewarding treks and trails. From the Routeburn Track in New Zealand's South Island to the Cape to Cape walk in Western Australia's Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, we cover a huge variety of themes and experiences across routes that range from one-day walks to multi-day treks.

A comprehensive, full colour guide to Australia's Great Ocean Road along the southwest coastline of Victoria, and the surrounding region. Details for each the coastline - a beach goers' and surfers' guide to 65 beaches, the Great Ocean Walk plus 126 other walks; the rainforest; flora and fauna and sealife; and background contexts including Aboriginal and European heritage, environmental issues, geology and ecosystems.