Summer Edition

Equipment, Safety, and Survival Skills for summer activities. Your guide to safely enjoying the summer outdoors.

Whether you are planning a day-hike or a long canoeing expedition, this book will teach you what you need to know to safely enjoy your time outdoors. Through initial planning and preparation, to navigating in the wilderness, handling outdoor tools, or dealing with emergencies, herein lies a wealth of practical knowledge and survival skills for both the novice and the seasoned traveller. Written in a clear, informative style and accompanied by some wonderful illustrations, you will find planning an outdoors trip all the easier for having read it.

Winter Edition

Outdoor trips in winter require careful planning and preparation. Down to -15°C, you can make the odd error. You may even be allowed one or two mistakes between -15°C and -30°C. If it is colder than -30°C, you simply cannot afford to go wrong. A winter excursion to the mountains can be spectacular and invigorating. Crisp, fresh air, white, clear expanses, and the snow crunching under your boots or swishing under your skis. But how do you prepare? What do you do if the worst happens? With this book, you will find the answers to those questions and more. Outdoors the Scandinavian Way is without a doubt one of the best guides for preparing for winter trips available today.

Using a Knife

The knife is without a doubt the most important tool you will use in the great outdoors. With a good knife, you will be able to perform almost every task required on a wilderness trip.

Lars Fält will guide you through techniques on how to use a knife safely, and perhaps as importantly, how to teach children to use a knife safely. Lars offers many tips throughout the book including, amongst others, how to cut down a small tree, the correct way to split wood for the fire, how to light a fire using a knife and fire steel, and a quick lesson on how to fillet a fish.

A well-cared for knife is going to last a lifetime, and there is a useful chapter showing us how to look after our knife. There are detailed explanations of cleaning and sharpening a knife, and caring for the handle and sheath.

The knife has been an essential tool in human history, and Lars has written a little about the history, including a fascinating glimpse of some of the different types used by indigenous peoples of the north.

Using an Axe

The axe is a vitally important tool for every outdoorsman and woman. Drawing on his own extensive knowledge and experience, Lars Fält will guide you through what you can use an axe for, how to safely use one, and how to care for it. You will learn, amongst other things, how to correctly sharpen an axe, how to replace an axe handle, the right way to chop and split wood, as well as some very clever, practical lessons such as how to make a canoe paddle.

From Stone Age to Space Age, the axe has been ever present, and there is a short section in the book on the history of this remarkable tool, and an interesting insight into how a hand-forged axe is made today. For anybody using an axe when they are in the great outdoors, this handbook is a must for your library shelf!