How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner’s Guide to Hiking and Backpacking

Part critique of modern hiking culture and part how-to guide, this book is for anyone who wants to hit the trail without breaking the bank. Diana Helmuth offers real advice, opinionated but accessible and based on in-the-field experiences. Through a blend of self-deprecating humor and good-natured heckling of both seasoned backpackers and urbanites who romanticize being outdoorsy, provides a helpful dose of the actual advice a novice needs to get started.