Colin Fletcher
Wow. If you ever wanted to know anything about hiking, backpacking, or walking in general read some of his stuff. I recently purchased "The complete Walker III". It's great. It explains it all from pitching camp to using the facilities. Ha, I just called the great outdoors facilities. Don't think you can conquer this task of reading material quickly, because it is about 600 pgs. the greatest thing is he actually makes it entertaining. Although, I'm quite intrigued because I love hiking. What I mean is that he doesn't just write down instructions, but incorporates his own stories into it. its not your everyday how to book. From reading his material I dub him a pretty neat guy.