Sixty-eight uses for a hiking stick (Paperback)

If you, or someone you know, takes walks along the road or hikes in the woods, then you will enjoy this book. The name says it all! This fun little book has 68 ideas and illustrations for things you can do with your hiking stick. It is full of simple pencil drawings to help you imagine the circumstances. Whether you walk often or just occasionally, you should have a hiking stick. You will find many uses for it and you will grow to depend on and trust it. Sometimes all it takes is a little imagination to accomplish things. Having the right tool also helps. Moses used his hiking stick to part the red sea, what will you use your hiking stick for? There are probably hundreds of uses for a hiking stick. Why don't you see how many ideas you can add to these 68? I have been a scout leader for 23 years now and it is fun to teach the scouts "outdoors stuff". I do love sitting around the campfire, teaching them how to purify water or how to start a fire without matches but then there is hiking. Just getting out of the chair and taking a walk. It could be in the woods or along a road. Maybe you are at camp or just in your back yard. Go see mother nature up close. Maybe you'll see a bear on the Appalachian trail or see who can find different kinds of birds in your back yard. You should wear the proper footwear and always wear a hat, but don't forget your hiking stick. Your hiking stick can be used for all sorts of things like keeping a barking dog away when you are hiking down the road, as balance for help crossing a stream or just something to lean against when you are tired. This fun little book is here to give you ideas. It does not necessarily tell you how to do all of the things, that is for you to have fun figuring out. It does not teach you how to do lashings or how to make a fancy hiking stick, there are plenty of other books on those subjects. I am here just to tell you a bunch of ideas of how to use it. When you are sitting around doing nothing why don't you make your own hiking stick? It could be an old ski pole that you bought at a garage sale or just a stick you found in the yard. Fancy it up a little by tying para cord around it or whittling a wolfs head on top. You could tie a feather to the top and make notches in it up from the bottom an inch apart so you can see how deep the snow or stream is. I have seen hiking sticks with a compass on top or a whistle dangling from a cord. Do not be afraid to make it your own. This book is full of a bunch of ideas for using your hiking stick. It sure does come in handy now and then when you are walking along, and you will learn to miss it if you accidentally leave it at home. Hopefully you are inspired a little by the ideas in this book. Get outdoors and have some fun but please be safe. Some of the ideas in this book could be dangerous so please use caution.See ya on the trail, Dave