Tourist's Pocket Guide

The guide includes brief information that may be useful to tourists when organizing and conducting multi-day amateur trips.

It provides practical advice and recommendations on recruiting a group, preparing equipment, organizing meals, arranging halts and overnight accommodations, navigating the area, carrying out socially useful work and simple observations of nature, and providing first aid. The directory focuses on the most widespread and popular hiking, water, skiing and mountain trips of the first to third categories of difficulty.

The book is intended for beginning tourists, as well as general readers.

Author-compiler Yu. A. Sturmer.

Please send reviews of the book to: 101000 Moscow, st. Kirova, 13, Profizdat.

© Profizdat-1982

CONTENT

Organization of an amateur trip
Forming a group and preparing for the trip
Requirements for travel leaders and participants (6). Additional requirements (7). Distribution of responsibilities (8). General physical and special preparation for travel (10).
Development of a route and travel schedule
Exploring the travel area (12). Route development (13). Drawing up a calendar plan (14).
Registration and registration of travel documents (16). Review and approval of the route (17). Control over the preparation and conduct of the trip (18). Report writing (19). Travel credit and rank assignment (20). USSR Tourist Badge (21).

Equipment
Personal equipment
General list (23). Personal equipment for hiking (25). Features of personal equipment for mountain and water travel (28). Features of personal equipment on a ski trip (29).
Group equipment
General list (31). Features of group equipment for hiking and mountain travel (33). Features of group equipment for water travel (37) . Features of group equipment on a ski trip (42). Medical kit (45).
Preparing equipment for travel, caring for it and repairing it
Checking and modifying equipment (47). Impregnation and lubrication (48). Stowing equipment in a backpack (50). Equipment care (51). Repairs while traveling (52). Repair kit (53).

Nutrition
Catering while traveling
Power mode (55). Composition of the diet (56). Products and their calorie content (58). Water-salt regime (58). Preparing food before traveling (60).
Replenishment of food supplies along the route
Berry picking (61). Mushroom picking (62). Collection of wild plants (63). Fishing (64).
Cooking on the go
General culinary rules (66). Volumetric weight of products (67). Duration of cooking over a fire (68). Camping recipes (69).

Movement order and methods of overcoming obstacles
Walking trip
Mode and routine of the hiking day (76). Rate of movement (77). Group movement order (78). Movement line (78). Overcoming steep slopes (79). Forest thickets, rubble (80). Wetlands (80). Crossing with luggage (81). Fording (82). Swimming crossing (83).
Ski trip
Features of the mode, pace, order of movement (84). Movement line (85). Ascents, descents, braking; turns (86). Overcoming obstacles (87).
Boat trip
Features of the mode, pace, order of movement (88). Movement line (91). Oar work (91). Raft control (92). Moving against the current (93). Sail control (93). Main natural obstacles (94). Thresholds (95). Artificial obstacles (96).
Mountain trip
Features of the mode, pace, order of movement (97). Movement line (98). Overcoming grassy slopes, screes, moraines (99). Rocky areas (100). Snow slopes and glaciers (101). Crossing over rocks and snow (102). Canopy crossing (103).
Belaying and rope work
Mutual insurance (103). Self-insurance and self-arrest (105). Ropes and knots (107).

Ways to navigate while traveling
Elements of topography
Maps and diagrams (110). Scale (111). Reading the card (112).
Methods of orientation
Orientation using a compass and map (116). Orientation with a map without a compass - (119). Orientation without a map and compass (120). Orientation on local subjects (121). Orientation using tourist markings (123).
Estimating distances and times
Determining distance in steps (125). Determining distance by constructing similar triangles (125). Estimation of distance by eye and by hearing sounds (127). Time estimation (128).
Azimuth movement
Azimuth (129). Movement using intermediate landmarks (130). Movement without clear landmarks (130).

Halts and overnight stays
Organization of stops and overnight stays
Selecting a location (132). Small rests (134). Lunch stops (134). Overnight and day stays in the field (135). Overnight and day stays in populated areas and camp sites (137).
Installation and equipment of tents
Site preparation (138). Procedure for setting up tents (139). Tent equipment (140).
Bonfires and hearths
Fire pit (141). Lighting a fire (142). Procurement of fuel (142). Bonfires in wooded areas (145). Outbreaks in sparsely forested areas (147).
The simplest shelters
Accommodation without a tent (148). Accommodation without a tent in winter in a treeless area (149).

Travel safety and first aid
Dangers, injuries and illnesses caused by improper actions of tourists
Thermal burns (151). Injuries from cutting and piercing instruments (153). Firearm injuries (156). Food poisoning and gastrointestinal diseases (156). Scuffs, diaper rash, calluses (158). Bruises, sprains, dislocations, fractures, concussions (159). Acute vascular insufficiency, fainting (162).
Hazards, injuries and illnesses associated with adverse weather conditions
Frostbite, freezing, colds (163). Heatstroke (165). Sunstroke, burn, snow blindness (166). Wind chill, clogged eyes (167). Electrocution (168).
Hazards, injuries and illnesses associated with wild animals and poisonous plants
Injuries by wild animals (169). Bite of poisonous snakes and insects (170). Forest tick bite (173). Nuisance insects (175). Poisoning and burns from poisonous wild plants (175). Poisoning with poisonous mushrooms (177)
Dangers, injuries and illnesses associated with specific travel conditions in the mountains and on water
Mountain sickness (178). Rockfall injuries (178). Avalanche danger (179). Accidents on water (180).
Distress signals and transportation of victims
Distress signals (182). Transportation of victims (182).

Useful work while traveling, organizing observations
Forms of socially useful work
Help for the local population (186). All-Union campaign (186). Fulfillment of tasks of organizations (187). Completing tourist tasks (187). Local history activities (188). Conditions for the successful implementation of socially useful work (189).
Observations on the hike
Meteorological observations (189). Weather forecasting (192). Topographic observations (195). Geological observations (196). Study of relief (197). Hydrological observations (197). Botanical observations (198). Florism (199). Zoological observations (200). Phenological observations (200). Other observations (202).
Taking photographs and journaling
Travel photography (202). Keeping a hiking diary (205).

Protection of nature, historical and cultural monuments
Nature conservation
Careful attitude towards vegetation (206). Compliance with fire regulations (207). Maintaining cleanliness and silence (208). About the benefits of animals (208). Compliance with hunting and fishing rules (209). Bird conservation (210). Forest pest control (210). Rules for visiting protected natural areas (211). Legal protection of nature (212). The tourist is a friend of nature (213).
Protection of historical and cultural monuments
The importance of monuments for tourists (214). Types of historical and cultural monuments (215). On caring for monuments (215). Exploration and registration of historical and cultural monuments (216). Participation of tourists in the protection of monuments (217).

Tourist's Pocket Guide/Author-comp. Yu. A. Sturmer.—2nd ed., with amendments. and additional—M.: Profizdat, 1982. — 224 p.

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