On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.

A brief exploration of what camping guides do on the job, including the equipment they use and the training they need, plus real-life instances of camping guides working in America's state and national parks.

"The Outdoor Exploration Club is going camping on Christmas, and the more the merrier!"--Back cover.

Even though they do things very differently, friends Fred and Ted enjoy going camping together in the woods.

On a senior class camping trip, four girls find themselves lost in the woods, their supplies destroyed, and hunted by a killer. On a mandatory senior field trip, a flash flood cuts off Sera, Lucas, Emily and Jude from their group with no way to call for help. But they're not as alone as they thought... when they wake up, words are inked onto their skin. Someone is stalking them-- drugging them, stealing their supplies. As the hunter grows bolder...

Mike is always clumsy and inept when he goes camping with his friends, but one night his problems come in handy.

Gives practical advice on how to camp and how to make camping better, covering trip planning, gear, setting up, cooking, recreation, not getting lost, safety, weather, and other related topics.

A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a corner in the trail. Dan barely had time for "bear charging" to register before it had him on the ground. His life was shattered by the mauling that nearly killed him,...

"From this moment on, you're a bear cub. You'll learn responsibility and respect. How to survive. It's easier if you just accept it." Dawn isn't a bad person--she's just made some bad choices: wrong guy, wrong friends, wrong everything. But she wasn't expecting her parents to pay a boatload of money to ship her off to Out of the Wild, a wilderness boot camp with a bunch of other messed up kids to learn important "life lessons." It's true that Dawn...