Outdoor Recreation Safety

Provides practical safety guidelines for a broad range of activities. The 19 contributions look at managing medical emergencies in the outdoors, legal responsibility for recreational safety, and specific safety issues in hiking, winter camping, mountaineering, rock climbing, sailing, skin diving, hunting and shooting, and in-line skating. Included is information on everything from hand signals for water skiers to what to pack in a First Aid kit. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.