• On the hill - useful hint tips and advice on staying safe in the hills including: planning, travel on steep ground, safety on the hill, dealing with animals, environment and sanitation, country side code.
• Equipment - packing your bag, kit list, rucksacks, boots, fuel and stoves, knife axe and saw.
• Shelter - tarps, hammocks, tents, debris shelters, snow shelters.
• Navigation - understand the compass, understanding maps and contours, bearings, walking speed, estimating distance, understanding terrain, bushcraft.
• Weather - safety, temperature and wind chill, avalanche, clouds, wind, beaufort scale, pressure systems and fronts, weatherlore.
• Food & water - recipes, cooking tips, water collection, filtration.
• Knots & lashings - terminology, rope care, stopper knots, climbing knots, sailing knots, bends and hitches, lashings, whipping and splicing, camp gadgets.
• Fire - trees and burning properties, tinders, how to build a fire, friction fire, fire ignition.
• Trees - identification of 40 common UK trees and their uses, history and mythology, winter twigs, bark, leaf morphology.
• Fauna - common UK animal tracks, dear, mustelids, UK birds of prey.
• First Aid - DR ABC & CPR, burns and scalds, cuts and fractures, seizures and attacks, infections and reactions, effects of heat and cold, stings and bites, natural remedies.
• Safety Advice - the priorities of survival, fire safety, water safety, falling through ice, quicksand and mud, avalanche, signalling, risk assessments.

All put together in a ring binder so you can hand out specific pages or take pages on your walks for reference.

Waterproof & wipe clean so finally an outdoor book you can take....outdoors!

Watch out for future additions to the guide and add them in to your ring binder.