Offers tips and techniques for surviving in the outdoors, covering map-reading, navigation, crossing rivers, camping, finding water and food, emergencies, and other related topics.
Provides ideas for activities to enhance backyard camping experiences and demonstrate the connection between nature and science. Also includes safety tips and several recipes.
Five youngsters camping in a ghost town in eastern Oregon have a busy vacation catching reptiles, looking for ghosts, and trying to prevent the sale of the town to resort developers.