Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior in the Outdoors

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Summary: A must read for every outdoors person
Review: Bane's TRAIL SAFE is a must read for anyone that spends time in the wilderness. Forget about the scary animals, it's more likely that a two legged predator will ruin your hiking experiance.Bane's sage advice will keep you safe if you should have an unpleasant encounter miles from the nearest policeman.

Michael Bane's writing style is easy to follow, interesting and throws a humorous light on what could easily be a very dark and intimidating subject. TRAIL SAFE makes the perfect gift for loved ones that enjoy hiking and other wilderness activities. This is the book that Ned Beatty should have read!

Rating:
Summary: Essential, potentially live-saving reading!
Review: Michael Bane's Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior In The Outdoors is the first title specifically designed to prepare the outdoorsman and vacationer to defend themselves against criminal behavior in our nation's public parks as well as other rural and wilderness areas. Trail Safe presents the three-pronged self-defense mechanism centered around intuition, awareness, and fear; the nuts and bolts of risk assessment and planning; and a self-defense decision tree that will enable the reader to determine appropriate reactions to a violent encounter, should one occur. Trail Safe is essential, potentially life-saving reading for anyone spending any time in wilderness areas whether hiking, biking, camping, canoeing, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, or any other recreational purpose.

Rating:
Summary: Essential, potentially live-saving reading!
Review: Michael Bane's Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior In The Outdoors is the first title specifically designed to prepare the outdoorsman and vacationer to defend themselves against criminal behavior in our nation's public parks as well as other rural and wilderness areas. Trail Safe presents the three-pronged self-defense mechanism centered around intuition, awareness, and fear; the nuts and bolts of risk assessment and planning; and a self-defense decision tree that will enable the reader to determine appropriate reactions to a violent encounter, should one occur. Trail Safe is essential, potentially life-saving reading for anyone spending any time in wilderness areas whether hiking, biking, camping, canoeing, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, or any other recreational purpose.

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Summary: May I have another star, please?
Review: On a 1-5 scale, it is a six (6*).

Bane's writing is clear and to the point. He sets up a system for logically analyzing your situation _before_ you get into a situation.

His step-by-step process applies to the urban jungle as well as the Amazon or Congo. I'm sure he would rather have you read a different book for the urban jungle, but his rationale applies there as well as the "Outdoors."

His procedure will help you decide what you want to carry, when you want to carry, and how to use it.

If you have already decided that you will never use lethal force, read the book anyway. It will help you be prepared for _any_ level of outdoor misbehavior. With or without a gun.

As a very mildly competitive tactical pistol shooter, I know that I must decide, before I enter the wild, or the urban jungle, whether or not I'm going to carry, and when or not I will shoot, or run, or whatever.

Bane gives his readers the tools to use, and a plan to use, before ultimate danger is encountered.

Don't get me wrong, this is NOT a judo/bali-song/44 magnum how-to fight book, it is a how-to use the weapon between your ears book.

Order the book, lock the door, and read it before you go out.

Rating:
Summary: Well written
Review: This is a well written book about being safe while hiking, camping, or backpacking. It wisely provides guidance on how to avoid or retreat from potentially bad situations and likewise has a frank but practical discussion on the merits of self defense on the trail. It does not hype the crime that happens on trails and at campgrounds which is good and bad. Good in that it does not try to present the outdoors as a "war zone" but bad in that more stories about bad situations would provide readers with more guidance on how things go wrong and how to avoid bad situations.

Rating:
Summary: Well written
Review: This is a well written book about being safe while hiking, camping, or backpacking. It wisely provides guidance on how to avoid or retreat from potentially bad situations and likewise has a frank but practical discussion on the merits of self defense on the trail. It does not hype the crime that happens on trails and at campgrounds which is good and bad. Good in that it does not try to present the outdoors as a "war zone" but bad in that more stories about bad situations would provide readers with more guidance on how things go wrong and how to avoid bad situations.