Download or read book The Bare Essential Camper's Tour du Mont Blanc written by K.R. ALLCOAT and published by Busco Books. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a Tour du Mont Blanc guide book aimed specifically at campers and bivouackers. Throughout human history, navigators of the land and sea have relied on the sun and stars, points of light in the sky, to guide them. In the northern hemisphere the only fixed point is the pole star, at the tail of the little bear constellation, Ursa Minor. Mont Blanc, the Grandes Jorasses (Pointe Walker), and the massif have inspired poets and adventurers for centuries. Now, little bear Chorkie Walker is on hand to guide campers as they navigate the Tour du Mont Blanc, with Bare Essential Places of Interest, Navigation, Transport & Shopping - WALKER P.O.I.N.T.S., and to inspire them to go wild and go freely. With rhyming verse, explicative text, simplified maps, and copious photos, forty locations for legal camping or bivouac are listed. Between the main trail and over thirty independent variant paths, variations and short cuts, not to mention escape routes, there's plenty of scope to plan and execute a bespoke route, and even to find some solitude, on one of the world's busiest and most beautiful hiking trails. Weighing only 130g, a pocket-sized paperback guide is also available for the weight-conscious hiker. Both formats are intended for use in conjunction with a 1:50,000 scale or higher map, and/or GPS tracking on a smartphone. Additional material is available for free download in the form of tips and gpx maps.