This handy little deck is packed with essential tips for outdoor adventures. Brush up on essential knots, refresh your navigation skills, review fundamental Leave No Trace principles, or deal a hand of basic climbing skills!
Diamonds: Wilderness Skills. Essentials for hiking and camping, like choosing a campsite, reading a topographic map, adhering to Leave No Trace principles, storing food, anticipating weather, and dealing with animal encounters.
Clubs: Mountain Skills. Mountain-centric skills, such as the fundamentals of glacier travel, the Ten Essentials, evaluating avalanche hazard, tips for avalanche terrain, essentials for snow travel, the basics of self-arresting and crevasse rescue, and more.
Hearts: First-Aid Skills. Tips for stocking your first-aid kit, preventing dehydration and hypothermia, and assessing an injured person, plus indicators of a possible head injury, accident response strategies, common gastrointestinal disorders, water treatment methods, and more.
Spades: Climbing Skills. Skills and techniques such as the basics of belaying; face and crack climbing techniques; tying a rewoven figure eight; setting up to rappel; coiling a rope; anchor fundamentals; the importance of clear, concise communication; and more.
