At Home Adventure Resource Kit

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I have never been a big reader… I will be the first to admit that. But give me a good documentary, an audio book or an online class and my attention can not be waived and as we spend more time at home I have (with a lot of your help) compiled an extensive list of books, movies, documentaries, short films, TV shows, podcasts and miscellaneous online resources to help us all feel a little but more inspired and prepared to get outside. With several hundred recommendations I have listed all relevant outdoor, adventure and inspirational resource below in alphabetical order, an asterisk indicates that there were multiple recommendations for that specific resource.

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Books

*indicates multiple recommendations

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Soln

• A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean

• A River Runs Through It and Other Stories - Norman Maclean

• A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There - Aldo Leopold

• A Walk For Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail - Jeff Alt

• A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson*

• Alpine Warriors - Bernadette McDonald

• American Canopy - Eric Rutlow

• Annapurna, a woman's place - Arlene Blum*

• Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger

• Barbarian Days - William Finnegan

• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - William Finnegan

• Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail - Jennifer Pharr Davis

• Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic - Adam Shoalts

• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDougall*

• Boy Scout Handbook - Boy Scouts of America*

• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer*

• Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival - Dave Canterbury

• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins

• Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table - Dylan Tomine

• Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales

• Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales

• Denali: A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime - Ben Moon

• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey

• Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac*

• Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods - Christine Byl

• Doctor on Everest - Kenneth Kamler

• Eating Dirt. Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe - Charlotte Gill

• Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer

• Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone - George Black

• Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne

• Geology of the Sierra Nevada - Mary Hill

• Gobi - Reinhold Messner

• Gold Diggers - Charoltte Grey

• Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

• How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art - Kathleen Meyer

• How to Stay Alive in the Woods - Bradford Angier

• In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin

• Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness - Pete Fromm

• Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer*

• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer*

• Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

• It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska - Adrienne Lindholm

• John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail - Elizabeth Wenk and Kathy Morey

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

• Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road - Kate Harris

• Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks - Mark Woods

• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard

• Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet - Jesse Itzler

• Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills - The Mountaineers (textbook)*

• Mountains of the Mind - Robert Macfarlane

• National Audubon Field Guides

• No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks - David Roberts and Ed Viesturs

• North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail - Scott Jurek*

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

• Speak to the Earth: Wanderings and Reflections Among Elephants and Mountains - Vivienne De Watteville

• Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling - Matthew Dicks

• Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive - Les Stroud

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho*

• The Call of the Wild - Jack London

• The Calling: A Life Lifted by Mountains - Barry Blanchard

• The Consolations of the Forest - Sylvain Tesson

• The Eight Mountains - Paulo Cognetti

• The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant

• The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest - Timothy Egan

• Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery - Steph Jagger

• The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills - Tristan Gooley

• The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds - Pete Fromm

• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative - Florenc Williams

• The Once and Future World - JB McKinnon

• The Overstory - Richard Powers

• The Road - Jack London

• The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert - Craig Childs

• The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

• The song of the dodo - David Quammen

• The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel

• The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey Into the Alaskan Wilds - Caroline Van Hemert

• The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer

• The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West - Nate Blakeslee

• The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World - Kim Dinan

• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home - Heather Anderson*

• To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret - Jedidiah Jenkins*

• Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikaelsen

• Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival Paperback - Joe Simpson

• Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback - Robyn Davidson

• Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete - Scott Johnston and Steve House

• Undaunted Courage - Stephen E. Ambrose

• Upstream: Selected Essays - Mary Oliver

• Vagabonding - Rolf Potts

• Walden - Henry David Thoreau*

• Wild - Cheryl Strayed*

• Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival - Les Stroud

• Women in Wilderness - Miriam Lancewood

• Woodswoman - Anne LaBastille

Movies/tv shows/documentaries

*indicates multiple recommendations

• 127 Hours

• 180° South*

• A Walk in the Woods*

• Alone In the Wilderness

• America Wild: National Parks Adventure*

• Artifishal: The Road To Extinction Is Paved With Good Intentions

• Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable

• Blue Planet

• CosmosÂ

• Desert Runners

• Everest*

• Expedition Happiness

• Fantastic Fungi

• Find Me

• Fishpeople

• Free Solo*

• Good Will Hunting*

• Home (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

• Human Planet

• Ikiru

• In the Shadow of the Moon

• Into the Grand Canyon

• Into the Wild*

• Jumbo Wild

• K2

• Kingdom of the White Wolf

• Kings of Summer

• Leaving the Frame (German)

• Life Below Zero

• Life Cycles

• Magical Andes

• Meru*

• Mile... Mile & a Half

• Moonrise Kingdom

• Mountain

• Mountain of Storms - Pataognia

• Night on Earth

• One Strange Rock

• Only the Essential: A Hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail*

• Our Planet

• Planet Earth*

• Queen Maud Land

• Return to Mount Kennedy

• Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time

• Tales by Light*

• The Art of Flight

• The Climb

• The Dawn Wall*

• The Gardener

• The Hunt

• The Last Man on the Moon

• The Road From Karakol

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty*

• The Way*

• The Yukon Assignment

• This Mountain Life*

• Touching the Void

• Tracks

• Under an Arctic Sky

• Valley Uprising*

• War on Waste

• Wild*

A lot of these films (and many many more) are available for free on the Banff Mountain Film Festival website. And if you ever have the chance to see this film festival in real life (especially in its home of Banff, Alberta - do it).

podcasts

*indicates multiple recommendations

• 99% Invisible

• Adorama

• Armchair Expert - Dax Shepard

• Bear 148 (I loved this one)

• Cascade Hiker

• Chase Jarvis LIVE Show (ep.Finding True North with Chelsea Yamase)

• Climate One

• Dirtbag Diaries*

• Dolly Parton's America

• Fastest Known Time (episode 47- Jennifer Pharr Davis)

• From Tree to Shining Tree - Radiolab

• Get off my Lawn

• Goop

• Hidden Brain

• Hike: Explore | Wander | Live

• Intellegence Matters

• Joe Rogan (ep. Matthew Walker)

• Kwik Brain

• Life on the Outside

• Mark Groves

• Occupation Wild

• Outside Podcast :Science of SurvivalÂ

• Rich Roll*

• She Explores

• Sickboy

• The Caroline Gleich Show

• The Firn Line

• The Good Life Project (ep.Elizabeth Gilbert)

• The Sharp End

• The Stokecast* (I personally loved Christian Schaffer’s episode)

• Tundra Talks (ep. 3,6,9,30,35,60)

• Wilderness Tracks

• Zero to Travel - Gunnar Garfors*

online classes

*indicates multiple recommendations

• My personal favourite: University of Alberta : Mountains 101

• University of Copenhagen: Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health

• EDx

• Yale University : The Science of Wellbeing

• Udemy

• Strohl Works

• Masterclass: Jimmy Chin

Apps

*indicates multiple recommendations

• Alitmiter

• All Trails*

• Alpenvereinaktiv (Europe Specific)

• Avenza Map

• CalTopo

• Carin

• Chimani : National Parks

• Fat Map

• Giaia GPS

• Good On You

• Google Earth

• Guru Maps

• Guthook

• Half Mile

• Hiking Project

• iNaturalist

• Komoot

• Mapify

• MapOut

• Maps 3D

• Maps.me*

• MedWild

• Merlin

• Mountain Project

• Notion

• OnX*

• OSMAnd

• Outt (Norway Specific)

• ParkAdvisor

• PeakFinder*

• PeakVisor

• PhotoPills

• Pocket Earth (Europe Specific)

• QuickMap (California Specific)

• REI National Parks*

• RoadTripper

• Seek by iNaturalist

• SkyMap

• Star Walk 2

• Strava

• The Outbound

• The Photographer's Ephemeris

• TPE 3D

• Trail Forks

• Trail Run Project

• ViewRanger

• Wapta App (coming soon)

• WeatherBug

• Whoop

• Wilkiloc

• WTA (Washington specific)

If there is anything that you feel I have missed or a resource here that you would like to personally endorse - please leave a comment below and I will update this list on a continual basis.

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