In this landmark book, the first of its kind in outdoor literature, author Michael Bane examines personal safety in the outdoors. He describes a relationship between awareness, intuition, and fear that, when fully understood, can both enhance our relationship with the wild and help keep us secure. TRAIL SAFE grew out of Bane's unique background, which in addition to extensive time in the backcountry, includes the martial arts, firearms competition and training, a stint as a guest terrorist at Ft. Benning running simulations against police SWAT teams and ten years in the high-risk sports arena. Bane has climbed 20,000 foot mountains, explored flooded caves as one of the small number of certified cave divers in the world, climbed frozen waterfalls, raced mountain bikes downhill at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour, skydived, para-sailed, scuba dived to the dark world at depths of 300 or more feet, bicycled across Death Valley in July and the Iditarod Trail in Alaska in February, pitc . CLICK HERE TO START DOWNLOAD