A Wilderness Walking Staff is a hiking staff designed for wilderness safety and subsistence living in North America's backcountry. Over mountain, through desert, forest, seacoast, swamp and bayou, the Wilderness Walking Staff (W.W.S.) caters to an outdoors person's basic needs. With over 50 pieces of equipment, wilderness safety and the means to subsistence living are at one's finger tips.

With a W.W.S., a backpacker, day hiker, or, Scout, has a dependable, life-saving survival tool on their person at all times. With the equipment you place on the W.W.S., you'll have access to a high level of wilderness self-sufficiency like never before. Nothing compares to its versatility. Not only is a W.W.S. reliable in an emergency, it is also practical around camp and on the trail. You'll have the advantage of "Support," "Security" and "Service" as described in the e-book, as well as the ability to; build a plastic shelter, match-lit or flint and steel based fires, catch fish, set snares, write messages, purify water, store a small food source, keep warm with space-age technology, signal help, administer first-aid, provide lighting and so much more (as you'll see).

With a W.W.S., you'll have immediate access to all your survival gear, including all-important first-aid supplies--three quick pulls on the Velcro straps and you have first-aid supplies and a space-blanket at the ready. Another two quick pulls on the Velcro straps and you've got the W.W.S.'s map case, including a pad and pencil. You'll have fishing line and hooks and water-purification tablets, as well as a sealed tube-flare. Of course, there's much more than this-- the W.W.S. is more than simply "survival-orientated."

A W.W.S. is convenient. Need to sharpen your pocket-knife?--the W.W.S. has a sharpening pad just for that purpose--no fumbling for the stone in the backpack. Want to maintain course 47 degrees, but don't want to keep fidgeting with your compass to make sure you're still on track?--the W.W.S. will keep you on course with only an occasional glance at the recessed compass atop the W.W.S.. Thirsty in the morning?--use the W.W.S.'s 2' by 2' towel, soak up the morning's dew and squeeze for a quick, refreshing drink. Cold at night?--remove the W.W.S.'s space-blanket and put it in your sleeping bag. With all of these features (and there are many more), the W.W.S. is still more than the sum of it's parts: the W.W.S. is an outdoors person's safety system.

With the Wilderness Walking Staff all your needs are taken into account should you be visiting the backwoods. These are described in detail in the Wilderness Walking Staff Electronic Book or W.W.S.E.B.:

• Shelter: the W.W.S.E.B. describes 5 types, including the new Quickshelters.
• Clothing: the W.W.S.E.B. explains how to make emergency wear.
• Navigation Aids: the W.W.S.E.B. shows how to use astronomical indicators in conjunction with the W.W.S. & more.
• Emergency Food Source: the W.W.S.E.B. suggests a food items list for a small food canister.
• Fire: the W.W.S.E.B. covers emergency fires in detail, describing 5 methods including flint & steel (the W.W.S. has a recessed flint stick), the emergency shavings fire & more.
• Security: the W.W.S.E.B.'s tips on security range from using a staff for personal defense to constructing an emergency field hospital for an injured hiker.
• Service: the W.W.S.E.B. describes the myriad functions of a "plain" walking staff, from backrests to drying clothing.
• Support: the W.W.S.E.B. tells how a walking staff supports you physically on the trail.
• Camp Crafts: the W.W.S.E.B. shows you how to cook, plant seedlings, use a staff as a hiking record & more.
• Life-saving Features: the W.W.S.E.B. covers the Emergency Crutch, Emergency Stretcher and the W.W.S. Solar Water Still.
• Training: the W.W.S.E.B. encourages wilderness training in conjunction with a staff, i.e., building Quickshelters, emergency stretchers, & more.
• Exercise: the W.W.S.E.B. has a calistenics program which incorporates the use of a walking staff in one's camp morning routine. It lists 10 separate exercises.
• Much more: please see the contents list of, "The Wilderness Walking Staff Electronic Book," for complete details on the various possibilities of a walking staff in the backwoods. No other book has defined the myriad uses of a walking staff in North America's backcountry like, "The Wilderness Walking Staff Electronic Book ".