Mountaineers Books  Freedom of the Hills Deck Playing Cards

• Diamond cards include essentials for hiking and camping, like choosing a campsite, reading a topographic map, adhering to Leave No Trace principles and storing food
• Diamonds also have tips for anticipating weather and dealing with animal encounters
• Club cards include mountain skills, such as the fundamentals of glacier travel, the Ten Essentials, evaluating avalanche hazard and tips for avalanche terrain
• Clubs also have essentials for snow travel, the basics of self-arresting and crevasse rescue and more
• Heart cards include first-aid skills, such as tips for stocking your first-aid kit, preventing dehydration and hypothermia and assessing an injured person
• Hearts also have indicators of a possible head injury, accident response strategies, common gastrointestinal disorders, water treatment methods and more
• Spade cards have climbing skills, such as basics of belaying, face and crack climbing techniques, tying a rewoven figure eight, setting up to rappel, coiling a rope and more
• Spades also include anchor fundamentals, the importance of clear, concise communication and more

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