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INTRODUCTION,

CHAPTER 1

This is the warm up chapter. It introduces my style and offers hints about using this handbook. Along the way, I'll expose backcountry bogeymen and old husbands' tales for what they really are. The supreme boss (Mother Nature) and the handbook's icons are also presented, as is a little 4WD history.

Throughout, I only offer resources for solutions, not solutions and techniques for all situations. The spectrum of 4-wheeling is quite broad. I'll spend a great deal of talk-time at the tough end of the scale. However, I hope, like me, you spend most of your trail-time below 50%. That's the fun zone. It's exciting but not damagingly rough!

THE COYOTE'S WORLD

Hi, I'm known as the Silver Coyote and I want to personally share my 4WD knowledge with you. 4WD presents an opportunity to experience the pioneering spirit and sense of adventure on which this country was built. The confidence to venture forth and discover the serenity and seclusion of Mother Nature is just around the next page. Throughout, my analogies bounce around many aspects of life. Welcome to the philosophical world of the Coyote.

Life is: a point of view, a perspective, an attitude, a philosophy, or how many ways can you say, "It depends on how you look at it." Life is a state of mind. To responsibly travel the backcountry is no different.

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