Free field guide

From the desk to any trail in sixty days.

Five small habits, hung on the five prayers you already pray.

The Trail Ready guide: the cover, flat hills under a dawn sky with a gold trail, and two inner pages

Can my body do this? By day sixty, yes.

It starts with a two-hour walk at a talking pace, today.

4½ hwith a pack on
2 nightsoutdoors
10 du'asfor the road

Everything between the desk and the trailhead.

Forty-five pages. Read in a weekend, used for sixty days.

The Five-Anchor Method

Five small habits, one after each prayer. Two minutes each to begin.

The sixty-day plan

One table of walks, from ninety minutes to four and a half hours with a pack.

The workouts

Fifteen minutes after Asr, twice a week. Tables, no gym.

Six Saturdays outdoors

One rung further each time, from a park bench to a night in a tent.

Gear, food, feet

What to buy in the order you need it, how to eat on foot, how to stay blister free.

Du'as for the trail

A card for every moment of a day on foot, in Arabic and English.

How the sixty days go

  1. Day 1The two-hour walk
  2. Week 4First hill, pack on
  3. Week 5A night in a tent
  4. Week 84½ hours with a pack
  5. Day 60Trail ready
Imam Dawood Yasin, portrait

Written by Imam Dawood Yasin

Imam of the Islamic Center of Greater Austin. Twenty-five years taking Muslims into the outdoors. By the grace of Allah, the people who walk with him come home different.

Every hadith and verse in the guide is checked against the collections.

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Sixty days from today, you could be standing at a trailhead.