As a 5’1” woman, finding hiking gear which fits is often a challenge, but I didn’t expect it to be so difficult to find a hiking child carrier for petite women. After all, it’s usually the moms I see carrying their kids on the trail. Yet, most hiking carrier backpacks are made for people who
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Our knees can take quite a beating while hiking. The knee pain sometimes gets so bad that I’ve heard of backpackers who’ve had to walk down hills backwards in order to complete the hike! Here’s what Brent Wells, a practicing chiropractor based out of Alaska, has to say about what causes hiking knee pain and
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This article is brought to you by Joshua Castle who is a professional and licensed snake catcher in Brisbane, Australia. He definitely knows his stuff when it comes to telling whether a snake is about to strike! As a backpacker, I keep my distance from any snakes I see but it is still incredibly useful
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I recently got Lyme disease for the first time. Luckily, I was able to catch it early and, other than a few days of extreme fatigue, I am doing fine. Since my Lyme rash didn’t look like a standard bull’s-eye rash right away, I thought I’d share some photos of my Lyme rash as well
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Most children aren’t able to complete hikes on their own until they are at least three or four years old. So, unless you want to carry your kid in your arms (you don’t!), you’ll need a child hiking carrier. There’s a high learning curve to using child carrier backpacks though. Here are some tips to
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Honestly, hiking with a two-year-old can kind of suck (though the same can be said about doing anything adultish with a two-year-old). But, once I made some changes to the way I hike, it started to actually be fun.
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