Learn how to go hiking with the family, including how to calculate distances and hiking safety.
Getting outdoors in cold winter weather is definitely much more of a challenge or, at the very least, a bit of a hassle. But if you are willing to put forth the effort to go hiking in winter, you’ll be rewarded with beautiful views and trails that are refreshingly free of crowds.
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Most children aren’t able to complete hikes on their own until they are around 3-4 years old. So, if you want to go hiking with your baby or toddler, you will need a good hiking stroller or a carrier. As far as carriers go, the first thing to decide is whether you need a soft
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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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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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