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I have a 1 year old and I think by next fall she'll either be too big or too wiggly to be carried in the backpack carrier (Kelty Kids). Does anyone take thier toddlers hiking? Camping? Any suggestions? We go in the mountains of PA.
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I took my son on his first hike at six months old, in a Snugli carrier, with a daypack on my back. A month later we went on our only backpacking trip using the same carrier. By the time he was 9 months old we'd switched to a Kelty Meadow KIDS carrier, which we used for two years for day hiking, but as my wife is too weak to carry the kid, we never were able to figure out how to go backpacking, unless I carried over 50 lbs, including the kid, which is too much for the Kelty Meadow.
We used the Kelty until he was 2 years & 5 months old when we tried to experiment to see how far he could walk, which was about 33% of the time, with 66% of the time riding on my shoulders, which wasn't very comfortable. So we purchased a Sherpani Rhumba UL carrier for our vacation to Hawaii, at age 2 1/2, weight 30 lbs, and he rode in that about 66% of the time on several day hikes. (I don't recommend that carrier because the stitching came out and we had to return it, but we did get a full refund.)
At around 2 years, 10 months he hiked about 75% of the way on a seven mile hike around Muir Woods NM, the rest on my shoulders. I don't plan to put him in a carrier any more, but if we hadn't had it in Hawaii our hikes would've been impossible.
We never had a problem with wiggliness. You are kind of torturing them if you keep them in there a long time, so we never did extremely long hikes, and always stopped and let him rest and play as much as possible, moving no more than 1 MPH over a whole day, their experience of the woods just as important as mine. He'd usually fall asleep in the carrier in the afternoon for an hour or two. We never felt the need to bring toys along to keep him quiet.
I took my son on his first hike at six months old, in a Snugli carrier, with a daypack on my back. A month later we went on our only backpacking trip using the same carrier. By the time he was 9 months old we'd switched to a Kelty Meadow KIDS carrier, which we used for two years for day hiking, but as my wife is too weak to carry the kid, we never were able to figure out how to go backpacking, unless I carried over 50 lbs, including the kid, which is too much for the Kelty Meadow.
We used the Kelty until he was 2 years & 5 months old when we tried to experiment to see how far he could walk, which was about 33% of the time, with 66% of the time riding on my shoulders, which wasn't very comfortable. So we purchased a Sherpani Rhumba UL carrier for our vacation to Hawaii, at age 2 1/2, weight 30 lbs, and he rode in that about 66% of the time on several day hikes. (I don't recommend that carrier because the stitching came out and we had to return it, but we did get a full refund.)
At around 2 years, 10 months he hiked about 75% of the way on a seven mile hike around Muir Woods NM, the rest on my shoulders. I don't plan to put him in a carrier any more, but if we hadn't had it in Hawaii our hikes would've been impossible.
We never had a problem with wiggliness. You are kind of torturing them if you keep them in there a long time, so we never did extremely long hikes, and always stopped and let him rest and play as much as possible, moving no more than 1 MPH over a whole day, their experience of the woods just as important as mine. He'd usually fall asleep in the carrier in the afternoon for an hour or two. We never felt the need to bring toys along to keep him quiet.
Backpack Hiking Advice!?
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I am a teen girl, and I love to Hike! I am not too extreme at all...I mostly backpack. I have hiked the grand canyon rim to rim, in Glacier national Park. (just for some backround!) I usually backpack 10-15 miles per day. I have an opportunity to plan a trip for me and my mom to take, and I would like it to be 3-5 days long. Any Suggestions anywhere in North America? (prefrerably south because i have not hiked there recently!) THANKYOU!
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You can ask for more ideas under the "Camping" category, since there is no backpacking category on Yahoo! Answers.
Backpacking ten to twenty miles a day in the mountains is very good. You are more experienced than many hikers. I usually do the same each week in Colorado on my days off work.
One of my favorite areas that falls within your requirements is the Holy Cross Wilderness Area. Other interesting adventures include a hike through the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. A challenging adventure of mine during the past summer was climbing Windom Peak, a Fourteener, which involves taking a narrow-guage train out of Durango for a few hours, getting off at a flag stop, hiking a few hours up to Chicago Basin, camping a few nights, and attempting to summit Windom, Eolus, and (if you are very extreme) Sunshine. Another great overnight involves hiking up Harvard and Columbia or sleeping over at the base of Missouri, Oxford, and Belford.
You can ask for more ideas under the "Camping" category, since there is no backpacking category on Yahoo! Answers.
Backpacking ten to twenty miles a day in the mountains is very good. You are more experienced than many hikers. I usually do the same each week in Colorado on my days off work.
One of my favorite areas that falls within your requirements is the Holy Cross Wilderness Area. Other interesting adventures include a hike through the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. A challenging adventure of mine during the past summer was climbing Windom Peak, a Fourteener, which involves taking a narrow-guage train out of Durango for a few hours, getting off at a flag stop, hiking a few hours up to Chicago Basin, camping a few nights, and attempting to summit Windom, Eolus, and (if you are very extreme) Sunshine. Another great overnight involves hiking up Harvard and Columbia or sleeping over at the base of Missouri, Oxford, and Belford.
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