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... For your first trip, pick a spot within a few hours of home and plan to stay no more than two or three nights (you want your kids to beg for more, not beg to go home). ...
Family Backpacking
Backpacking in a wilderness area is the surest way to find serenity and isolation, but since it involves hiking to your site and carrying all of your equipment, we waited to try it as a family until our kids were in grade school.
Friends whove backpacked with younger kids report its simpler to manage with babies (who are easy to carry) than with toddlers (who are not). ... Fruit, roasted marshmallows and, of course, Smores are favorite desserts (I confess: Catharine and I sometimes smuggle Swiss chocolate bars into the tent to eat after the kids have fallen asleep).
Approximate Word count = 758 Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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