Camping with kids adds a whole new dimension to getting outside. With three boys of our own, we know how important it is to connect with our children and with the great outdoors. We want to teach our kids to love camping, love sleeping in a tent, love being out in nature… The best way to do that is to show them how to make it easy and fun! Just imagine the great memories of camping and roadtrips and adventures your kids will have! Getting out with kids can be challenging but the health benefits and emotional rewards of being together out in nature make it worth it.
Bodie is turning 9 next week, and like all parents everywhere I have no idea where those 9 years went. This is therefore a perfect opportunity to reminisce about our early camping experiences with baby Bodie. The first time we took him camping… I can’t even remember. He was 7
In late June we found some friends to join us for camping in Northern NM. We started out with an afternoon at the Great Sand Dunes—the conditions were perfect. Lots of wide shallow water for safe play with minimal parenting, no mosquitoes, and nice hot sun. I love the sand
POOP! I’m going to talk about POOP! It’s going to get real. Because I’m feeling like the honey badger tonight (“honey badger doesn’t give a ****!”). Yes, people have written plenty about shitting in the woods before. Few, however, will have been quite as detailed and as graphic as I
We just returned from a three-night camping trip for labor-day weekend, exploring new areas in southern CO and northern NM. It was filled with the usual: the giggles of super happy little boys messing around in the tent at bedtime; Emerson laying in the dirt playing with his cars (everywhere);
The Santa Fe and Carson National Forests have implemented Stage 3 fire restrictions, which means that we aren’t allowed in them, at all. Not even for hiking or climbing, let alone camping. This deprives us of all nearby camping and outdoor recreation. This weekend we decided to explore the Rio
We just completed a surprisingly successful ten-day family roadtrip around southwest Utah. The whole family, all of us jammed in the xterra, camping at 8 different campsites in 10 nights, driving every day but one. It was a lot of driving, but we managed to split it up over the
The other day, I ran into a friend outside of the grocery store. She told me that their family was getting ready to go camping. She sighed as she said it, shoulders slumped, and declared, “It’s just so hard, you know? There is just so much stuff to do…” She
*In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day, I thought I’d add a post from May 2016* I’m not sure WHY we felt the need to go camping on Memorial Day weekend, THE busiest camping weekend of the year. We go camping year-around, so why we chose this weekend to
When our first son was only 7 weeks old (yes, you read that right), we decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary by camping in the national forest outside of Durango, CO. Since it was barely October – and our brains had been frazzled from lack of sleep – we didn’t
(written 1/17/22 about a trip 1/21/18) Another dad and I took our families to the Long John yurt at Enchanted Forest x-country ski area, just east of Red River, NM. It is an excellent beginner yurt experience: the hike is short (2.25 miles one way), the trails are groomed, and
(Writing this 1/23/22 about a trip in August 2016) I took Jasper and Bodie up into the Jemez by myself for one (or two?) nights of camping. It rained pretty continuously on us. Shortly after we got into the tent, Jasper got sick, puked in the tent. I cleaned that