Growing up in Alberta, with parents who loved being in the mountains, we spent a lot of family time hiking in the Rockies. While we may have complained once or twice as kids (well, maybe several hundred times if the truth be told), the many days (and nights) we spent in the mountains helped us develop a real appreciation of the awe and grandeur of the Canadian Rockies. Now, on our summers out west, my husband and I are trying to pass on our love of the mountains to our own children—and we’re doing our own cajoling and convincing to get them up and down the very same trails.
And despite the crying and complaining we’ve endured, we can already tell they are developing that same sense of appreciation, at the tender ages of age 8, 7 and 5. They’ve named their favourite mountains and they will happily hike when distracted by interesting things along the way (streams you can throw rocks in are a fave). We’ve developed a few strategies over the last few years to get them to the end of the trail and back too:
Happy trails!
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