hiking with kids

Taking babes into the woods

If you let a kid in the forest be a kid, he or she will take to hiking like moss takes to a streamside boulder during a damp spring. That means letting your little ones get a bit dirty and wet, letting them pick up bugs and worms and letting them stop along the trail to, say, get a pungent whiff of skunk cabbage. And you just might find yourself growing an active and healthy young hiker with a sense of connection to what makes the Northwest the Northwest.

By Greg Johnston | June 5, 2008