5 Tips for Spring Hikes with Kids
Whether it’s one child or a small group of siblings, cousins, or friends, use these 5 tips to prepare for your next hiking adventure. Happy hikers want to go out again.
Out There Kids
Provisions: Family Breakfast Cookies
Simple, healthy cookies that can be a snack, dessert, or second breakfast upon at the ski mountain. Includes oats, bananas, and shredded coconut.
Virtual Learning Recess Activities
Pandemic-induced virtual learning has reduced physical activity. Here are five ways for kids to get exercise during short class breaks on virtual schooldays.
The Butterfly Effect: Connection & Loss
Last Page Essay by Ellen Welcker: Part of what connects us to one another is the undeniable fact that everything we love, we will lose. Life, the seasons, this beautiful, perfect planet—even now they are slipping, ever so slightly from our hold.
Running with My Girls
Run Wild Column: Sarah Hauge keeps trying to get her kids to love running like she does. It’s not going well.
Little Rippers of the Inland NW
Every time I’m on the mountain, witnessing the next generation of skiers and snowboarders tearing it up, I feel hopeful and excited for the future. These kids—thanks to their parents, instructors, and coaches—are daring, brave, and strong, from the bunny hill toddler snowplowing S-turns to the pre-teen blazing down a black diamond. Here are four …
Ski Programs for Kids & Families this Winter
Ski Programs for Kids & Families this Winter Local ski mountain staff are stoked for winter and to welcome guests including young skiers and riders and their parents back to the slopes. Sadly, what caused our season to abruptly end last spring has created new challenges this winter. Particularly in the Inland Northwest, where interstate …
Piggyback Rider Kid Carrier
For kids in the 2-4+ range under 50lbs, the Piggyback Rider can save the day for the rest of the family looking to complete a hike or by-foot outing when little legs get too tired to carry on. It fits the adult like a backpack, but instead of a pack on the back, there is …
7 Ways to Teach Kids to Love Public Lands
Personal experience is the best way to teach kids that every American citizen is a landowner thanks to the preservation and conservation of public lands for the greater good. Here are seven ways to get started. Learn History. Public lands have a rich, in-depth history, and some of it’s ugly—starting with the fact that all U.S. public lands were originally …
Urban Scavenger Hunt: Munzee
The goal of summer is to get kids outside. But what do you do on those no-trip weekends when no one wants to hike or bike but you need to get everyone out of the house? A cross between geocaching and a scavenger hunt, Munzee is an app great for getting outside into new places. Asking my kids to …