Kids now have a chance to interact with role models to help them get outdoors. In partnership with REI, The North Face/REI recently announced an 11-City Role Models Speaker Series designed to give parents the advice and inspiration they need to get outside and active with their kids… Top athlete parents from The North Face, … Read more →
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Special Q&A with Helen Olsson, Author of The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids
Camping-with-kids-ophobes take heart – there’s a new book out to help make things easier. Travel writer Helen Olsson has just released The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures & Connect Kids to Nature (Roost Books, April 2012), sharing the lessons she’s learned over the years with camping … Read more →
Outdoor Nation Plans 10 Summits for 2012 to Help Get Youth Outdoors
Want to get in on the nation’s most momentum-filled movement to get kids outdoors? Head to one of Outdoor Nation’s 10 Summits, presented by The North Face, The Conservation Fund and REI Foundation, to provide training and leadership development to help bring the next generation of outdoor activists together. In just two years, Outdoor Nation … Read more →
L.L.Bean Ups Commitment to Get Kids, Families Outdoors with Donations, Tips and New Courses
Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this year L.L.Bean will launch over 40 new course offerings through its popular Outdoor Discovery Schools to help get kids and families outside. Ranging from multiday expeditions to free clinics in the store, all programs are designed to help families discover new outdoor activities and learn fresh skills in outdoor recreation. … Read more →
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Parent Tales
Matt Takes the Family to Joshua Tree (Part I)
For the last three years, we’ve been remodeling our humble abode in Hollywood. Well, New Year’s came and my resolution was to have an outdoor life again — no more saving for the house, no more working on the house, just fun. Since we haven’t taken a vacation for the last five years, I granted … Read more →
A Mindful Life Approach to Getting Your Kids Outdoors
(By Kirsten Race, Mindful Life) The other morning I was on a hike with my daughter. It was a perfect setting, yet my daughter could not stop complaining that she was too tired to walk “all the way to the pond” and she might get stung by a bee and she had pebbles in her … Read more →
Building a Camping Hot Tub 101!
Whether it’s the long, cold, dark winters, high-latitude ingenuity or perhaps a few too many ions slipping through the aurora borealis-filled atmosphere, parents up in Alaska are a bit more creative — and perhaps, whacky — than most. And they have to be, what with three seasons: winter, June, July and August. Case in point: … Read more →
Steamboat Powdercats Family Kids Powder Pups Adventure
Who says kids skiing has to be confined to chairlifts at resorts? Certainly not Steamboat Powder Cats, which recently ran its first ever kids cat skiing trip atop Buff Pass in Steamboat Springs, Co. Joining our two daughters, Casey, 7, and Brooke, 12, piling in snowcat named “Tigger” were five other kids aged 2-7, all … Read more →
