Steve Boga - Camping and Backpacking With Children
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This guide to making outdoor experiences enjoyable for parents and children covers proper equipment, hiking, living in camp, coping with the weather, staying healthy, and surviving in the wild.
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Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
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Printed in the United States of America
Cover photo by William J. Boga Cover design by Mark Olszewski Illustrations by Karen Boga
First Edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boga, Steve, 1947 Camping and backpacking with children / Steven Boga.1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0811725227 1. Camping. 2. Backpacking. 3. Family recreation. I. Title. GV191.7.B64 1994 795.54dc20 94-23013 CIP
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Contents
Ackowledgments
v
Preface
1
1 How to Build Enthusiasm
5
2 How to Pick the Right Equipment
16
3 How to Pack the Right Equipment
40
4 How to Get There from Anywhere
52
5 How to Move Along the Trail
60
6 How to Live in Camp
78
7 How to Weather the Outdoors
120
8 How to Treat Wildlife Like You'd Like to be Treated
130
9 How to Stay Healthy in the Outdoors
164
10 How to Survive in the Wild
201
11 How to Do the Outdoors with Babies and Small Children
238
12 How to Get Home Again
245
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Dedicated to my two remaining heroes, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, who through their writings taught me about nature, and to my daughter, Madeleine, who through her curiosity and enthusiasm furthers my nature education.
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Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the generous assistance of many happy campers.
Heartfelt thanks to the parentsJeff Doran and Catherine Hallahan-Doran, Cindy Gronroos, Tim Hallahan and Ann Hansen, Jim Hamilton, and Bruce Maxwell and Ann Briceand their kidsSarah, Ben, and Jack Doran; Nick Gronroos; Brett Hallahan; Alistair Hamilton; and Tandy and Veery Maxwell.
Awestruck thanks to Mike Corbett and Ken Yager, who showed me that they could indeed get their young daughters, Ellie Tenaya Corbett and Hayley Sequoia Yager, to the top of Half Dome.
Respectful thanks to Jay Knick for the personal equipment seminarsand for allowing me to play with the gear at Sonoma Outfitters, his store in Santa Rosa, California.
Editorial thanks to Bruce Maxwell, Ann Brice, Tom and Jean Makris, Dan and Jan O'Connell, and my wife, Karen, who does a lot of the grunt work with only sporadic complaints.
Special thanks to my parents for putting me on trails and editing manuscripts, and especially to my dad, who endured backpacking trips with a perpetually adolescent sonand still found time to take pictures.
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Preface
The mountains are calling, and I must go. John Muir
1958: We have been studying this weird guy John Muir in school. He used to hike around in the high mountains with only a blanket and a few biscuits, and today I got to see the trail that's named after him. Mom, Dad, and I are camping in Yosemite Valley, where Muir hung out a lot. This morning, Dad took me to Happy Isles, to the start (they call it the "trailhead") of the John Muir Trail. We stood there for what seemed like a long time, just staring at the trail sign, a big old iron thing with stenciled names and numbers that looked like it might have been around when that guy Muir first stood there. It listed nice-sounding places like Sunrise and Palisade Lakes, and incredible distances! "Mount Whitney: 212 miles." I can't imagine walking that far.
A couple of hikers carrying green backpacks and fishing gear came up from the parking lot. They stopped for a second to read the sign, then gave each other kind of strained smiles and headed up the trail with real determination. I watched them a long time. I couldn't help wondering, "Where are they going? How long will they be gone?"
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