Recreating with Kids

Yvon Chouinard can have his Let My People Go Surfing book. Thanks to longtime paddler, author and wilderness adventurer Alan Kesselheim, paddlers now have Let Them Paddle, Kesselheim’s latest book on revisiting rivers with his three children that they unknowingly floated a decade and a half earlier as fetuses. RecreatingwithKids.com checks in with the author… … Read more →

Not like we want to encourage watching TV instead of getting outside, but now there’s good reason to do so. This spring, PBS Kids is partnering with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), America’s largest association of state and local parks and recreation facilities, to encourage families to “Explore the Outdoors.” From March 26 … Read more →

A few more kids might be getting wet than normal this paddling season, thanks to a new series of grants offered by Outdoor Nation. The group recently announced the winners of its Paddle Nation Project, aimed at connecting young Americans with their waterways through recreational paddling. The Outdoor Industry Association’s Paddle Advisory Council selected 13 … Read more →

Everyone knows that kids love sledding. They also love dogs. Combine the two, with a dose of clear, Colorado-blue skies, and you have the perfect family winter adventure. That’s what we found when we ventured out with Double T Kennels of Steamboat Springs, Colo., on a 10-mile dogsled trip in the Flat Tops national forest. … Read more →

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 →

(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 →

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 →

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 →

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