Archive for the ‘Adventure Buddies’ Category
Experience is Overrated
Sunday, I took Kaitlin up American Fork canyon for our first hike this year. We hiked the Pine Hollow Trail to the junction of the Salamander Flat Trail and back. Besides the fact that she did the 3 mile round trip and 750 elevation gain hike (25% which was on snow) all by herself (making me very excited for the increase in distance we can cover this year on our Adventure Buddy trips), I learned an important lesson, and it’s something that applies 110% to entrepreneurship.
On the way down the trail, there was a little bush that had very noticeable water droplets on the leafs, left there by the skiff of a thunderstorm that came through while we were hiking. So
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Double Dip
It’s been over a year since I’ve posted about Adventure Buddies. I’ve done a few trips with the kids since then, but not a big one.
This weekend, I planned another trip to the High Unitas. I’ve been so busy this year, and my window to get the kids out on a backpacking trip was quickly closing. Kailtin is 4 1/2. Alex is just over 2. And I had a dilemma. K desperately wanted to go on another backpacking trip, but only with Dad. And I really wanted to take Alex on his first backpacking jaunt. And either way, I was pretty sure that even with my mountain goat tendencies, I would be pushing it to try to haul enough gear for
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Adventure Buddies: Backpacking with a 3 year old
Three weeks ago I launched out on an Adventure Buddies trip with my daughter Kaitlin. I took her backpacking for the first time and she absolutely loved it. We drove up the Mirror Lake Highway into the High Unitas about 90 minutes from where we live and we backpacked 1 mile into Wall Lake.
Did I learn anything from her on this trip? You bet. The mosquitoes were bad on this trip. As bad as I’ve ever seen. We had only hiked 1 mile. If I were alone, I would have bailed. But she wanted to have the ’sleep over’ part of the trip so bad. So we stayed by the lake in the sun and with our repellent and a slight breeze we
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Back in the Saddle
Are you okay? How’s everything going? Where in the world have you been? Is everything okay? How come you’re not blogging anymore? I miss reading your blog, when will you be back?
While these are the sorts of questions I had hoped to receive as a result of taking two weeks off from blogging, clearly, I’m not popular enough yet to warrant that sort of attention. Oh well, fortunately I know my place in the world, and making it in the big-time world of blogging was never my intention. Being a great husband, father, boss, co-worker, and member of my community have always rated higher, and these past couple of weeks are proof of where my energies are best directed.
A weeklong break
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Adventure Buddies, Part II
With this weekend being a long one and with my wife headed down to southern Utah to visit her side of the family, our daughter Kaitlin and I are headed north to Jackson, Wyoming, for what’s sure to another epic version of Adventure Buddies. The plan for this trip is to camp out tonight in the Bridger Teton National Forest, and then head up to Jackson tomorrow morning where we’ll find a hotel to store our non-essentials and perhaps take a quick shower and bath, and then take off to explore the Grand Teton National Park, followed by a trip on Sunday up to Yellowstone National Park to show Kaitlin the buffalo (she’s been talking about “the buffaloâ€? for over a week
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Adventure Buddies
One of the greatest experiences and joys in my life is being a dad. My wife Amy and I have one daughter, Kaitlin, and are expecting a son this June. One of my really good friends, Chris Knudsen, told me once about something he did with his kids prior to me having any of my own. Rather than just sit at home and play with toys or hang out in the backyard together, Chris would take his kids out on mini-adventures. He called it Adventure Buddies, and I liked the idea so much that when Kaitlin came along, we started going on Adventure Buddy excursions of our own.
By design, we’d leave Mom behind, and head off on our own. When she
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