Backpacking with Babies and Small Children: A Guide to Taking the Kids Along on Day Hikes, Overnighters, and Long Trail Trips

by Goldie Silverman

Book Overview

Backpacking With Babies and Small Children is an Authors Guild Back in Print Edition which initially remained in print for almost twenty years. In addition to standard backpacking advice, this book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899970680
• ISBN13: 9780899970684
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

fairly informative

i am reviewing the 1986 edition, not the revised 1998 edition. i would really give this book 3.5 or 3.75 stars if i could. yes, other reviewers are correct, it does cover very basic ideas, but it is not only geared toward beginning hikers & backpackers. my husband and i are expecting our first child in June 2002, and we don't want to abandon our love of backpacking together in the wilderness. this book has some encouraging ideas for crafting your own equipment, evaluating what you really need, and re-visiting your "single" hiking strategies; re-thinking them as "parent" strategies. it's much more useful than Robin Tawney's FalconGuide book "Hiking with Kids," which doesn't even address backpacking (except to call backpackers crazy who take babies & toddlers along). it's not the definitive guide, but it is oriented in the right direction. ultimately, i'm glad i bought it.

Everything I needed to know!

This is a very helpful book, full of good information. I found it very reassuring. It is a challenge to even think about taking a very young child into the mountains. We had all our questions answered and felt like we could have a happy, comfortable and SAFE trip. It was successful... We had info about food, safety, equipment, etc... many things that we didn't even think of. Good Book.

A must-read for anybody taking kids into the woods

My mother wrote this book. My children appear in it.Obviously, it is a terrific book. In particular, the advice on being willing to turn back if the weather turns bad is well taken.