Comments on: Your Memories of Childhood Camping http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2008/12/10/your-memories-of-childhood-camping/ Day Hikes/Backpacking: Bay Area | Coast | Redwoods | Sierra Nevada | Desolation Wilderness | Lake Tahoe | Lassen Park | Mount Shasta | Trinity Alps | State Parks | National Parks | National Forests | Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ruth Chase http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/2008/12/10/your-memories-of-childhood-camping/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 Ruth Chase Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:34:05 +0000 http://northerncaliforniahikingtrails.com/blog/?p=184#comment-1782 I love to hike but on topic with your story. I remember hiking a simple hike in Yosemite. I stopped to take a rest and a drink of water. Up came an enthusiastic man who was probably newly married to the woman behind him who was dragging her young (about 10) daughter behind her who was complaining that she didn't want to hike anymore, she was tiered etc.... The woman belted out to her daughter "your going to hike and your going to like it!" I sat front row of this display and thought so many thoughts. First being that it was a sure thing that that girl was not going to "like" it and probably not like her new stepfather either for that matter. Children though naturals to the outdoors are not always into the hiking in the same "get it done" manor that we adults can be. A pic nic, magnifying glass, hikes with water features and shorter hikes may just be all they are up to? So far my 5 year old can only go so far, she would rather do art or play dolls using two sticks then hike "only" .-= Ruth Chase´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CampingInStyle/~3/n5Ed09FZmI4/note-to-readers.html" rel="nofollow">NOTE TO READERS</a> =-. I love to hike but on topic with your story. I remember hiking a simple hike in Yosemite. I stopped to take a rest and a drink of water. Up came an enthusiastic man who was probably newly married to the woman behind him who was dragging her young (about 10) daughter behind her who was complaining that she didn’t want to hike anymore, she was tiered etc…. The woman belted out to her daughter “your going to hike and your going to like it!”

I sat front row of this display and thought so many thoughts. First being that it was a sure thing that that girl was not going to “like” it and probably not like her new stepfather either for that matter.

Children though naturals to the outdoors are not always into the hiking in the same “get it done” manor that we adults can be. A pic nic, magnifying glass, hikes with water features and shorter hikes may just be all they are up to?

So far my 5 year old can only go so far, she would rather do art or play dolls using two sticks then hike “only”
.-= Ruth Chase´s last blog ..NOTE TO READERS =-.

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