Tim Hauserman

A friendly, reassuring book that makes it seem reasonable and easy to take your babies and children backpacking. The three weaknesses - it assumes that the parent is already experienced at backpacking; it doesn't really address the possibility of camping as a way to ease into backpacking; and, the most annoying from my perspective, the book is heavily focused on the author's experiences in the Sierras. The unfortunate result of that is that much of the advice and scenarios are not easily transferable to other regions, where bears and mountains are less the issue. For families far from the richness of California backpacking opportunities, a weekend jaunt is going to look much different.… (meer)