Indoctrinating my children.

[4Runner]

Don’t know how you guys managed to get them out so young. Took our (usually well behaved) 9 month old to the mountains for a few days and couldn’t get in a moderate hike without some serious crying halfway through. Great learning experience anyway and will get him out on trails soon enough, though I’m not sure a camping trip is in the cards for quite a while

It’s always a crap shoot. I got one of those back packs that you put your kiddo in. Other than some motion sickness on the little ones part, which made my neck really warm. I loved it when they were under their own power and found everything fascinating but I never came close to ever finishing a hike. Fast forward and now one kid still likes hiking and the other one would rather do a lot of other things instead, most anything else really. lol.

 

[MM3846]

Yup

Don’t know how you guys managed to get them out so young. Took our (usually well behaved) 9 month old to the mountains for a few days and couldn’t get in a moderate hike without some serious crying halfway through. Great learning experience anyway and will get him out on trails soon enough, though I’m not sure a camping trip is in the cards for quite a while

Try again tomorrow, it may be different lol.

I would have to drag my son inside no matter the weather, now it’s a fight to get him outside.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

I used to strap the kid to me at a little over two yrs old (he was over two here, don't have any pics from then) and go to the pits on the Foreman.



That lead to this.



And that lead to...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1665526295034462209

 

[Blue]

 

[luckyjoe]

Our sons were raised with a healthy dose of outdoor living and LR’s. This was an early MAR at Pearl’s Pond.

 

[TexasD90]

Been bouncing mine around dirt roads in old rovers their whole lives! Love seeing others doing the same. The first picture was a 2 week, 2500 mile camping trip in a D-90 soft top! Great memories.

 

[TexasD90]

Yup

Try again tomorrow, it may be different lol.

I would have to drag my son inside no matter the weather, now it’s a fight to get him outside.

I can’t count the number of cryfests we had when they were little. We just kept taking them out and pushing them to do more. Now at 13 and 15 they’ve done overnights and backpack trips without me. It’s a struggle at first, but if you embrace it and keep after it, it seams to pay off.