New Year. New Goals. We had a lot to consider when evaluating what outdoor goals to make for the family. The biggest factor being that we will be welcoming #6 to the crew at the end of April. I am just two weeks away from entering my third trimester, and can already tell that hiking is beginning to become more challenging for my body. I am no longer able to carry a passenger on my back, and long distances are increasingly more difficult for me to handle. So we will lose a lot of prime hiking months for our family, during these next 12 weeks. Of course, we won't stop hiking, we just have to adjust our difficulty level and distance. So as we decided on a goal we wanted to account for the changes affecting our family life and dynamic.
So what are our 2017 goals...
- Visit 5 new to us National or State Parks
- Take oldest two kids on their first overnight backpacking trips
- Hike 300 collective miles as a family.
- Hike the following trails together as a family:
(To clarify on the 300 collective miles, we will count individual miles that are logged even if we are not hiking all together. So if Dad takes three big kids on a hiking trip, while mom recovers with a new baby, those miles count. This also means that only actual walkers will count in the mileage total. So if the child is being carried, their miles will not count even though they are hiking with the family.)
We are excited to see what adventures 2017 holds for us and are anxious to continue to explore the beautiful outdoors! Happy Trails!!
