I love hiking with my kids and one of the things i have learned over the years is to have my kids be more involved with thr plan so they know whats going on. Having kids learn distances and what thet actually means on the ground can make their hiking experience so much better #Outdoors #adventure #roadtrip #roadtrip #travel #traveltiktok #adventuretime #traveling #mountains #Hiking #hikingadventures #hikingszn #hikersoftiktok #hike #colorado

Could you imagine somebody picking you up, putting you in a car, driving you out of the mountains, forcing you out on a hike, telling you not how far you're going, how long it's going to be, how much elevation gain, what you're going to see, and every time you ask you say you're almost there, you're almost there, it's just a little bit further. But that's what we do with kids when we hike. So my biggest tip with hiking with kids is getting them involved in the planning, the mapping, and having an understanding of your distance, your time, and also your elevation gain. They might not fully understand all of the details of it initially, but over time they will start to learn. And instead of saying you're almost there or it's right up there, you can look at your map and say it's a quarter mile up or it's a thousand feet. That'll really help get rid of some of their frustrations of not knowing what's going on. And with my kids, some of the hikes where they just did not have the best time were hikes where we mapped it out incorrectly. We had the incorrect distance. It was two or three miles longer than we thought it was going to be. So as we were making the adjustments on the hike, we could tell them, hey, it looks like it's actually going to be longer, or my watch GPS said this, and they have a general understanding how much longer it's going to be, how much more time it's going to be. And it's going to make their hike a lot more enjoyable.