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If you are a hiker or a camper moving to Breckenridge real estate or are thinking of buying a second home in Summit County, this is the perfect place to develop lifetime healthy habits for your baby and young children.  We invite you to pursue pristine paths through the forests with a backpack on your back and a baby pack on your chest.

If you think that adding a family will dampen your outdoor hobbies, we’ve got news for you.  Children, even babies, delight in the Rocky Mountain outback.  With some careful planning before leaving the cozy confines of civilization and your Breckenridge CO home, you will find that children enhance your experiences in nature.

Few families enjoy the trek without first brainstorming solutions to common obstacles and difficulties, however.  Once you think through and plan solutions, you’ll be surprised at the profound results.  First of all, condition yourself physically.  Try to start before pregnancy or during early pregnancy and at least when baby is still very young.  Then build up to packing your toddler down the trail and/or up the mountain.  Don’t be afraid to invite family and friends to come along and carry some of the extras that will make your journey a success, i.e. your child’s favorite stuffed animal or bedtime story.

If you are used to camping at a campground, you’ll have to think about substitutes for picnic tables, fire pits, outhouses, and drinking water.  You will need to carry everything, including water filters, trail mix, jerky, instant meals, a lightweight stove, and more.  If you are nursing, you will definitely need to plan on drinking more water than you ever have before!   But, even if you are not, you’ll find it more convenient to hike near streams and water sources.

It is important to use the right gear.  One baby backpack may work in your city neighborhood but may not be the right equipment for a trek outback.  Besides picking up all food scraps as you move along, you’ll need to pack your in bear-proof containers.  Buy some cloth diapers that can be washed out and hung in the sun, provided you are willing to bury the waste 200 feet from any water source.  That beats carting around Wagbags to carry out human waste, but some places require them for adults and children.

If you are used to covering lots of territory, be content with going half as far as you would without a little one in tow.  Adopt the mindset that you will savor every moment out on the trail.  Your positive attitude will be the effervescence that makes you laugh when the muscles are aching, when a downpour lets loose, or if you lay down to discover an uncomfortable root right under your hip.  If you are going to get dirty—and you will—just enjoy it!  A nice hot soak back at home will clean you inside out and warm you up and down.

If you hike and camp regularly, your children are likely to remember these highlights of their childhood and adopt your healthy lifestyle as their own.  They sleep like logs out in the wilderness and delight in the smallest little rock or leaf, bringing perspective to this life.

Ask Rick Allemang at (970) 547-1002 for recommendations about trails and camping as well as real estate that will serve your family’s needs.