Wendy Altschuler (right) went hiking with her husband and three sons along California's John Muir Trail.Wendy AltschulerWendy Altschuler brought her three sons on a 70-mile hike along California's John Muir Trail.Her oldest son put his first aid course to good use while helping his little brother.She wants to take advantage of the time she has while the kids are old enough to hike and she's young enough to join them.To be fair, if you were to ask my three teenagers right now if they liked schlepping all of their belongings on their back to hike so deep in the woods that they had zero connectivity on their cellphones, they would definitely say, "nope!"Backpacking is hard, really hard, especially if it wasn't your idea to go in the first place and your parents forced you to detox in nature against your will, far away from your friends and digital devices.On one particular seven-night backpacking trip, where we section hiked for about 70 miles in the high sierras on California's John Muir Trail — the magical land of 14,000-foot peaks, glacial lakes, and glittering slabs of granite — my boys, ages 11, 13, and 14, heard one of two things from nearly every hiker they met on the trail: "I wish my parents took me on a hike like this when I was your age," and, "I wish I took my kids on a backpacking trip when they were little."I have always loved backpacking with my kids, and hopefully, one day, I'll do it with my grandkids.
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