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Family Van Life Budget: The cost of living 3 months on the road!

It feels like only yesterday we were living the dream life traveling around in Dusty our 1993 VW Eurovan. The trip that ended in December brought our family closer together as we explored 3 provinces and 6 States over 3 months. As promised in the blog post “Finding Money for a Family Van Life Trip”, …

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Skiing with Kids : Hitting the slopes with a 1 year old

My name is Lila Berg and I am a proud wife to Ryan, mother to Mavis and teacher to many! I love my job as an educator and my new role as “mom” the absolute most. Spending time together with our little family brings me a lot of joy and teaching our daughter to love…

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Tips for Hiking with Toddlers: Packing YOUR Toddler’s Backpack

One of  the best tips of advice I had from other outdoor families was to make my kids carry their own backpack as soon as they started hiking on their own.  I love this idea since it has given my young kids  ownership over the hiking experience and lightens my load. Sometimes I get asked…

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Avalanche Safety: Avoid these 6 Mistakes

I posted  an epic picture of my family completing a hike on Twitter with the caption “Shorts in the snow… That is Alberta Spring Hiking”. I then tagged the Banff National Park @banffNP  in the photo.  Following posting the photo a series of feelings of embarrassment, stupidity and worry crept up after  hearing their response…

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Protect your Head while Bicycling: 7 steps to properly fit a helmet

Are you and your children wearing the right size of bicycle helmet? Are you wearing the helmet properly? Choosing a helmet that is not the right size or not fitted poses a risk to the child or adult wearing the helmet. Brain injury is more likely to happen when you either don’t wear a helmet…

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Tips for Reducing your Waste to a Single Jar

Reducing your waste to a single jar for a month can seem impossible. It is not BUT does take some planning… especially if you want to jump right in. Check out the post “Green UP Challenge: Reducing our waste to a single jar” for examples of household waste that needs to be eliminated.   It is…

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7 Tips for Hiking in the Winter with a Toddler

Going winter hiking with toddlers can feel impossible. The deep snow can be hard to walk on and the cold weather can make it seem scary to take your little ones out too far. Don’t let that stop you! The winter weather brings on a gorgeous winter wonderland and the fresh air will help kick…

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Green UP Challenge: Reducing our waste to a single jar

Choosing to Green UP our life and reducing our  waste to a single jar for the month of March was one thing. Actually following through would take some thoughtful preparation and planning. To become waste free the first thing our family needed to do was to look at the waste that we were producing EVERY…

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Teaching a Toddler to Snowboard : Getting Started

I often hear people say that it is better to teach your kid to ski before letting them snowboard. They talk about how skiing is more natural than snowboarding because you face forward. In reality my two daughters learnt to do the perfect squat that is essential for snowboarding at a young age. Before I…

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5 tips to buying a toddler snowboard

I have been waiting for the day I would get to see my girls’ snowboard. Recently we took our oldest daughter who is 3 on her first snowboarding adventure.   You can read about that adventure  here. Our oldest was lucky to be gifted a toddler snowboard for her 3rd birthday this summer. Since then, she…

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Annika Mang is the Founder and writer at BorntobeAdventurous.com . She is a mother of two adventurous toddlers. With a Bachelor degrees in Physical Education and Education, it is her mission to show families just how easy, fun and healthy it is to spend time outdoors. You can usually find her and her family in the Canadian Rockies where they love to camp, hike and snowboard.

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