Sheryll
09-08-2010, 14:31
Well, we finally did it! My husband, 16 year old son and I went on our first overnight backpacking trip and we loved it! We greatly underestimated ourselves though. did not get nearly as far as we wanted to, but still had fun. learned a LOT. (like what we can live without and need to leave at home):)
we were going to do 2 days, but ended up only doing one. we have muscles hurting that we didn't know we had!!:eek:
I have a couple of questions that I would like to throw out to you guys.
1). water situation. we ran out of water. our map showed that water should be at certain places, but we never came across it. how far off the trail would it be? (we hiked standing indian) our map shows it near the shelter, and then also down one of the other trails (forgot the name) but we never found it, till we hiked nearly back to the standing indian campsite.
2). my son only wears skateboard shoes. they have no support, I had bought him some hiking boots and he said they hurt his feet badly, so this weekend he hiked in his skate shoes and his feet hurt, but not as bad as in the hiking boots. I told him I would look into some "trail runners" since they are low-tops and seem to be more like tennis shoes.
Anybody have issues like this? got any ideas for hiking shoes for him? (I have RA, and fallen arches in my feet and have to wear hiking boots ALL the time, so he could have inherited some issues from me)
I think all 3 of us are addicted to backpacking now, even though I hobble and limp along slower than molasses, I loved it! (my son called me "Ms. Limps-a-long" all summer):D
I have gotten a lot of advice from you guys for the last year, and want to say thanks. it helped a lot!
we were going to do 2 days, but ended up only doing one. we have muscles hurting that we didn't know we had!!:eek:
I have a couple of questions that I would like to throw out to you guys.
1). water situation. we ran out of water. our map showed that water should be at certain places, but we never came across it. how far off the trail would it be? (we hiked standing indian) our map shows it near the shelter, and then also down one of the other trails (forgot the name) but we never found it, till we hiked nearly back to the standing indian campsite.
2). my son only wears skateboard shoes. they have no support, I had bought him some hiking boots and he said they hurt his feet badly, so this weekend he hiked in his skate shoes and his feet hurt, but not as bad as in the hiking boots. I told him I would look into some "trail runners" since they are low-tops and seem to be more like tennis shoes.
Anybody have issues like this? got any ideas for hiking shoes for him? (I have RA, and fallen arches in my feet and have to wear hiking boots ALL the time, so he could have inherited some issues from me)
I think all 3 of us are addicted to backpacking now, even though I hobble and limp along slower than molasses, I loved it! (my son called me "Ms. Limps-a-long" all summer):D
I have gotten a lot of advice from you guys for the last year, and want to say thanks. it helped a lot!