Family Skiing Mistakes to Avoid

Yesterday I took my family of five skiing and it was a disaster. We’re a skiing family – my 10 year old can ski difficult black runs and even my four-year-old knows the ski basics. But this first ski adventure of the season brought all of us to tears. These are our top family skiing mistakes to avoid. Save yourself the hassle and learn from our mistakes.

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How Mountain Bike Parks are Built

How mountain bike parks are built is something I hadn’t thought much about until this month. In July 2019 my family was invited to ride the new mountain bike park at Kelly Canyon Ski Resort in Idaho. We had so much fun!

How to Build a Bike Park
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How to Teach a Kid to Mountain Bike

My youngest is finally old enough to ride! If you want to know how to teach a kid to mountain bike look no further. We’ll break it down by age for you.

Teach Your Child to Mountain Bike

Psst…This post contains affiliate links to the kids bike brands my family uses and loves. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Also, Grand Targhee Ski Resort and Bike Park hosted us for a few days so we could teach our kids to mountain bike there.

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Learn a New Survival Skill – October 2018 Outdoor Challenge

Learn a New Survival Skill in this October 2018 FREE monthly outdoor challenge!

Reading this after October 2018? You can still sign up for the current monthly outdoor challenge in this post – or visit mountainmomandtots.com/challenge

Learn A New Survival Skill

I firmly believe that feeling confident exploring outdoors requires three things – community, gear and information. Knowing how to make exploring outdoors more comfortable by having the right information makes a world of difference.

So when my Monthly Outdoor Challenge patrons chose Learn a New Survival Skill for the October 2018 monthly challenge I thought, “YES!”

This will be fun AND informational.

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