How To Start Hiking With Your Baby

How to Hike With Your Baby:

I love hiking with my baby. I love being outside, I love being with friends and I really, really love knowing my daughter is growing up with an appreciation for the outdoors.

Hiking with a baby isn’t always easy. It takes a lot of planning and foresight to get it right. Once you get it right, everything falls into place.

Over the last 7 months, since we took Ella on her first hike at 6 weeks, I’ve really started to dial in what works and what doesn’t.

9 Tips to make hiking with your baby fun!

If you follow these simple tips you and your baby will have a great time next time you hit the trails!

1. If possible purchase a baby hiking backpack

I personally began with the Ergobaby 360 baby carrier and then moved on to the Osprey Poco Child Carrier as Ella got older.

When Ella was small hiking with the Ergo baby carrier was awesome. It is super comfortable and was easy to adjust the sizing between myself and my husband (I’m 5.1 & he is 6.1 so this is a big issue for us). For a small baby, I recommend the Ergo Baby carrier for hiking.