Originally Posted By 4evrplan
I hope there will be many. So far however, there's nothing on the calendar. I have to balance my backpacking time with family time. Usually, if I have my older son with me, I also have my younger son. It's challenging to hike with them; it would be much more challenging to take them backpacking, especially my younger son. Because of his autism, he's still in diapers, and going any further than a few hundred feet (maybe a mile on a good day) I have to carry him. There's just no way I can carry both him and all the gear for three people, including diapers, for an overnight trip even if the ten year old helps out.


Glad you finally made it out!

Not sure how big your younger son is, but I think this blog could offer encouragement on how to make it out in the wild with a "wheelchair". He's taken his daughter (and the younger one also) on many adventures all over the US. They don't camp overnight much because she has seizures, but they could.