I do almost all of my hiking solo since my friends growing up are all moved away. I like to do day trips with just about any friend I can talk into it, but pretty much the only one that I will take or will go with me on an overnight trip is myself and my daughter. She is an excellent hiking budy. Haven't done anything overnight in winter with her yet. When I take her with me it is always to places I have already been. I have a few risky solo adventures behind me and ahead of me still, but its all relative. I would like to solo kayak to Isle Haute on the Bay of Fundy some day, straight across from New Brunswick rather than from the Nova Scotia side. I don't know why. I've never been there.

Not my video but here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtgL7AUW2o