Hiking

In early 2007 a couple of us joined our friend Hoosierdaddy who teaches winter courses for The Mountaineers, for one of it's branches here in the NW.  We all had a day off, so he offered to help us brush up on self arrest skills and using an ice ax properly.

By Susan Alcorn

My son, Ford was born premature. He was a skinny, tiny baby with a lot of spirit. By the time he was walking I knew he wasn't ever going to fit into a "normal" category. And that was just fine with me. He became my hiking partner early on, going where I went, from a backpack to a jogger stroller to walking alongside me. Hiking was something he has always been good at, it was never hard for him.