Hollyburn: I want to go home

Trip Date: Feb. 20th-21st, 2022

by Line

This was our first overnight winter camping with our 2 year old. It was not particularly successful. In our rush to pack and get everyone ready, we had forgotten to get sell the trip to the kids, or maybe be had made some poor attempt. Regardless, the kids did not buy-in, so the complaints about being too tired (or having sore legs or ...) started right off the bat. Next we made the mistake of letting the kids choose the route, which ended up putting us in some less than ideal terrain. There ended up being an endless amount of complaining and a fair amount of crying too. So as soon as we got to a flat spot, open enough for a tent, we set up camp. 

Lots of weight to get up the hill

Christian escaped the misery to go skiing to Hollyburn, and slowly the mood improved in camp. Although we might have completely scared Noriko of family trips. 
It was a cold evening so we got in the tent as quickly as we could for lots of story time. In the morning the weather was gorgeous, so Noriko and I went for a ski before packing up. The kids played in the snow and had snow ball fights with dad, and actually had a good time. We skied out to the cross country area to avoid the difficult forest skiing with N, but even the traverse to the resort was challenging with three kids and all our stuff, so there was a couple more tears. Luckily after hitting the resort everything was smooth sailing.