Our walks, excursions, hikes and vacations are somewhat typical of those made by any family with children, younger or in their teens. For example, up to the age of 10, the little one focuses mainly on more easily accessible tourist attractions, by car or even on foot. After that age, we started to approach more and more often the trips in the heart of nature, more and more difficult and longer in terms of time spent.

Of course, not at all dangerous hikes, not pretending to be climbers or dangerous places, we usually chose routes that any other family with children can walk, even if they are on mountain trails. We are not performance athletes, not even ordinary people, not even in our early youth, who work most of the time in an office and who usually choose a fairly healthy muscle fever after such walks. But how much we like it…

And as time went on, our little girl started to do much better on the mountain. If when he was little he let himself down with tears from fatigue and maybe laziness, now we ask him to wait for us, not to take her like that to the healthy… Probably in the next period he will prefer to go to the mountains with friends his age , more sprinting, faster, more resistant on long laps. But I am happy and I hope that from an early age I instilled in him a passion for the mountains, for nature, for unforgettable hikes in places with beautiful landscapes. At least, the example was given, otherwise everything will depend on him.

Exercise in nature, especially in the mountains, is pure health. But also brain relaxation, as they say.

And if we still walked in a lot of holidays in the Alps and the Dolomites, I thought I would give you ideas for such hikes, easy or medium level of difficulty, which you can do as a family, together of children.

Meersburg, seen from Lake Bodensee

When our child was young, we used to drive on the spectacular alpine roads, to the castles or through the cities with beautiful medieval centers. As I said above, recently we had the opportunity more and more often to make beautiful hikes through those high mountains, with fantastic landscapes. Some better known for Romanian tourists, others maybe less.

Of course, it is more difficult and not at all recommended for most of us routes that involve via ferrata or with dangerous passages, chains, ropes or abseiling, where climbing skills are required, so we focused on the most sure, D, in which you put enough physical effort but in which you admire more the greatness of nature. Through which we walked with our mouths open to the beautiful alpine landscapes that rose before our eyes.

Well, it's a way of saying, eyes always where you put your feet on the mountain! And the gaping mouth in the landscape just standing still!

Safety on the mountain is relative, because you will always have to pay attention to where you put your feet, parents, but especially to what they do and where the little ones go. Because they are not afraid at an early age, they do not really notice the danger, so you will have to do it for them.

I recommend that you always have the right equipment on the mountain, from good shoes to a raincoat, plus water and some food for the little ones. Also, always check the weather before a mountain trail. For example, we are not the kind of mountain walk for any purpose, in the sense that we would never venture on a path if we knew it would rain. Because we don't really enjoy nature and landscapes. We also caught the rain on the mountain, of course, but we never went on the road when it was already raining.