10 essential outdoor skills to teach your kids

August 2013

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Crossing the Otehake River. Photo: Mark Brabyn
Learning a few bush skills will add to your children’s enjoyment of tramping as well as giving them confidence, writes Margaret Carpenter Using bush skills is all part of the ‘tramping game’ for kids; it’s something they want to take an active role in. So teach them how to do the fun stuff safely and […]
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