Authors of the popular Adventure Tykes blog, the Edges live in Moab, Utah, with their two and a half year old son Jackson. Already Jackson has been to 10 national parks, road-tripped for three weeks around the Pacific Northwest, summited his first 14er, and gotten a feel for Utah slickrock. Dirtbag in the making? Maybe. If his parents have their way.
Read on to learn a little more about Bret and Melissa.
What is your core sport(s)?
Bret: Hiking
Melissa: Running, hiking, road tripping
Jackson: Climbing, rock throwing, bike riding
What other sports do you participate in or sort of fun do you enjoy?
Bret: Canyoneering, backpacking, mountain biking, climbing, adventure motorcycling
Melissa: climbing, backpacking, shopping, picnicking, shopping, mtn biking and shopping
Jackson: Anything that doesn't require sitting still. (Chasing my dogs, jumping off things, running everywhere.)
When/what was your first memorable "outdoor" experience?
Bret: I wasn't really exposed to outdoor recreation until after high school. My first real outdoor experience was a backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. My buddy and I spent 3 days and 2 nights in the Canyon, we got lost and ran out of water, became dehydrated and started hallucinating when we found a pool of filthy water in a small side canyon. That water saved us, and even though the trip wasn't exactly "fun" the whole time, I was forever hooked on hiking and backpacking.
Melissa: I started playing in the outdoors, camping and fishing when I was a wee one. I remember fishing with my brothers somewhere in the mountains around the age of 7 and falling in a shallow creek while scoping out the beaver dam.
Jackson: I spent two weeks in Glacier National Park, riding on mom's back for 50+ miles of hiking, seeing mountain goats, big horn sheep and ground squirrels on the trail and staying 2 nights at the Granite Park Chalet we had to hike to.
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