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Originally Posted by COGENT
Did you tent in the mountains at all? I'm mostly worried about the temperature.
And if we're on the dad to dad advice topic, what did you do about the kid and a fire being present?
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Temperature was fine, I invested a car payment worth in high quality synthetic sleeping bags for the kids (not down, kids spill & leak). Most nights the kids say they are over-warm if anything. We camp June-September, mostly in and around Banff or Kananaskis, and nobobdy has ever complained about being cold, nor did the baby wake up obviously in distress from coldness. Kids have higher metabolisms than adults; I think they run warmer at night than we do regardless.
The fire has never been an issue - when the kids were crawling, they were too slow and immobile to get near it, and when they were toddlers, we kept a close eye, but honestly never had a moment's panic. If your toddlers understand "hot" at home, I think you're basically OK. Consider that the average fire pit is close to waist level for young kids, with flames shooting out of it - they tend to stay away, and it would take some engineering for them to manage to fall in. Some may disagree (and I respect that different parents have different acceptable risk thresholds), but honestly, have you _ever_ seen a kid fall into a fire at a campsite? I've never heard of it, and I'm sure that kind of thing would make the news.
