I was looking through old photos on the phone the other day and came some from trips completed with my young lad Callum - now a strapping teenager fast asleep upstairs (it's 1pm on a Saturday) and my daughter Danielle - about to move away to go to university in the New Year.
If anything, let this article encourage you to make the effort to take your children, or young ones in your life, out into the mountains or bush while you still can. They'll never forget it, and trust me, you will look back and be glad you've done it. So, hopefully, here are a few tips that might help you all to get the best out of the experience.
1. IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM
I acknowledge that hunting is my thing. But when I take them, it's all about them and their experience with Dad in the mountains or bush. My priority is to make their whole experience memorable so they will want to return. This means that hunting actually isn't the priority, they are. Callum's first trip was at the age of ten. On a hot summer's afternoon, we climbed