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I wanted to hike California's Lost Coast Trail with my 2 kids. How hard could it be?

LOS ANGELES — Planning a summer trip with kids can be challenging, especially when you’re not much of a planner. Last-minute airline prices are exorbitant. Tourist destinations are packed. Campgrounds are booked. And family visits are … family visits. So I thought I had a brilliant idea when I decided to re-create — as a family with two young children (Devash, 11, and Ettan, 8 at the time of ...
Devash logs on— wilderness style— during the August family camping trip.

LOS ANGELES — Planning a summer trip with kids can be challenging, especially when you’re not much of a planner.

Last-minute airline prices are exorbitant. Tourist destinations are packed. Campgrounds are booked. And family visits are … family visits.

So I thought I had a brilliant idea when I decided to re-create — as a family with two young children (Devash, 11, and Ettan, 8 at the time of our August hike) — a trip my wife Julie and I did more than 10 years ago when we’d hiked the Lost Coast region in Humboldt County.

The details were fuzzy, but we recalled the hardest part being the ultra-steep climb over the mountains back to our car. So we decided to just do the beach part, which is mostly flat, with our kids. We figured, how hard could it be?

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