Author: Parents & Kids Staff

If you do decide to bring along your four-legged hike buddy, let him carry his own stuff! A light-capacity pack featuring a saddlebag-style design has four expandable pockets for food, toys and other necessities. It comes with a D-ring for leash attachment and is available in three sizes. $12.79 – $17.79 depending on the size |...

  Admit it: when you go on a hike, or for a long run, the last thing you want to do is carry gallons of water in your backpack. Now you don’t have to! This 14 oz water bottle filtering system keeps its owner hydrated by re-filing it with lake water, the creek or even a mud puddle (we haven’t tried the mud puddle water ourselves, but it sounds convincing). It filters up to 2000 liters of water, kills 99.9% of all known bacteria and viruses, has failsafe technology (it stops working when filter replacement is needed). A great...