Soon the summer school holidays. Decide where to send your child? Perhaps the cottage or at sea. And maybe a hike? In hiking any teenager will really love and try to preserve the natural environment, get to know new places and history of their country, because it is often hiking routes carry the most fascinating in the historical and geographical margins. Complexity and joy of hikes will teach children to overcome own immediate desires, to seek a way out of unfamiliar situations. From going any kid will come back a little bit grown up, more developed physically, with the immune system got stronger, and even a little pomudrevshim. Right thing go backpacking with a familiar group of, say, from the district child Tourist Club. In such a tourist club kids before the big hikes first few weeks or even months, are engaged theoretical training, they go together in a hiking weekend in order to improve skills and how to get used to each other.