Backpacking With a 1 Year Old: Every Single Thing We Pack (plus Complete Guide)

Backcountry camping with a 1-year-old sounds insane. It isn't — it just takes a different packing list. In this video we lay out every single piece of gear we carry into the backcountry with Stella, why we chose it, and the systems that actually make overnight trips with a baby work. Shelter, sleep, food, first aid, diapers, clothing, and how it all fits into two packs — spread out on the floor so you can see exactly what comes with us. We're Petra and Jan. We hike, camp and road trip across British Columbia with our daughter, and this is the video we wish existed before our first backcountry night with her. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Why we take our baby into the backcountry 0:30 Shelter and sleep setup 1:07 Stella's sleeping bag — Morrison Outdoors 1:38 Food 3:45 Cooking, tools and safety gear 4:22 Toiletries, sun and skin care 5:13 Diaper bag and Stella's sleep essentials 5:57 Our clothing — warm layers and shells 6:44 Stella's clothing 8:18 How we pack it: backpack + carrier ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛺ BABY SLEEP SYSTEM — MORRISON OUTDOORS (1:07) The single biggest question we get is "but how does she SLEEP out there?" The answer is the Little Mo baby sleeping bag from Morrison Outdoors. We own both versions and use them for different trips: ▸ Little Mo 20° (down) — 650-fill RDS-certified down, around 9 oz, packs to roughly the size of a water bottle. This is our backpacking bag. When every gram counts and the nights drop toward freezing, this is what goes in the pack. ▸ Little Mo 40° (synthetic) — lofty synthetic fill that keeps working even when it gets damp. This is our summer and shoulder-season bag, and the one we reach for on wetter BC nights and car camping trips. Both have no hood and no drawstrings, a snug collar so she can't slip down inside, an enclosed footbox, and adjustable open-and-close cuffs so she can have hands in or out. Designed around AAP guidelines for safe infant sleep — which is the part that let us actually relax in the tent. 👉 Shop Morrison Outdoors: https://loox.io/z/wGivedViy Use code WANDERIN10 for 10% off ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 FREE GUIDE — HOW TO STAY WILD WITH A BABY Our 36-page guide to hiking and camping with a baby: gear checklists, trail picks, and the stuff nobody warns you about. Free here 👉 https://wanderingwise.blog/baby-hikin... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 FOLLOW ALONG Instagram:   / wanderin.together   Blog: https://wanderingwise.blog Business enquiries: wanderin.together@gmail.com 🔗 Everything in one place: https://beacons.ai/wanderin.together ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Tell us in the comments: what's the one thing stopping you from taking your kid overnight? We answer every single one. If this helped, a like and a subscribe genuinely makes a difference to a small family channel like ours. 🤍 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Always follow safe sleep guidance for your child's age and weight, check the manufacturer's sizing before use, and make your own call on conditions and terrain. What works for our family may not work for yours. 📣 This video is sponsored by Morrison Outdoors. We genuinely use both Little Mo bags on our own trips and would recommend them regardless. Some links above are affiliate links. #campingwithbaby #backcountrycamping #backpackingwithkids #morrisonoutdoors #littlemo #outdoorfamily #hikingwithbaby #familyadventure #britishcolumbia #babygear #campinggear #adventurefamily