When planning a camping trip or a backpacking trip it is fun and useful to create a logbook. Using a medium notebook with wire-bound pages or even a loose-leaf notebook, you will be able to record your trip in style. Start off by collecting maps of the area you plan on visiting. Then if necessary cut the maps to fit the pages and mount them on the notebook pages leaving room to write down interesting trail facts, like trail markers or wildlife seen, camping and picnic areas, or other facts you don't want to forget.
Be sure to take along pens and a pencils and orange or yellow, or light red felt markers for mapping out your route and jotting down tiles of different items you want to remember. Allow as many pages as you think you might need and leave space to add pictures of your trip. This idea is great for adults, as well as, children.
How To Make Your Logbook
1. Design and letter a cover for your personal logbook.
2. For ease of reference index corners of your trip that are all on the same subject and mark so they can be identified.
3. Use rubber cement to glue sections of the maps on the center of each sheet of paper.
4. Add sectional inserts for different parks or trails you wish to investigate.
5. Be sure to mark your planned trip and also any changes you make on the trail, as a guide for the next trip or for return trip.
6. Take lots of pictures and print out a few for your journal.
Be sure to take along pens and a pencils and orange or yellow, or light red felt markers for mapping out your route and jotting down tiles of different items you want to remember. Allow as many pages as you think you might need and leave space to add pictures of your trip. This idea is great for adults, as well as, children.
How To Make Your Logbook
1. Design and letter a cover for your personal logbook.
2. For ease of reference index corners of your trip that are all on the same subject and mark so they can be identified.
3. Use rubber cement to glue sections of the maps on the center of each sheet of paper.
4. Add sectional inserts for different parks or trails you wish to investigate.
5. Be sure to mark your planned trip and also any changes you make on the trail, as a guide for the next trip or for return trip.
6. Take lots of pictures and print out a few for your journal.