Now thought would post this for whatever it might be worth. This winter have been going thru all my old hiking and trips journals which date back to 1978 and the first year I hiked here in the western wilderness of the country. That first year I spent 3 months going all over Colorado and places in Utah and have been going ever since. Since that first summer kept an in depth journal on my hikes and recorded it seems everything, with including photos. Now this winter have been going thru the old journals with scanning them all and transcribing them. It is Absolutely Wonderful! Do have over 60 trip journal books plus from years gone by. Right now on the year 1985. Here am reading and going thru old hikes in the wilds and reliving old days in the wilderness long gone past. And how many things thru time would forget about it, it would seem. Like in 1984, had a small plane flight one day over Yellowstone Park and the Absarokas with members of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition which I had totally forgotton about till the journal jogged my memory. In the spring of 1985, did a 10 day hike across Zion NP, from the Kolob to Springdale which was fabulous or in the 80s going down the coastline in Olympic NP, or just being in the Escalante in Utah. In 1982 was the first year back into the Yellowstone's Thorofare and the Absarokas, with how many times since then. Am 69 now and Great Reading and going thru all these old trip journals. Some years kept track of everything that happened in one day and pages and pages devoted to a single day. Like kept track: how many miles I had hiked, what birds I had seen, what animals I had seen, what flowers I had come across, the weather that day, all the goings on for that day, the trail route itself, diagrams and drawing, and everything. It is Soooo Wonderful!
So I thought would post this on the importance of keeping a trip journal on your hikes. As time goes by you will not remember it all. And then comes the importance of that journal on that hike you did long ago. And you will become so grateful that you kept that journal. You are the author and you can keep track of whatever you desire.You will Not remember it All. So when you get older, those journals along with your photos to you will become more precious then gold it will seem. This is the way with myself. I can now look back on these hikes years ago and relive them. Just wish I was young again to do it all over again like I once did, for there is still still still so much out there remaining. There is still so much wilderness still out there where one could get 'Lost' on purpose in the Deep Wilds.
Just a tip which I thought of posting. Wishing Everyone The Best!
So I thought would post this on the importance of keeping a trip journal on your hikes. As time goes by you will not remember it all. And then comes the importance of that journal on that hike you did long ago. And you will become so grateful that you kept that journal. You are the author and you can keep track of whatever you desire.You will Not remember it All. So when you get older, those journals along with your photos to you will become more precious then gold it will seem. This is the way with myself. I can now look back on these hikes years ago and relive them. Just wish I was young again to do it all over again like I once did, for there is still still still so much out there remaining. There is still so much wilderness still out there where one could get 'Lost' on purpose in the Deep Wilds.
Just a tip which I thought of posting. Wishing Everyone The Best!
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