How to Write a Hiking Log

How to Write a Hiking Log (182 Kb)

Logbooks of hikes are required for the Springbok Scout and the Hiker Interest Badge. Written logs may also be presented for Adventurer Day Journey and First Class Hike. How to Write a Hiking Log is a guide to Scouts on how to write these logs.

• When must logbooks be kept?
• Expected standards
• Why keep a log of a hike?
• Planning your hike
• Public relations
• Dress
• Equipment for logbook
• What goes in a logbook
• The cover
• Logbook layout
• Report on the journey
• Observations to be recorded
• Example of a score chart for a hike log
  

Contact your provincial Scout office or Scout Shop to purchase a copy of How to Write a Hiking Log.

HOW TO WRITE A HIKING LOG
BY ELWYN JENKINS
Art work by Robert Robilliard

Second edition
Reprint 1996
Internet edition 2002

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