Field notes, not travel guides.

Fieldnotes started as a personal log of long trail runs — distances, elevation, what the weather did halfway up a ridge — and grew into something closer to a travel journal once it became clear the two habits were really the same one: writing down what a place or a route actually asked of you, while it’s still fresh enough to be honest about.

There are no gear round-ups here, no “top 10 hikes near X,” and no affiliate links. Every entry is one trip, one route, or one stretch of time in one place, written in enough detail that it would still be useful to the person who wrote it a year later.

How entries get written

Notes get taken during the trip, usually on paper because phones die at the worst moments. The write-up happens within a few days, before memory smooths over the parts that were actually difficult. Stats — distance, elevation, moving time — come from a GPS watch when one was running, and get left out entirely when it wasn’t, rather than estimated.

Get in touch

Route questions, corrections, or just want to talk about contour intervals — reach out at hello@fieldnotes.example.