Back when I was a kid, my parents forced me to write a diary every day. To this day, I still have one of my diaries from when I was around 8 years ago. A string of entries from that diary cover a family trip to the Maritime provinces with great detail along with camping permits, ferry receipts, etc. pasted to the pages. I guess that qualifies as my very first trip report.

It took nearly 20 years for me to write my next trip report and that was the La Cloche Silhouette trail in Killarney Provincial park. I was just jotting notes onto a small pad of paper but I still have that notepad to this day.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of my trips since then have either been undocumented or documented and lost. I’m hoping to consistently document my trips moving forward. Even if it’s just a few sentences along with a single picture.