Task · part of 11. The five-day, 30-mile trek: plan it, take it, journal it
11(c). Keep a daily journal DURING the trek
Required Often forgotten
Day by day: what you did, what worked well, and what could be improved next time. Kept during the trek, which means it starts on day one.
Notes and warnings
Warning. The journal is kept DURING the trek and it is a DAILY one: a day-by-day description with what worked and what you would change. It is written last on the badge, which makes it read like a write-up, and it is not one. If it has not been started on the first night it cannot be kept at all, and there is no second 30-mile trek to fix it on. Pack something to write in.
Where this step comes from
- Backpacking Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 11(c) · Asks for a daily journal kept during the trek.