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Aw, do I have to write a trip report?
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You get to share your experience. |
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Your own words and pictures appear on a popular website. |
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It helps the Arizona Trailblazers. |
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Send the link to your friends! Relatives! Fellow hikers! |
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How to send in your report:
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Your way is the right way.
You don’t have to sweat HTML, or Microsoft Word, or anything
else: just send it.
You’ll get to review the report online before it is released.
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Some good information to include in your report:
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Trip name, location, date, leader, number of participants. |
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First names of participants, as a caption under the group picture. |
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What you saw or encountered (rock formations, wildlife, people, thornscrub, etc.). |
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Trails, trailheads, campsites, bushwhacking (oh, no!), getting lost or rained on. |
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Good stories from your trip. |
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Lessons learned, for the enlightenment of future hikers. |
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Information to leave out of your report:
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Last names of participants, with the exception of hike leaders. |
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Anything else that you wouldn’t want the whole world to see. |
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Pictures:
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For the most professional-looking report, choose the top ten pictures. |
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Include scenery, people, wildlife, streams, flowers, all things bright and colorful.
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Send them digitized in JPEG format (preferred). GIFs, TIFFs, etc. are also acceptable.
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Send the pictures full size. The attachments may take multiple emails. |
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The Webmaster will format your pictures for the trip report. |
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Include the photographer’s first name, if it isn’t you. |
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If you can think of clever captions, by all means provide them. |
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More About Pictures |
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Maps:
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The most valuable Trip Reports are the ones which include a GPS map.
If anyone on your hike recorded a map in JPEG or PNG format generated from their
GPS, send it. |
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If your computer happens to have the TOPO state series software from National
Geographic, send the map as a file in .tpo format, as well as a JPEG.
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