Expedition Edition 3-Pack | Waterproof Notebook

TL;DR: The notebooks are amazing, but you can't use any pen to write on them successfully. Some will smear, and that sucks. Read on for more. As the title states, I love it, but with slight hesitation. To clarify, I love Field Notes as a brand. They make amazing little notebooks that are durable (not just this edition, all of them are durable, at least, in my experience) that enabled me to do something I've never been able to do: journal. I have tried for years to journal regularly. I don't know what it is about these small notebooks that make it less daunting of an experience. If I had to guess, it's due to the smaller amount of pages. When I was trying to use a Moleskine, I felt like I had to fill it. It seemed like a huge, daunting commitment that I wasn't ready for so I'd get like two days in and quit. With these, I've journaled a solid week, for every day, and have yet to slow down. What makes these great for journaling is that they are small and light enough to sit in your back pocket. You always have it, and it is within reach. I love that about Field Notes. Currently I use one for journaling and the other is just for random notes or doodles when I'm bored. Moving on to this Expedition edition specifically, it was hard to find a pen that worked on them. If you go to this link: [...] Field Notes explains how this isn't 'normal' paper and that not every writing instrument will work, which is annoying, but it's a trade off for the amazing feature of waterproof notes. I recommend buying these notebooks along with this pen: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E103CY?[...] This pen is amazing and the ink doesn't smear on this version of Field Notes like my beloved papermates.

I'm an archaeologist, and I like to keep a field journal. It's a little old fashioned, but it's nice to be able to refer back to the journal to include information that you wrote in the field for your final report such as the weather during excavation and things like that. I've had these notebooks for a while and they're probably the most rugged pocket notebooks on the planet. I've wallowed through the mud and dirt with one of these in my pocket with no issues. I've also sweated all over them and nearly lost one in a swamp, but you can just hose them off and keep using them. The bright orange coloration makes them easy to find if one does escape from your shirt pocket. They also have a few small but useful features on their covers, such as fields to enter your contact information and a table for coordinates on the front cover, as well as a 12cm ruler on the back page, which is actually kind of handy for measuring small artifacts as I pull them out of a test unit. As an added bonus, these Expedition notebooks are also dot-ruled, which is far more useful than lined or graph paper. It effectively serves as lined paper when you need it, or graph paper when you need it. It makes creating tables of information extremely easy. I wish even more notebooks were printed with dot-rule rather than regular lines, as it's infinitely more useful. It should be noted that a regular pen may not write very well on the pages of these notebooks. A Fischer Space Pen gets the best results. A Space Pen combined with these field notebooks makes a fairly bulletproof writing system that you can use to record field data without having to worry about it getting destroyed by something like water. All in all, these are my favorite field pocket notebooks, and I highly recommend them.

First off this notebook is amazing, it is waterproof it's like it was coated with a permanent Rain X or something! I haven't tried to see if the pages are Tearproof yet because that seems like when people tell you your phone has a built in scale... and then you stand on your phone(don't do that btw). I'd rather just be doing something adventurous and some animal claws at my notebook and I'm like "wow that didn't tear!" Than being in my house and trying to tear a notebook I just bought haha. So I just want to eleviate all of the pen concerns. As this is my first amazon review because I tried the pens they said and you still have to wait forever for the ink to write on this amazing outdoor pocket thinkpad right?! Like when your writing down an amazing idea outrunning an avalanche or feeding a family of bald eagles on a mountain peak do you really have time to wait 8 minutes for the ink to dry?! By then you have another thought or you have to solve word hunger or something right?! These notebooks are built for the adventurer or someone on the go. They are waterproof so I tried a pen that writes underwater and it dried almost instantly on this paper. Try the Gerber Impromptu Tactical Pen. It's wonderful for this book and a great form of self defense that passes as a regular pen. Also, if you ever need to jot down an idea under water(I'm not sure why you would but you could also be Indiana jones reading this review so whatever balances your boat I guesshaha), then this duo of the field notes notebook and that Gerber pen are wonderful together. I loved the pen btw this is a dual review. Write thoughts, fight off bears with the pen and feed the eagles. If you are going to write a review don't be dull lol. * if it is now illegal to feed eagles because of some odd law somewhere I claim no responsibility if you choose to feed the eagles nor do I claim any of you get attacked by an eagle. Find your adventure and write it down on this amazing notebook.

A proper waterproof paper. Good with a B/2B pencil or fine/ultra fine Sharpie marker. Prompt delivery.

Die kleine Form der Fieldnotes mit wechseln, jahreszeitlichen, anlassbezogenen Covern sind immer wieder schön, praktisch und hilfreich für schnelle Notizen.

The paper is a bit plasticky

absolutely excellent quality little notebook, from the cover to the paper quality. Made in the US of A

De el frente son naranjas del lado de atrás son negras la portada es delgada como plástica y se ve muy resistente, y aprueba de agua la quería guardar en un maxpedition mini pero está un par de milímetros más grande sin embargo cabe bien en cualquier estuche, y la calidad se nota en la contraportada indica las tintas y los materiales de los que está hecho y el tramado interno de los puntitos grises se nota que es de muy buena calidad