It was in 1977 that Chris Little had the idea of recording the details of each Foreign Trek in a Log Book. He wrote an account of the 1977 Trek he had just led in the Tirol, and one for the Trek in the Dolomites the previous year. He persuaded Tim Peacock and David Wylde to contribute accounts of the 1975 and 1974 Treks they had led. Subsequent leaders wrote their contributions, all by hand in the Log Book, from 1978 to 1982, which was the year I led my first Foreign Trek (in the Pyrenees). My contribution was written with an italic fountain pen in blue-black ink! It was the last Trek Log written by hand in the Log Book; for all the subsequent Treks I led I word-processed the logs on a computer in the autumn of each year. Some years later I word-processed all the originally hand-written accounts.

When planning my first Trek in the Pyrenees I found the Log of the first Pyrenean Trek in 1978 a very useful reference, and I wholeheartedly concur with Chris Little’s two principal reasons for maintaining a log i.e. as a practical help to future leaders taking Trek to the same area, and as an historical record more detailed than Ulula

Sadly, from 1998 onwards Trek Log was discontinued. However, for each of the post 1997 Treks that I have been on (1999, 2000, 2001,2002 and 2005) I have written ‘LAW’s Journal’. These bear a remarkable similarity to their predecessors, the Trek Logs!

The file below is a copy of page 47 of the Trekking Centenary Brochure, which includes a copy of Chris’ introduction to the Log Book. Click on the file name to read it .

Since the Trek Reunion in 2004 I have word-processed all the previously hand written logs from 1974 to 1982. The 1980 and 1981 Treks have their own pages (with illustrated logs) on this website, and 1982 will have its own page when I have scanned and processed the slides for that year. Files containing the text of the Trek Logs for 1974 to 1979 will be available here when I have properly formatted them.