That good feeling of a Rite-in-the-Rain field notebook when it has been in your pocket through a week of drenching rain, splashes by salt water, folded over with each paddle stroke of your kayak, and filled with words and images and diagrams in camp each night and morning.

These notebooks have accompanied me on many trips to wild places, and they do a great job of holding up under the weather’s worst conditions. I have very few excuses not to take notes

A bright yellow Rite-in-the-Rain field notebook splayed open so front and back covers are visible. On the front in bold black sharpie is the name “O’HARA” accompanied by a NOLS Alaska sticker and a sticker of a sea kayak and paddle that are both artistically decorated. The back cover has a sticker from Lazy Otter Charters, Prince William Sound, Whittier, Alaska. That sticker also has an indigenous-inspired (or indigenous-created?) line-art print of a sea otter.