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Writing Your Trip Report Thank you for leading a trip for the Arizona Trailblazers! This page offers some ideas for writing your report. Trip reports are fun to read, highly informative, and helpful to others who may be planning to hike in Arizona. We want to hear all about it, in your own words. Send them in an email to our friendly , who will format them in HTML for the Arizona Trailblazers web page. You’ll get to review the report on line before it is released. Here’s some good information to include in your report: •  Trip name, location, date, leader, number of participants. •  What you saw or encountered (rock formations, wildlife, people, thornscrub, etc.). •  Trails, trailheads, campsites, bushwhacking (oh, no!), getting lost or rained on. •  Good stories from your trip. •  Lessons learned, for the enlightenment of future hikers.  Pictures!  •  Send them digitized in JPEG format (preferred). GIFs or TIFs are also acceptable. •  Include scenery, people, wildlife, streams, flowers, all things bright and colorful. •  The Webmaster will format your pictures for the trip report. •  If you can think of clever captions, by all means include them. •  A map in JPEG format generated from a GPS track can be very helpful. Email your words and pictures to our , who will format them in an HTML document, review the report with you, and put it on our club’s web page. Then you can share your report with friends by sending them its URL. Example:   http://www.azhikers.org/reports/q_2007/Ballantine07.html Trip Reports AZHC Library Plan a Trip © Copyright 2007 by the Arizona Trailblazers Hiking Club updated May 14, 2007