Take your outdoor learning further with the free Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Field Journal — a printable journal designed to help you record your experiences, practise practical skills and learn from time spent outdoors.

Whether you’re developing your bushcraft knowledge, working through the Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenges or simply exploring the natural world, keeping a field journal can help you recognise your progress and identify the skills you want to improve.

What’s Inside the Field Journal?

The journal includes dedicated sections to help you record and reflect on your outdoor sessions.

Field Entry: Record the date, location, weather conditions, purpose of your session and preparation.
Practical Skills & Observations: Write down the skills you practised, what you observed, what went well and what you learned.
Review & Progress: Reflect on your experience, identify skills to improve, record natural observations and plan your next session.

Why Keep an Outdoor Skills Journal?

Bushcraft is about more than learning techniques. It’s also about observation, practice, problem-solving and developing sound judgement outdoors.

Recording your experiences can help you remember what worked, learn from mistakes, track improvements and plan future practice.

You can use the journal alongside the Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge Tracker to record completed challenges and the Outdoor Route Planning Worksheet to prepare for your journeys.

Download Your Free Field Journal

Get started with your own outdoor learning journal. Download and print the PDF, keep it with your outdoor equipment, and use it to record your experiences as your skills develop.

The journal is free to download and print for your personal use.

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Explore more practical outdoor skills, work through the Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenges and build your knowledge through experience.

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CRAIG BURR

FOUNDER · PURE BUSHCRAFT

I'm Craig, the person behind Pure Bushcraft. I created Pure Bushcraft because I wanted somewhere people could learn real outdoor skills in a practical, straightforward way — from lighting a fire and tying knots to navigation, campcraft and everything in between.

You can read more about the story behind Pure Bushcraft here as well as our approach here.