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Field Notes Expedition Edition 3-Pack of Waterproof and Tearproof Notebooks
Virtually Indestructible
Aesthetically, you’ll find plenty to like: a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages feature our popular dot-graph paper printed in light gray.
But the real innovation here is the paper. It’s maybe not even fair to call it paper. The whole book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing tearproof and waterproof paper extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia.
We could go on and on about our new notebooks’ durability and incredible properties, and we will, in a series of 12 (reasonably) scientific tests. See the video in the product image gallery.
Months of development and testing were required to get these books just right, and we’d like to thank Yupo for their extensive support, as well as the great printers and ink technicians that pitched in to help.
IN THE WILD
The majority of our customers may not test the limits of these notebooks, but the map of Antarctica is neither hyperbole nor coincidence. We sent the Expedition edition to the South Pole with explorer Ben Saunders back in 2013 as he and his team retraced Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Pole and back, on foot and unsupported.
PLEASE NOTE
Note: Synthetic paper is nonporous and doesn’t absorb ink like our conventional papers. Ballpoint pens, pencils, or fine tip Sharpies work best.
AMERICAN MADE
Don’t settle for imitations, all Field Notes paper products, papers, and inks are Made in the USA.
Virtually Indestructible Dot-Graph Paper
Inside of each memo book you'll find 48 pages of waterproof and tearproof dot-graph paper.
Specifications
- Cover: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 74#C paper
- Innards: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 57#T paper
- Dot-graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (8.9cm × 13.9cm).
- Use pencil/ballpoint pen for best results.
- Made in the USA
Subtle Varnish
The Field Notes Expedition Edition features a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. Inside each memo book you will find 48 pages of dot-graph paper.
Andrew
2025-09-01 10:56:06
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.
Huan
2025-06-01 13:27:04
Pros:+ tearproof paper+ waterproof paper+ sturdy yet thin and easily pocketable+ dot patternCons:- doesn't play well with most writing utensils- smudges a littleSynthetic inks work best (ballpoint pen), and pencil also comes in. They both smudge a little but like I've said to some of the people who pointed that out: you're essentially trading a little smudging in return to have strongly tear- and water-resistant paper, in a notebook that's gorgeous and doesn't fall apart in a back pocket after 2 weeks (like most of the Field Notes I've had to tape up).I was very on the fence about buying these; I had been thinking about it for about 4 months, and all the complaints about smudging put me off. But the indestructibility is brilliant and totally worth the smudging.If you're one of those types who need to have a perfect and pretty pocket notebook to show off your bullet journal on instagram, this definitely isn't for you.If you need a reliable and hardy notebook to be taken anywhere and that can stand up to abuse, whether dirty hands or bad weather, like me, then it's definitely worth it.
DriftingArchaeo
2025-05-29 16:19:37
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.
DAB
2025-05-07 14:57:19
A proper waterproof paper. Good with a B/2B pencil or fine/ultra fine Sharpie marker. Prompt delivery.
iBob
2025-04-29 10:46:29
Die kleine Form der Fieldnotes mit wechseln, jahreszeitlichen, anlassbezogenen Covern sind immer wieder schön, praktisch und hilfreich für schnelle Notizen.
Benjamin de Tudela
2025-02-28 18:32:26
Papel satinado, imposible escribir sobre él. Es bonito, se puede mojar, pero nada escribe sobre un papel brillante, ni los lápices ni las plumas. Los he tirado a la basura.
Mohamadch115
2025-01-14 17:29:45
absolutely excellent quality little notebook, from the cover to the paper quality. Made in the US of A
enrique benitez
2024-12-07 14:18:05
Son de excelente material y muy prácticas valen la pena
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