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== Field Notes Trailhead Edition Guessing Game ==


'''Myke:''' Myke, we get to play a game we haven't played in a while. Okay. The Field Notes Trailhead Edition has launched mere weeks after the 50th anniversary delay. They have to get back on schedule somehow, right?

'''Brad:''' Uh-huh.

'''Myke:''' And so what we do is we have to pick or we have to guess what the other host thinks about this edition, like the pros and cons. What do you think I will think about this edition and what do I think you will think about this edition? So who do you want to go first? Do you want me to tell about you? I'm going to start. You're going to tell me.

'''Brad:''' I'm going to guess for you. I know that you're going to love this edition because you're going to love the green. You're going to love the orange. You're going to love the linen cover. You're super into it. And also, you know, like... It's got orange staples. Yeah. Orange staples and Merica. So I'm sure you're into it.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. And I'm sure you're not, right? This is against everything you want in the product. This is too much Merica.

'''Brad:''' Let me say something. I love the cover, right? I love the design. I love the green. The orange is so good. I also really like the way that they've drawn the trails over the maps. It reminds me of the coastal one, which is one of my favorite designs. Two things for me. One, I'm not going to go on a big hike through America. That would be a very big hike for me.

'''Myke:''' Two, it's lined. So that's the biggest problem. Yeah. I don't know as a design choice why you would ever use lined paper in a field notebook, right? This is a, theoretically, a hiking notebook. It has to be graph or grid of some sort. Never, ever in a million years would I have chosen lined to represent this edition.

'''Brad:''' I love the little double orange line at the top of the page, but yeah.

'''Myke:''' Aesthetically, it looks great. It looks great. They're just assuming like no one's going to be hiking with these additions and they're just going to be writing it.

'''Brad:''' That's actually the music of the regular notebook, which honestly, like that's the way that they're always used. And I think that's a fine assumption to make. Sure. Because as well, it's like if they really wanted to make a notebook for hikers, it wouldn't be one of these ones. They would do it as a separate thing, which is something they've done in the past, right? Right.

'''Myke:''' So like Expedition was dot grid and Coastal was reticle.

'''Brad:''' Also, I mean like they have created specific field notes additions that are not in the limited editions because they're purposeful. So like the drone one and they have the D&D one. Right, right. You know, like they create these specific ones. You know, like the only time I actually feel like lined was right was in the Reporter Notebook.

'''Myke:''' I thought the America the Beautiful was pretty good. I like the lined in that one. So that one I do remember being a decent lined edition. But yeah, Reporter's Notebook's great. Byline was that one. Byline. One of my favorites. It was the original name.

'''Brad:''' Oh, such a good edition. Oh my God, that's so good. Byline. One of the rare ones that they ended up just turning into a standardized product. Because it was so good.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. And then they changed the name. Like that's what the Reporter comes from. Yeah. Then they changed that. Yeah. So yeah, I think that I just think I just think it's a miss on the the internal lines from a hey, this is our idea of what this notebook should be. Lined doesn't fit that to me. But otherwise, I mean, I just, you know, I mean, orange and green and like the colors. It's beautiful. Like it's set up really well. Really beautiful edition. Did the pathing and all that stuff. But yeah.

'''Brad:''' We're just not lined paper people. Yeah. Yeah. But there are people that are into that.

'''Myke:''' And so this is like a plus. Probably the majority. I'd say majority of Field Notes customers are happiest with lined. Which is which is fine. It's just what I'm saying is like not this edition. Like, I mean, they have a compass in, you know, the marketing of it. And like. Like they're trying to make it this hiking thing and topography maps and like none of that says line to me. But whatever. Whatever. It looks good.

'''Brad:''' There's got to be a bit of a gritted teeth. Like inhale through gritted teeth with this one though. Right. Right. Because like they even mention it, right? There's fires everywhere in a lot of places in America right now where these kind of trails would be. And the patch says blaze your trail.

'''Myke:''' I didn't see that. I didn't.

'''Brad:''' I know that there's like this is just one of those things, right? They've been in the works for ages. How were they going to know? Right.

'''Myke:''' Go USA.

'''Brad:''' Oh, God. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' Let's do some Ask TPA, Myke. I don't think we got any last week.