Training and Session Log
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Outdoor pursuits · OP-06
Climbing Session and Route Log
A free printable climbing logbook sheet — a line per route with crag or wall, grade as published, style, partner and notes, indoors or out.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Build a record of what you have actually climbed and how, so progress shows up as routes on paper rather than as a feeling about how the year went.
Who it is for
Climbers logging sport, trad, bouldering or indoor sessions, and anyone starting a logbook after years of not keeping one.
How to use it
- Write the grade exactly as the guidebook or the wall gives it, and note the system once at the top.
- Record the style honestly — led, seconded, top-roped — and the number of tries.
- Log the routes you backed off as well as the ones you finished.
- Use the notes column for gear placed, falls taken and what to change next time.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Every route climbed, one line each — crag or wall, the grade as it is published, how you did it and who you were tied to.
Grades as published, not converted. Write the grade exactly as the guidebook or the wall has it, and say which system it is in. No grade table or conversion is printed here, because the same letters and numbers mean different things in different systems and a conversion on a log sheet would only muddle your own record.
Write-on lines: Climber · Grade system used · Sheet · Year or season
Routes climbed — grade exactly as published; style is led, seconded or top-rope
Table, 13 rows: Date · Crag or wall · Route · Grade · Style · Tries · Partner · Notes — gear, falls, what to do differently
Questions
Why is there no grade conversion table?
Because the same route gets different numbers in different systems, and the comparisons between them are argued over rather than settled. Logging the published grade and naming the system keeps your own record honest.
Can I use this for bouldering as well as roped climbing?
Yes. Put the problem in the route column and the grade in its own system; the style column takes whatever word you use, and the tries column is often the interesting part on a boulder problem.
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