Take our
Intentions Book
Creative Challenge
With this creative hack of a DOC Intentions Book we are asking for a different kind of trip report.
We don’t want your videos, or even the photos. We want your thoughts and feelings, handwritten on a page. A form that makes sense out in the bush.
We’re putting together a public journal by trampers for trampers that reads like
someone ripped the rules out of a hut book and replaced them with
creative prompts for a bushclad mind.
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How can I contribute?
Imagine yourself sitting inside a backcountry hut. You’re warm in your merinos and sleeping bag after a brisk hike, watching the fire flicker.
In your hands is a book with blank pages and a pen.
In your hands is a book with blank pages and a pen.
Think of the next person who will visit this remote hut. What message can you write to keep that tramper company while they sip their coffee?
Feel the embrace of the stillness. What can you draw that will keep this calm within your mind a while longer?
Feel the embrace of the stillness. What can you draw that will keep this calm within your mind a while longer?
Whether you can make this journey to a hut before 1st of October or not, this is the intention behind this project.
Get to know pen and paper again. Experience time in Te Taiao and express yourself in any way that seems right in the moment, wherever you are.
Hut stay not necessarily required
Need a Tramping Book?
These Clairefontaine notebooks have been our personal choice of everyday sketchbooks for the past decade. The pocket size is perfect for carrying on your next tramp, weighing only 50g, and ensuring any inspiration is easily recorded, the good old fashioned way.
Tramping Books (blank)
Mini Hut branded tramping books have 96 blank sheets of Clairefontaine's world famous 90gsm brushed vellum paper.
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Pocket Sized (9x14 cm, 50g)
Colours and logo placement may vary. Let us know any preferences in order notes.
Pocket Sized (9x14 cm, 50g)
Colours and logo placement may vary. Let us know any preferences in order notes.
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Ready to Send in your Pages?
All Submissions will be published.
Scan or photograph your pages and submit them by October 1st 2025
Use this form or email them to contact@keminiko.com
Contributors will receive 3 copies of the publication and go in the draw to win from a selection of prizes.
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Need More Support?
Where did this idea come from?
It’s been brewing for a while, ever since we stopped making public huts. Those hut books filled with beautiful entries which we miss!
We held an online Hui in May
You can watch the recording (19 mins long) to hear more about how the project came about and how to be involved.
Feeling Unsure?
Life can be busy, winter can be cold and complications are real.
I recently wrote participants a letter as I’m keen to hear what may be holding you back.
We can figure out the difficulties together. Write me back.
More of a visual learner?
How great is this mindmap drawn by Andrew James?
We also created an online visual moodboard page for the project.
Feel free to add your input to this experimental process.
See Board
We also created an online visual moodboard page for the project.
Feel free to add your input to this experimental process.
See Board
What are others submitting?
In a hut intentions book you get to read what others have written.
To help you feel a bit more connected we made this video unboxing the first physical entries from Constance McDonald
Watch Video
To help you feel a bit more connected we made this video unboxing the first physical entries from Constance McDonald
Watch Video
Bring a friend
We’d love your help in spreading our idea through out the motu. Consider asking a friend to take up a challenge with you!
Download info sheet
Download info sheet
Still have questions?
Send us an email. We’d love to hear from you!
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