Mt. Baird page deleted

nebben · Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 187

Did this happen forever ago and I'm just catching up, or is this something new? Anybody have info that can be slapped together to make a page, or will I do this if I pay the mountain a visit in the next month?

Dean · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 574

I believe BigLost was the one who put it up originally so and he deleted several of his pages which makes sense as to why this one disappeared.. Here's a link to the pics that are still floating:

http://www.summitpost.org/object_list.php?object_type=3&object_name_3=Mt.+Baird

Since I have a lot of information on this one, here is the first edition:
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/493689/mount-baird-id.html

Here's a trip report that Dennis Poulin authored:
http://www.summitpost.org/parent/342452/a-day-hike-on-mt-baird.html

Dean

nebben · Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 187

whoa ...

Did I miss something with BigLost?

tazz · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 497

ditto! what happened? He was a great photographer and had some of the the best shots from the tetons areas.

Dean · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 574

I dunno what happened Question

but he bailed for some reason. I agree about his pics being super and wonder if he just got bored with SP and pulled the plug. I don't know all of the pages he deleted but I found out the hard way when I tried to access my stuff on Mt. Scott and found it was gone (my pics weren't of course, just floating). I put Mt. Scott up again but I'm wondering what else got hosed.

There used to be a link to SP on the cohp.org page but that link doesn't work now (although I will contact Adam and let him know). Fortunately I had a good page of notes on Mt. Baird and was able to put it up again without too much effort.

tazz · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 497

thats too bad he was one of my fav contributers here. Sad

Mark Doiron · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 552

I received a PM from BigLost in Jan 2008. He felt that he and SP had drifted apart--I won't go into the details since it's for him to say (or not say) exactly why he felt that way. But, he did tell me that he'd deleted over 200+ images (which was affecting a custom object I maintain, and why I'd contacted him), and that he would probably transfer his mountain pages over to other SPers. I agree: He had some great images and information, and is missed. --mark d.

Bob Sihler · Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 3062

Biglost maintains his own site with the trip reports and pictures many of us loved. He and I plan to climb a mountain or two together this summer, and I can't wait to meet him.

Anyone interested can PM me for a link to his site.

And Mark is right-- BL felt that he and SP had grown apart. He asked to have his account, and all with it, deleted, though he did transfer some pages to others first.

He was (and is) a class act. And he is missed.