What do you all think about them? Like 'em, hate 'em, don't really care?
I found out this morning that a few days after I climbed a fairly obscure Wyoming peak this summer, someone went up and placed a register. It's not my mountain, but it bugged me all the same. I like peaks without registers, and I love peaks without cairns or registers. Why do we need to leave signs of ourselves behind? Why can't we leave mountains without cairns and registers the way they are? One of the big reasons I climb mountains is to get away from people and evidence of them, not to find reminders of them.
I can see making a cairn to mark the highpoint of a broad, flat summit, but why else?
Those of you who disagree with me-- please tell what it is you like about these things. I'm curious, not looking for a big argument.