Finding myself Increasingly less Able to Contribute

[Josh Lewis]

It's kinda strange to say, but I been finding myself less able to contribute to SummitPost as much as I would like to. I have tons of free time on my hands. Now here are the main reasons:
1. My partner(s) want the Page. Understandable, but inconvenient.
2. My partner(s) are wanting the trip report(s) of places I'm going to. This is why my featured trip report has a big whole in the story on day 3.
3. The page for most of the peaks I climb are already taken.
4. I'm climbing so much that I don't have the time. Although now my time is freeing up.

I admit I still have potential for submitting things, but in some ways I feel limited. Yesterday was the best rock climb I've ever done but I cannot post the trip report. I'm sure other SP members run into this problem.

(Point #4 is 100% my fault. )

[Andrew Rankine]

For me, the biggest problem is the amount of time it takes to post pictures in a page... I don't think I am alone when I say that the pictures in TR's are just as important as the words. If there were a way to download all the images for a TR at once instead of individual uploads I would have a lot more up here, because it would take substantially less time.

[Josh Lewis]

Are you talking about uploading pictures? The bulk uploader fixed this issue for me a long time ago:
http://www.summitpost.org/summitpost-bu ... der/488357

However, you still gotta format the photos in the trip report itself which takes time. Especially on mountain pages if your looking for the best pictures and you have hundreds of images to go though. But in the end it looks very nice.

[EricChu]

Are you talking about uploading pictures? The bulk uploader fixed this issue for me a long time ago:
http://www.summitpost.org/summitpost-bu ... der/488357

However, you still gotta format the photos in the trip report itself which takes time. Especially on mountain pages if your looking for the best pictures and you have hundreds of images to go though. But in the end it looks very nice.

Yes, but the problem is, this bulk uploader only functions on Windows. As I use Mac, I still have to upload the pics one by one as well.

[Josh Lewis]

Forgot about that issue. A buddy of mine had the same problem. This is why SP needs a multi upload interface on the page itself.

[mountainsandsound]

Just curious, do you have a job Josh? I keep seeing your trip reports and thinking you must be a college student whose parents don't insist on you having a summer job or internship. Ahh the college years.

[Andrew Rankine]

Forgot about that issue. A buddy of mine had the same problem. This is why SP needs a multi upload interface on the page itself.

Exactly. I'm a Mac user. I like the cascadeclimbers.com uploader, but what would be ideal is an uploader like facebook.

[lcarreau]

My parents didn't know where to send me, so I enlisted in the military service for six years.

Boy, did that SUCK !

[Deleted User]

The fact that it takes a long time might be a good thing. Seems the important things are posted and probably keeps a lot of garbage from the site. And it's good everything isn't known by everyone around the world, nice to keep some adventure in the mountains...

[toxo]

Use the "tons of free time" to party.

/thread

[myles]

There's always Off Route!

[Norman]

Maybe we could learm from CC trip reports, short, few pics and abbreviated comments on trip. I enjoy the trip reports many post, but they're either really good at the computer or have lots of time. Just post a story line and attach photos at end with comments uner each photo. Doesn't have to be too time consuming and we all get to see what each other has done...which is great short reading. don't burn out on trip reports trying to make them too involved. I like the short ones as much as any...

[TimB]

4. I'm climbing so much that I don't have the time. Although now my time is freeing up.

good for you Josh! enjoy it while you can, before 'life happens'. but you're still young so you have time.
I for one really enjoy your reports and adventures. it's been fun watching you over the years. it's really quite impressive!
so even if you don't contribute mountain/route pages anymore, as long as you find the time to post some pics and quick write ups, I'll be happy

+1!

Stick around Josh, I like reading your reports and seeing your photos.

Tim

[Josh Lewis]

@ Norman: I have a hard time writing mini reports. I've tried it last week or so but had to give up because it's completely against my style. But coming up I may post a "mini" report but with tons of eye candy of course. I admit that part of it is because my goal is to make SP as awesome as possible by making it so people have to look else where as much as possible.

@ Tim: Thanks for the encouragement, I still have some amazing trips unposted. This summer was the second best summer of my life.

[Buz Groshong]

It's kinda strange to say, but I been finding myself less able to contribute to SummitPost as much as I would like to. I have tons of free time on my hands. Now here are the main reasons:
1. My partner(s) want the Page. Understandable, but inconvenient.
2. My partner(s) are wanting the trip report(s) of places I'm going to. This is why my featured trip report has a big whole in the story on day 3.
3. The page for most of the peaks I climb are already taken.
4. I'm climbing so much that I don't have the time. Although now my time is freeing up.

I admit I still have potential for submitting things, but in some ways I feel limited. Yesterday was the best rock climb I've ever done but I cannot post the trip report. I'm sure other SP members run into this problem.

(Point #4 is 100% my fault. )

Just because a page is already taken doen't mean you can't contribute. You can add photos, routes, trip reports. You can also e-mail the owner with suggestions or corrections.

Also, if the pages for the peaks you climb are taken, maybe you could find some new peaks to climb.