by graham » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:24 pm
Bob Burd wrote:graham wrote:I was lead to believe that summit registers only recently started getting swiped with the advent of the internet(s) and only after some evil SPer posted a photo of some beloved mountain celeb’s entry
You must be talking about this one:
by Bob Burd » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:52 pm
MoapaPk wrote:The argument (certainly not mine) went like this:
1) fiendish signature stealer "Grinch" doesn't know which peaks have authentic Norman Clyde signatures, so distant peaks are safe;
by ExploreABitMore » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:32 pm
by MoapaPk » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:44 pm
Bob Burd wrote: Me? I hate business cards in registers. I take 'em all back to the TH and toss 'em.
by rhyang » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:47 pm
MoapaPk wrote:Bob Burd wrote: Me? I hate business cards in registers. I take 'em all back to the TH and toss 'em.
Do you ever stop to read the business cards? Quite a few are clearly fabricated, and are pokes at people who leave (or remove) business cards.
by edevart » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:08 pm
Bob Burd wrote:MoapaPk wrote:
But I love finding the cans and jars at the summit. Positively love it.
by lefty » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:49 pm
by ksolem » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:59 pm
by ksolem » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:18 pm
lefty wrote:One thing I find particularly nice about finding registers on peaks is knowing when the last party signed in. This is particualry true of peaks that are snowed in during winter and where in May or June I might be the first one to have visited the summit during that year.
lefty wrote: ...After a friend lost her life in the Sierra's a few years ago I began looking for and photographing her signature in register books on the peaks I summitted. I find it comforting to find a signature of a lost friend who enjoyed the same peak before I got there.
by rpc » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:22 pm
by mungeclimber » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:44 pm
Dingus Milktoast wrote:edevart wrote:Hi All,
A recent posting by a fellow SPer got me thinking.... where do summit registers go to die? Or what happens to them when they are all full and there is no more room to store them on the summit? I know that many registers from the Sierras and other prominent CA peaks like Shasta end up at the Bancroft Library at Cal Berkeley. But how about the rest?
Basically, the recent poster pointed out that he took the register home with him once he saw that it was completely filled up, and that he was looking for somebody to send it to.
Personally, I think they all belong at any library that'll take them, and if not that then a local nonprofit or stewardship organization that has long ties to that particular area and that can make them available to the public as necessary. Leaving them in the hands of a single individual for any extended period of time, no matter who it is, just seems wrong to me.
Thoughts?
I agree.
DMT
by norco17 » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:46 am
granite4brains wrote:I think it's amazing people get as worked up over issues like this as they do.
Me ... I can't imagine hating registers so much that I would want to carry out a large awkward shaped 15 pound ammo can 15 miles just to throw it in the garbage.
On the other side, it does seem a shame for the ORIGINAL registers to fade away and become unreadable, and a museum does sound desirable to fix that and preserve mountaineering history. But in the end, it's just a piece of paper and I can care less about proving to other people I was at the top of something. Especially since I'm sure not making history with my weenie climbs
I almost always sign in when one's there, but it doesn't break my heart to not find one either. The experience of the climb and maybe the few pics I snap on the way are much more precious to me.
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