So as I've been climbing more and keeping myself busier with other priorities, I sadly have been contributing very little to SummitPost the last few years.
However, one of the basic things I've been doing that has kept up with my climbing is putting up comprehensive photo albums on Picasa, with a rough "TR abstract", informative captions on all of the photos, geolocations of the photos, and often at a later time, annotated photos of the route or other things. Basically, by the time I have those, it is pretty much a photo TR, which I have occasionally transferred to a TR format on SuperTopo, although that still only is done for maybe 1/10 of the outings since even that takes a lot of time.
While I still would do the occasional TR and route submissions etc. on SP, so that I can share more info more casually as I go is there becoming a standard/acceptable way on SP to "share" albums? Like what I do with these albums in Facebook and Google+?
I'm thinking maybe just throwing up a forum post in the relevant region announcing the album, and maybe adding the link to the relevant route or mountain page (if any) in the comments section - unless there is a better place to put it? I know SP generally doesn't accept forum posts to external trip reports, but this seems a little different and the albums get enough attention from my friends on Google+ & Facebook (climbers & non-climbers alike), that it seems a shame that it is not being kept more in the SP stream. And every now and then when I have time to make a more complete 'product' from some of these, I certainly would do so!
An example would be something like a simple forum post like this:
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2012-05-27to28 - Charlotte Dome S Face (III, 5.8, 12P)
As a last minute Memorial weekend "Plan B" climb, Scott Berry and I seized an opportunity to climb together and experience a route that we both had at the top of our lists: The South Face of Charlotte Dome (III, 5.8, 12P). This "50 Classic Climb" turned out to be a stellar outing, with pitch after pitch of immaculate rock and interesting climbing features and ever increasing exposure. Scott & I managed to extend & link pitches such that we brought it down to 9 LONG pitches. We waited until after the Saturday snowstorm had passed before heading up Saturday night and sleeping a few hours at the Charlotte Creek-Bubbs Creek jct. It turns out my friends Chris Terry & Dominique & their friends also had plans to climb the route, and we ran into them at the base and climbed it as 3 teams of 2. Some 'issues' near the end of the climb resulted in a rather unique bivy experience before we were able to finish descending the next day.