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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 16, 2011 - 01:11am PT
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It is cool when they only have one entry in about 40 years. Love them or hate them they seem to have some colorful history etched in them. Post up your pics and stories.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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May 16, 2011 - 02:52am PT
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I used to do a local peak every year that had a register. The last time I went up, I only found some shards of glass from said register.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 16, 2011 - 09:14am PT
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Climbed Bridger Jack in IC a couple of years ago and found a copy of The Book of Mormon on the summit. Those missionaries get around, all of the routes to the summit are on the burly side.
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Scott Thelen
Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
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May 16, 2011 - 10:05am PT
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Scott Thelen
Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
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May 16, 2011 - 10:09am PT
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 16, 2011 - 10:12am PT
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edit: Scott beat me to it!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 16, 2011 - 12:42pm PT
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Two great pioneers of the 40s and 50s out for a leisurely stroll up the Royal Arches on Memorial Day 1951. Nelson and Salathe, together as a team, made some remarkable early first ascents in the Valley.
Register copyright and courtesy of the Bancroft Library, Mountain Record Section, UC Berkeley.
The common tale of the entries into the Royal Arches Register was the universal difficulty climbers had in locating it.
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Clovis, CA
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May 16, 2011 - 01:01pm PT
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^^Nice!
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Barcus
Social climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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May 16, 2011 - 02:29pm PT
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Bump!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2011 - 08:41pm PT
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Sometimes the register is used to extend important information.DT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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May 16, 2011 - 11:58pm PT
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bump for on topic!
My favorite register entry was at the bottom of lost soldier cave, Ash Mountain, CA.
Pauline Chubbuck
"Some moms will follow their kids anywhere."
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dipper
climber
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May 17, 2011 - 01:16am PT
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Ed gets bonus points in my book for getting his boys on a summit at such a young age.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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May 17, 2011 - 02:30am PT
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Goofball self-portrait on Freel Peak last Thursday. Quite possibly the only photo of a register I've ever taken, inadvertently or otherwise.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2011 - 05:35pm PT
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A lot of them in the Needles are now gone as well. I have done quite a few fifth class summits in the Needles and a lot of the time the register is no longer there. I have never found a Conn Penny sorry to say. I have found an elvis watch and two Tom Robbins books wrapped in duct tape on top of Devil's Tower. I guess we could do like this guy did on the top on Inyan Kara and they would not go away so easily. Inyan Kara is a holy mountain to the local tribes. I guess he should have thought twice before doing that.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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May 17, 2011 - 05:48pm PT
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Barbarian
Trad climber
The great white north, eh?
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May 17, 2011 - 05:56pm PT
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My favorite summit register is on a remote peak in the central Sierra. It consists of 4 names on a scrap of paper and is housed in a plastic 35mm film cannister surrounded by a ziplock bag all buried within a 12" cairn.
I won't tell you which peak, but if you find it, post up....Those names are getting kind of lonely.
Where is your favorite register?
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Kligfield
Mountain climber
Boulder, CO
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This site has a full description of Grand Teton National Park historic summit register information.
http://www.tetonclimbinghistory.com/
TETON CLIMBING HISTORY: THE SUMMIT REGISTER ARCHIVE
This site contains a collection of digital images of the Grand Teton National Park Summit Register Archive. The summit registers were maintained from about the late-1920s into the 1980s and they form a unique repository of Teton climbing history.
This collection is arranged by chronological order under the specific peak name. It is a complete record of all the entries that were preserved. Although a number of records have been lost or destroyed, it is generally true that any missing years or gaps in the sequence occurred because the entries never existed in the first place. For example, early season climbs often went unrecorded because the registers were buried in snow.
The images of the summit registers were made by Paul Horton as part of a project to organize the original pages and preserve them in archival sleeves. The collection is kept at Park Headquarters at Moose, Wyoming. Its existence is due to the ongoing efforts of generations of Grand Teton National Park Rangers and other Teton mountaineers. In particular, Leigh Ortenburger performed a substantial amount of voluntary archive work in past years. Rangers Dan Burgette and Renny Jackson provided considerable aid to this preservation project.
Paul Horton
2007
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Sorry cant read the label very well in this old pic. Eichorns Pinnacle Summit Cairn.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Scott/Gary, is that Starr one written in blood?
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