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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 18, 2013 - 04:09pm PT
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Personally, I likes em. I've found altoid tins, cigar tubes, film canisters, ammo cans, PVC tubes with caps, baby food jars, and some really heavy threaded cast brass ones with chains.
I've only had the opportunity to place a summit register thrice. One was an overly complex PVC container, the other an altoid a tin, and one was a large prescription pill bottle.
I think the oldest I found was from the 40's
I like reading 'em.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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If they miss it, they'll call. I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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I love reading summit registers. I know I placed one or two on obscure little summits, but mostly I just read them. Unfortunately, some of the real gems are long gone. The register on Starr King was full of legendary names when I climbed it in 1971 (there's a thread about it on ST), and many others have wonderful entries.
My favorite "no-name" entry was on Cathedral Peak in 1969 by someone whose name I forgot: "Climbed solo. F*ck solo climbing!"
John
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 18, 2013 - 05:16pm PT
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They are prayers to the mountain. Leave 'em rot like prayer flags.
What does the Everest SR look like? A bible? Hillary's words in red? :)
"Sit down, Sir Edmund, please control yourself. We'll call on you to say your peace. And stop flapping your wings, sir! He is NOt being serious. Seriously."
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:22pm PT
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anybody ever defile one?
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:50pm PT
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I usually don't care about them, but, I remember climbing Castleton tower early on and the original summit register was still there with a lot of history. The previous ascent to ours was by Earl Wiggans, who was a friend of mine, described what his girlfriend had done to/for him on top a few days earlier. That one still makes me laugh and I was a little jealous.
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skamoto
Mountain climber
coalinga ca
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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I remember climbing mt hoffman in Yosemite and i thought for sure there would be one on top. I looked everywhere and i couldn't find one anywhere! I was looking forward to reading it more than signing it.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Dec 18, 2013 - 06:56pm PT
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I love em. Here's my Matthes Crest shot with a little drawing I put in there of our view from the summy.
I always feel shortchanged in a way when I can't find em. I couldn't find em on my last two summits, Mt. Hooper and Mt. Emerson. Anybody know where they are? Was I blind or might they be gone?
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 07:03pm PT
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I rarely bother with them unless it's an obscure peak that still has the original. Then I'll sign in and maybe write something.
Here's one....I got the FSA (First Summer Ascent) of this desert peak. It was seriously hot! LOL
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Dec 18, 2013 - 07:30pm PT
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If you've climbed in Tetons BITD, then it will probably be fun to browse through http://www.tetonclimbinghistory.com/.
Among many other interesting entries, I found mine from my first climb; the beginning of an entirely new aspect of life for me and now a long time ago.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 10:27pm PT
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anybody ever defile one?
I hope I don't derail this thread, but I feel like half the registers I've looked at over the last few years have been wall-to-wall religious nonsense. It's really obnoxious.
Otherwise, I like 'em, especially for peak-bagger type peaks. Those are the most colorful. Like a big, collective diary. Hometowns of folks I'll never meet. Weather reports. Itineraries and time checks. Goofy comments from kids. Occasionally something poignant or moving. And the odd familiar name now and then. A fine tradition.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Dec 18, 2013 - 10:41pm PT
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Bancroft Library, you're no different than the Museum of England stealing all those Greek artifacts. PUT THEM BACK.
Bancroft Library had nothing to do with it.
No one at The Bancroft Library, and I mean no one, and that includes me when I'm there, gives a rat's ass about summit registers. The summit registers were/have been collected by The Sierra Club *the ones originally placed and maintained by the SC), and got sent to The Bancroft with the rest of the SC archive once the SC decide it didn't give a rat's ass about archives.
The Bancroft LIbrary could have cared less if The Sierra Club had included summit registers in its archival collection. Folks at The B could care less is all the summit registers currently in situ spontaneously combust. This has nothing in common with the British Museum campaign to acquire material.
If you want to start a campaign to save summit registers, go picket The Sierra Club. Or try to join The SC Board and place an action item on the voting agenda.
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T2
climber
Cardiff by the sea
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Dec 18, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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original summit register on top of the Moses
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 18, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 18, 2013 - 11:46pm PT
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Bill Amborn did a fantastic job with the Starr King register. You can search it here on the topo.
It's a fantastic history of what may be the "funnest" peak in Yosemite.
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Dec 18, 2013 - 11:58pm PT
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My favorite was a stick I found at the top of a diorite hill southwest of Pinchot Pass when I was doing the field work for my dissertation. It stuck out of a cairn and was pretty weathered. Readable was A.R. Giraud with a date that was not completely legible but may have been 190x. Alfred Giraud was a sheepherder who came from France around the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote a book, published in 1901, "My first winter in California." He or his brother had the peak in Dusy Basin named after him.
I left the stick where I found it.
Tom
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2013 - 01:40am PT
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This one was also notable for having a relatively recent entry by Steve Roper.
A beer of your choice to the correct answer to "Why didn't I do Lembert Dome instead of this pile?"
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 19, 2013 - 01:54am PT
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I like them...
here's some entries from one, it doesn't matter where it is...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 19, 2013 - 11:11am PT
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Whoever stole the register off Black Kaweah has some majorly bad karma to deal with.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Dec 19, 2013 - 12:38pm PT
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Fair enough KLK. Pitch them in the garbage next time you're there. F*#kers.
not meaning to be cranky, but i've seen the "thebstolemysummitreg" meme in a bunch of different places in the tubez now over the last several years. i should just keep a measured and detailed response on my clipboard.
summit registers are one of those taste things like muscle trucks or light beer or flocking on xmas trees or florida georgia line. you either love them or you don't. my understanding is that the sc originally decided to remove the old registers and put them in the archive because some of them were getting stolen. but there may well have been other drivers, too (there usually are).
i like tom's story about the basque, although his location of it it is a bit specific for my taste. that's the kind of thing that could end up on a mantle in some eastside mcmansion.
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