Trip Reports

[jdorje]

Pretty sure the site predates the smartphone. Kids these days! Everyone knows you have to resize your photos before you can upload them to the internet; if you don't then your 56 kbit moden won't get them there before your next trip.

[Jon Frohlich]

Pretty sure the site predates the smartphone. Kids these days! Everyone knows you have to resize your photos before you can upload them to the internet; if you don't then your 56 kbit moden won't get them there before your next trip.

56k? 14.4 was blistering speed back in the day. Of course I'm old enough to have had an Apple IIc as my first computer so....yeah...

[SnowAlien]

Droidly, you should try Summit Post. I hear it's really user friendly. For this site, we honestly can get by without yet another Bierstadt report. I personally think the TR publishing process on 14ers is ridiculously easy (and I have zero IT background). Wouldn't mind seeing it a bit harder, hopefully to clamp down on # of summer Bierstadt/Quandary etc. reports.

[droidly]

Droidly, you should try Summit Post. I hear it's really user friendly. For this site, we honestly can get by without yet another Bierstadt report. I personally think the TR publishing process on 14ers is ridiculously easy (and I have zero IT background). Wouldn't mind seeing it a bit harder, hopefully to clamp down on # of summer Bierstadt/Quandary etc. reports.

Ugh.. "we can get by without yet another Bierstadt report"?! That sickens me. Many people who have have not experienced the beauty and splendor of the Colorado Rockies have benefited from seeing trip reports from people who have summited before them and that encourages them to achieve something they thought they could never do. You must be a child. I am 60 years old with 13 summits and my 80 year old mother-in-law is preparing to summit next season. These reports matter. How dare you trivialize the effort that people have been training to achieve what, in their life, may be the greatest thing they have ever done. Information is essential. You need to take a good look at yourself. BTW this thread is not about Beirstadt or any other peak.

[wineguy]

I'm a technically incompetent geezer and have posted 3 reports, so it can't be too difficult.

[JROSKA]

The worst part of the rant is that the OP was successful in uploading the trip report.

lol. The OP has a little more courage than I would have in that situation. I don't think I'd bother with the TR after a rant like that. I wouldn't want to deal with observing a bunch of people "dislike" my report.

[BillMiddlebrook]

This thread made my morning!

I'll admit the TR edit page needs some updates but, yes, there's an image button on the edit page which inserts the IMG tags on highlighted text. Just like there are buttons for other formatting. You don't have to cut/paste bbcode tags in the report text unless you want to or don't know the buttons are available. As far as the photo text being lost when the file size edits fail, I'll take a look at that.

And, no, I don't need someone else to help me with the site programming. Thanks anyway

[SolarAlex]

get it together bill

[jrbren_vt]

Its been many years since I did a trip report, I did not know you could upload photos at all. I recall I uploaded my photos to a photobucket or webshots type site and did links to them. Does this mean 14ers.com is paying for the server space to store a kazillion photos & videos ? I love this site for the hiking and mountain chatter (even though my time to CO has been way too scant, too many options and too little time off), and a do enjoy a good trip report to a rather "typical" or "unoriginal" climb such as Bierstadt, if well done. If nothing else, a recent TR can tell allot about conditions for someone planning to climb in that region in the near future, saving the need for a "conditions" thread. Thanks to all who makes this site happen.

[d_baker]

It would be nice for those without my particular skill set, to be able to upload an image and have the website do the scaling to the proper size.

I agree, but probably because I want the effort taken away from my part (i.e., I'm lazy).

I posted my first report in about two years over the summer, and I thought the process was not as easy as it used to be (from what I remember), so it did seem to take more time. However, it was a report I wanted to share (and be able to look back at for the memories) so I did what was needed to be done to post it, even linking photos to photobucket.

Shouldn't matter if it's a Bierstadt report, a Pyramid report, or a Lizard Head report, this site allows the sharing of stories and rants and information and inspiration. That's what makes Bills site special.
Comments like

For this site, we honestly can get by without yet another Bierstadt report

are not fair, especially when the poster has a report on Bierstadt.

[Daniel Joder]

Another easy option: Just link to your blog. I know a number of us on this site have blogs and do just that.

[SnowAlien]

I am posting my trip reports on a PC. You have to cut and paste the /img/ tag for each image in a report. I'm just saying that there could be a more efficient way for the user. It's not rocket science. I'm happy to rewrite the code for this site if Bill is willing to contract me. It's not difficult.

To OP: no you don't. There's a far more efficient way for a user, you just haven't figured it out yet.

I think the poster is a troll. 60 y.o. "IT manager" who can't figure out how to upload photos to a website with 457 Bierstadt reports, then finally does (via the long hard way) post a TR that doesn't meet the basic guidelines for a report. He must still be programming in Fortran.