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Re: Summit Registers

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Kiefer wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:11 pm And yes, while summit registers on 14ers (or I suppose any peak really) can seem moot, they are used in emergency situations, situation dependent.
Yes. And also trailhead registers. They not only help the USFS determine user numbers and summit registers for CMC, but both can and have helped SAR determine someone's plans and destination or at least Last Point Known.
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So a box stuffed with scraps of paper SHOULD be replaced with a notebook. And the CMC does not want that stuff mailed to them.

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CaptCO wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:22 pm
Wentzl wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:17 pm So a box stuffed with scraps of paper SHOULD be replaced with a notebook. And the CMC does not want that stuff mailed to them.

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Is the estimate on 14er finishers still over 3,000+?
The estimate was 10k+ 5 years ago...
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Kiefer wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:11 pm Jeff, your comment only makes me more sure of my decision many, many years ago as being the correct one that I posted on FB. 8)
While I certainly don't have a strong opinion about the event you're referencing ( :wink: ), I should clarify my previous statement. The summit records are "stored in our basement," but that's not to say they're forgotten or entirely useless. It's fairly common for hikers or family members to try to track down old registers. I've even fielded such calls and emails from a few people on this site who love to bag on the CMC. :lol: It's always cool when we're able to connect someone with their deceased grandfather's signature from Crestone Needle in 1962. And, at some point, if the CMC or a journalist or the American Mountaineering Museum or whomever wanted to do more with the registers, it's obviously beneficial to have as many as possible stored safely in a single location.
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Hold up, I don't recall ever asking you about registers.
SurfNTurf wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:33 am ...I've even fielded such calls and emails from a few people on this site who love to bag on the CMC....
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Well, I am dusting off this thread because today I went up and took out the trash on Sneffels. I did leave the ammo box with a summit log and a new pen.

Here is what I brought down. Anyone want it?
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Wow. Thanks for hauling that off the mountain Wentzl
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lol, I remember saying on Sneffels, "why tf is there so much random crap in this summit register?"

In California, old summit registers are archived in UC Berkeley's library: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf738nb2br/
Summitregister.org is dedicated to maintaining/replacing these registers.

So, start storing filled summit registers at UC Boulder? Not from 14ers though... the stacks would overfill in a summer..
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I believe the American Alpine Club has a digital archive collection. They could add digital copies of the stored registers there.
https://americanalpineclub.org/library- ... e-archives
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I found a CMC register in a copper tube noting elevation, date (1944), etc. on an obscure Gore 12er, that looked like it hadn't been touched since it was placed under a boulder on the summit. It even had the name of its relative location, which I had no idea it had been named at that time, yet there it was. It also had dirt filling one end. Kinda cool to find a piece of history in mountains so close to home.
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Makbrad wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:12 am I believe the American Alpine Club has a digital archive collection. They could add digital copies of the stored registers there.
https://americanalpineclub.org/library- ... e-archives
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