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by cougar » Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:53 am
I've found many Mike Garratt registers on obscure peaks, a lot have been there a while. I found one Saturday dating back to 1999, and he signed it twice, noting his repeat visit. I found one or two placed by Gerry Roach going back almost as far. Also have seen the aforementioned famous names together in many registers.
Other neat ones are the cast metal NPS tubes with "NPS" stamped on them I've seen on a couple remote 12er summits in RMNP.
They seem to be gone from 14ers, understandably. Fun to still see them on 13ers but they tend to not hold up. I've seen a lot of tubes with smashed endcaps and wet pages or nothing inside, but still anchored with the cable. Longs has a big 4 foot steel pipe but didn't see anything in it except a rope.
Somehow other bigger western peaks and state highpoints big and small have big registers, mailboxes or ammo canisters, and these seem to be maintained with fresh notebooks. I even found socks in the one on Humphreys Peak. The big ones are cool, covered with different decals. I also liked the photo stash on 8er Palisade, which has labeled pictures of all the peaks and landmarks you can see from the summit. Big diary books in the one on Pisgah above Idaho Springs.
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