Stolen/missing summit registers.....

[JasonG]

Anyone else noticing this the past few years? 

It seems like you used to see some very old registers even on relatively popular peaks.  Nowadays, most of the old brass Mountaineers registers are long gone and even the crappy plastic newer ones don't seem to last more than a year or two.  I suspect someone with a beef is removing/stealing/tossing them, but does anyone know for sure what is going on?  I have to think someone has heard/seen something, but I haven't personally.

Maybe I am one of the few that care, but I miss reading the entries from friends who are no longer with us....

Can't wait to see if this gets moved to Spray like the old dayz!

[JasonG]

[JasonG]

[olyclimber]

That sucks…especially those old brass Mountie registers. Is it possible the Mounties are retrieving them themselves? But probably not unless the replace it with a modern container…

[olyclimber]

https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/registers-canisters-a-grand-northwest-tradition
 

hopefully people are replacing the actual register rather than taking to container down…

I mean I think they are cool.  Sometimes you see notable names in them, or a name of a now deceased climber of note.

[dberdinka]

BITD I climbed Castle Peak in the Pasayten a couple months apart and  the old brass mountaineers summit register had disappeared in the interim.    Only takes one very active peak bagger with an excessive ego to make them all disappear in short order.

[JasonG]

I sadly think you are right.  There was at least one other version of the old brass ones (than the one already posted)....I will see if I can find it.

[JasonG]

10 hours ago, olyclimber said:

https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/registers-canisters-a-grand-northwest-tradition

Interesting....I somehow thought most of these were much older!

[sepultura]

This is something that really pisses me off. Someone has decide to just erase history by taking or destroying a very long endeavoring part of the summit experience. I can imagine that these people are either collecting them for personal gratification or considering them to be trash left in a pristine environment. Whatever the motive it’s not up for you to decide, and if you feel otherwise please enlighten us with your opinion, or be the skulking coward you have been thus far.

trying to recall summits I have visited recently where registers were and are now not:

Benzarino, Hinkhouse, Stiletto, Ballard. And from what I understand many more.

Perhaps we can come together and figure this one out. Curious if whomever is responsible is posting up on Peakbagger and and a little combined detective work amongst us can sort this out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JasonG]

Summit of Bears Breast:

[JasonG]

[JasonG]

Ah, I knew I had a photo of one of the really old ones:

[JasonG]