Lowell_Skoog Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Northwest Mountaineering Journal, Issue 1, Summer 2004 The premiere issue of the Northwest Mountaineering Journal is now available on the web. See: http://www.nwmj.org This issue covers new climbing routes, first winter ascents, first ski descents, and pioneering traverses in the Cascades. It contains historical articles about crag, alpine and big wall rock climbing, guiding, and ski mountaineering. It also contains profiles of Northwest mountaineers and highlights from Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Parks. In short, it's a good example of what we hope will be an annual publication about all aspects of mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest. I'd like to thank everyone who contributed photos, stories, and information for this issue. I'd also like to thank the great team of volunteers who edited the journal and the folks at CascadeClimbers.com and the The Mountaineers who provided invaluable support. We hope you enjoy this issue and will begin looking forward to the next one. The 2004 Northwest Mountaineering Journal Team Ralph Bodenner Steve Firebaugh Paul Klenke Alex Krawarik Matt Perkins Gordy Skoog Lowell Skoog Gary Yngve Quote
olyclimber Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Great work. I only wish it came in print! Here is to your first issue and the work that went into it... Quote
Dr_Crash Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Very nice! Online magazines rock (skiers / riders, see http://www.aspectjournal.com/ for a different thing---fiction mostly). Congratulations on Issue 1, and here's to more issues! drC Quote
jordop Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 That is fukinn rad I like the Alpinist-style layout, font and clarity. Way to go. Gonna suck up a printer cartridge though Quote
willstrickland Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Looks fantastic! Very impressive layout, photos, & breadth of content. Congrats on a fine first issue. Quote
Blakej Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Thanks for adding some spice to a slow day at work. Great site. Will this be an anual thing. Seems like most of the Featured climbs are recent. Quote
dberdinka Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 It's great to see history on so many aspects of the sport and individuals. That's an element of NW climbing that has been keenly missing. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next "issue". Quote
AllYouCanEat Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 Very Awesome! What I especially like is the lack of banners and excess. Simple is good. Here's to future versions ... Quote
chris Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 This is great! Is there anyway to offer it as a PDF, so I can read it in the evening and not only when I have access to the 'net? Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 mtnfreak, the issue with offering it as a PDF is the layout would have to be redone entirely to offer the same quality product, which as you might imagine, would be quite a bit of work. If there are a lot of requests for a PDF version for future editions, we'll certainly consider it. olyclimber, in an ideal world, we would have a print version too -- but that costs money (as well as time). And we are striving to keep the goal of no advertising. blakej, the plan is to have it be an annual thing! In addition to the volunteer effort by the editors, that means we also need people climbing exciting stuff, as well as sending us submissions for historical, biographical, etc., pieces. Quote
MisterMo Posted July 21, 2004 Posted July 21, 2004 Great job by all. A very nice piece of work. Looking forward to the next. Quote
sk Posted July 21, 2004 Posted July 21, 2004 Great job by all. A very nice piece of work. Looking forward to the next. I just added that to my faves list. I can't wait to read it all AWSOME WORK!! Quote
forrest_m Posted July 21, 2004 Posted July 21, 2004 Very nice. Thanks for all the hard work. On the PDF question, I have a question for you. You've probably hashed this all out in great detail already, so feel free to ignore my comments below. Are you doing the layout directly in a web-editing program (dreamweaver, frontpage)? Or in a print-oriented layout program (indesign, quark)? Because if you were to use the latter, it would simplify the web/pdf question. Most higher end layout programs these days make it simple to export in BOTH pdf and html formats, (including linking directly to both low and high resolution images for the respective format, etc). You can then add navigation elements as required to the html pages. The extra time this takes is more than made up for by the time you save using a layout program's more sophisticated style sheets, etc. Just a thought, since it doesn't appear to me that you are doing much "web only" type stuff (flash animations, interactive or user-input driven content, etc), rather you are already basically using a print journal paradigm and just using the web for distribution. Quote
layton Posted July 21, 2004 Posted July 21, 2004 I am grateful to all those who put in the hours. This thing is classy! Quote
assmonkey Posted July 21, 2004 Posted July 21, 2004 Ok, wow, HOLY CRAP! Kudos to all. It's this kind of thing that's going to make the PNW a destination living area for adrenaline junkies (yeah, yeah, it already is, but still). You guys have produced a high-quality magazine. I would pay money to receive a print version. I urge you to consider doing a high-quality print version ($30, $45 a copy? I bet people would be willing to pay it: I would). The Harder article alone is worth that. Thanks guys! - a s s m * n k e y Quote
SEF Posted July 22, 2004 Posted July 22, 2004 I want to thank everyone for all of the very positive praise that we’ve received on our first-issue-effort, both on this forum and privately. I’m amazed. We could not have done the journal without the fine material that came to us. As much as we do our best to polish words, optimize pictures and make appealing web pages, if the material lacks real content, you can’t engage critical readers. I think we need to make sure substantial thanks to go those who made the content—the contributing climbers. Those of us who made the journal are recorders and messengers of the message, but are mostly (Lowell, of course, was a significant creator of content) not the message. With no message, what would we have? I join Gary, Lowell and the rest of the editors in encouraging you all to contribute or to continue to contribute the landmark stories that we seek to include. We are nothing without you. Quote
billcoe Posted July 22, 2004 Posted July 22, 2004 You guys did an awesome job: thanks for sharing. I particularly like seeing that old folks I know are still cranking: Wayne Wallace and John Petrosky come to mind. Hadn't seen John for probably some 20+ years, anyone sees him say hi for me. My palms were sweating in a couple of places. Reading Waynes piece on Logan knowing that by the time it have gotten a "little dicey" for Wayne I probably would have already Pissed and shit all over my self in fear was one of them. The content and layout are first class throughout, great work fellas. Quote
Ade Posted July 22, 2004 Posted July 22, 2004 This is great! Some of the requests for a paper version set me thinking... Why does everyone want a paper version? As an insurance policy against the Mountaineers dropping the project and the information being lost? Do people really want a PDF version or just something more printable, like a single web page version of each edition that's easier to print? Great job... Ade Quote
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