Summit Registers going extinct?

[Jens]

I know it has been discussed on this board before, but why as of late are more folks grabbing summit reigisters and either pitching them off a cliff or just stealing them? I know some of us don't like to sign them but they are important for historical reasons. In the last 2 years a lot of them are disappearing.

[faster_than_you]

Sniff sniff... Better call in an investigator.

[RideT61]

I agree, I hate it when people steal or "dispose" of summit registers. I love being able to look and see the names and dates of climbers who came before me. Personally, I think it is pretty cool when you see Tom Hornbein's, Pete Shoening or Fred Beckey's name in a summit register from a climb that occured years ago.

[Stefan]

If people are chucking them, then they are being quiet about it.

 

The NCNP has stopped taking summit registers. They used to eliminate them if they were found.

 

I know one person who has been putting up registers every time she gets to a new summit or one that deserves one. She amazes me.

[sicprobo]

Hornbein, Shoening, Beckey, .......Klenke!

[Dru]

What about people that write false names in summit registers? I've seen Reinhold Messner and Bono signed in together on a few summits

[chirp]

Going undercover. Alot of summits now have a Geocache someplace on or near the summit. Alot more difficult to find but a record of sorts non the less.

[Mal_Con]

Elvis has signed more than one too.

[magellan]

I've noticed, too. Nothing on Baring the other day. What gives? I'm thinking about packing registers when I go. I like 'em!