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Title: Summit Registers
Post by: YETI on March 07, 2013, 12:29:59 pm

What formations have them in SOYO?

A List should be started.

I have some Ammo cans from NAM I can donate.

YETI

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: YETI on March 07, 2013, 03:39:19 pm

Mt Starr King has 2 summit registers. 

Info found here:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1850876&msg=1931792#msg1931792

YETI

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: John on March 08, 2013, 05:31:08 am

I know the Balloon Dome one was wrecked and brought down to be preserved.

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: NateD on March 08, 2013, 01:43:35 pm

This is a good question. A quick search online revealed very little. I wonder if the NF ranger station has a list, although I'm doubtful.

EDIT: It should be noted that the Balloon Dome register was replaced (2 years ago, methinks).

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: John on March 18, 2013, 06:39:30 am

I just learned that there was a register on Hawk Dome (Fresno Dome's sort-of independent summit) at one time with a record of an ascent in 1962. I wonder if it may still be there somewhere.

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: mike a on June 07, 2013, 02:02:05 pm

The Balloon Dome one was at the summit when i was on top in may 18 2013. Did the Bob 5.7 route that climbs from the river to the summit, super fun stuff.

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: daniel banquo merrick on June 07, 2013, 03:28:24 pm

Bob and I took the old, fading and rotting register from Balloon Dome when we did Buffoon Dome 9-2011. We tried to send it to the Sierra Club but couldn't find anybody who wanted it. I think the old registers may have been moved from the SC to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf738nb2br/

After I got it dried out, Bob sent the old register to George Whitmore (FA of the nose on El Cap) who had several entries in it. I don't know what happened to it after that.

I had a small "Rite in the Rain" note pad I left in its place along with a $21 "Tactical Pen" whatever that is. How are they holding up? How many entries?

This guy seems to be he one to talk to:

http://summitregister.org/

Title: Re: Summit Registers
Post by: John on June 07, 2013, 04:37:58 pm

The summitregister.org is interesting.

A tactical pen sounds like a poison dart shoots out or something.