Sierra Summit Registers - Something is Very Wrong

I recently climbed Middle Palisade and was surprised/disappointed to find no register but a page from a porn magazine taking its place.

I seem to remember reading about this "practice" somewhere, perhaps even MP, but can't recall exactly where.

Does anyone have any info on this? How many peaks, who the culprit is?

Stealing registers is pretty rotten all by itself, as for porn there's a time and a place and personally i don't think it's on the summit of a High Sierra peak.

Thanks.

Does the Sierra Club maintain those registers? Are they ever archived? Was the porn good? (sorry about that last one).

Older registers are collected by the Sierra Club and held at Berkely.

Not good porn. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm thinking that registers are being swapped for porn by someone.

Registers on Sill, Polemonium and Thunderbolt have also been swiped! Catch the thief!

If I recall correctly.the eastern sierra museum has a lot of them

Was there ever a register on Sill? I climbed it last year and couldn't find any evidence of a register or even a can.

The register on University Peak remains unmolested as of this Sunday.

I like porn.

It almost never fails; there's always some toolbag. When i was into Geocaching I built a really nice ammo box cache, filled it with history regarding an old Army airfield the cache was set up next to, lots of caching trinkets, batteries, etc and placed it next to a Dept of Army survey marker from 1940. It was a popular cache and got all sorts of great comments and people even added to it over a year or so until... [(dramatic reverb]).. yep, some twat jacked it.

Don't know how that 'type' of person fits into the whole collective human psyche but it's there, alive and well. Somewhere, there's a closet full of summit registers.. in a house with painted windows and a 20 foot deep pit in the basement with a little basket next to it.

Oh well, it sucks but life goes on.

There was a register on Mount Sill, I signed it a few times.

There's an article in the July 3 LA Times on this subject, it states that the Black Kaweah register has been stolen. Whomever is stealing them is a pretty good peak-bagger.

This sucks because it is also a tool used by search and rescue teams. as recently as last week when micheal ybarra went missing on the saw tooth traverse outside of bridgeport. they checked the summit logs and noticed the peaks he had done then on the next peak he did not sign. it helped in the teams being able to narrow the search. i believe this was the sort of reasoning behind those logs in the first place.

rex parker wrote:This sucks because it is also a tool used by search and rescue teams. as recently as last week when micheal ybarra went missing on the saw tooth traverse outside of bridgeport. they checked the summit logs and noticed the peaks he had done then on the next peak he did not sign. it helped in the teams being able to narrow the search. i believe this was the sort of reasoning behind those logs in the first place.

As of Sunday there was a Gatorade bottle on T-bolt with some paper Sunday; no lid so not sure it will survive the winter. I donated my pen. Pol's box is still there but needs a register/pen.

The Bancroft library at UC Berkeley archives Sierra registers. There's a list of summit register needs referenced here: summitregister.org/

Josh Cameron wrote:What if I find porn inside a summit register on a Sierra peak?