[at-l] Mish-mash...FireFly

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

The tip of taking pics of a journal page at the end of Daniel's post
below triggered a question I've been stewing over for a while.  Lots of
us write lots of "memories" in the various trail shelter registers, but
we never get to have a record of that . . . has anyone thought of a way
to recover these memories?  Has anyone ever photographed all their
register entries, or written to each trail club for a copy of the
journal covering the time they were passing through, or something else
weird that I've not thought of?  I did get to replace a register at a
shelter in Virginia, and before sending it on to the PATC, I had every
page copied so I would have a copy of one shelter register from my AT
hike.  I also did photograph one long register entry I'd made at the
last shelter before exiting north out of Virginia, and I kinda like
being able to re-read it now - the pic came out pretty well.  What
experiences do others have on whether there is any way to recover copies
of one's various shelter register entries?  Hmm, late thought - how
about that old fashioned carbon paper??

Thru-Thinker



Daniel Berlinger wrote:
> 
> > my solution was to turn date on for first and last shots on each roll
> > only
> >
> > Bob Cummings wrote:
> > >
> > > "...I wonder what other non-professionals think about the date feature?"
> > >
> > >  I keep the date featured turned off on my camera for all the reasons cited by
> > >  Chase. My wife keeps turning it back on.
> > >
> > >  But as time passes and my memory of hike details lessen, I increasing have
> > >  difficulty figuring out when and where some of my nearly 3,000 hike slides
> > were
> > >  taken.
> > >
> > >  I had worked out a system with the processor for numbering each roll, but
> > some
> > >  got mixed up in the end of hike confusion.
> 
> Which is why the pros often shoot "card" shots along the way. That is, a picture of a card with pertinent information writen there upon. They generally can't be screwed up by the processor as they are part of the roll, and you can determine what information makes sense at that moment etc.
> 
> The question is, how do you as a hiker keep the weight of all those cards to a minimum? :)
> 
> If you keep a journal, you might want to make an entry into the journal and then take a picture of that...
> 
> It's a lot less costly than having a great picture and no recollection of where it is or when it was... or who those scruffy looking hikers were...
> 
> d.
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