[at-l] recent posts re trail registers - and a p.s. re the NC AT Special License Plate Project

[icw at esisnet.com (Clark Wright)]

That sounds like a great idea - and wouldn't it also be great to have 
all of those hundreds of ADK registers also preserved and web-accessible! :)

thru-thinker

Jim Bullard wrote:

> At 10:14 PM 3/18/2005 -0500, Clark Wright wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that we all ought to make an effort to preserve more 
>> trail registers in digital form, online . . . if all of us 
>> techno-savvy hikers would take this on, we ought to be able to figure 
>> out how to have all full registers mailed first to someone for 
>> scanning, and then to the local hiking club, or maybe contact each 
>> local club and ask them to forward a batch to various folks for 
>> scanning, after which we could put together a killer register history 
>> website, and/or make it part of the ATC's library and history efforts??
>
>
> It is not digital and not AT but ADK is on the verge of publishing a 
> book about shelter registers. It will consist of excerpts from 
> registers collected from all over the Adirondacks by ADK. The excerpts 
> are arranged in chapter by category with commentary by the 
> editor/author who selected them all from hundreds of registers.
>
>
>



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