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PostWed Mar 08, 2017 2:12 pm 
The Mountaineers are wondering which peaks still have this type of register container on them. This question originated from these Mountaineers posts on Instagram and Facebook The list of peaks that was here was removed by the OP after about a month of gathering a few additions. It's prudent to not leave the list here long term to extend the life of the remaining registers.

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PostWed Mar 08, 2017 2:14 pm 
Phelps, North Fork
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PostWed Mar 08, 2017 6:05 pm 
I remember that the one on Phelps has no cap. Is there any way to get another one?

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PostThu Mar 09, 2017 4:41 pm 
probably a bad thread given the nature of register removal by the register nazis...

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PostSun Apr 30, 2017 5:29 pm 
iron wrote:
probably a bad thread given the nature of register removal by the register nazis...
Let them go try to get the one off Garfield: Beckey, master of understatement ("scramble up an easy gully") called Garfield "a hazardous enigma". Bizarre to me how obscure, nearly invisible summit registers are targets but that eyesore, two-placard, self-aggrandizing monstrosity on Mailbox is still there.

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PostSun Apr 30, 2017 7:40 pm 
The registers on the volcanoes used to be large hardbound ledgers in big bronze boxes. It's been many years since I've seen one of those.

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PostThu May 11, 2017 4:48 pm 
Those Mountaineers registers were old school, cast alloy, some sorta bronze I think, although I'm not certain. I wonder if the mold is still around.
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The registers on the volcanoes used to be large hardbound ledgers in big bronze boxes.
The boxes I've seen were placed by the Mazamas and were also some sort of cast alloy. Whomever lugged those things to the summits descended with a considerably lighter load. My most recent recollection seeing a Mazama box was on the summit of Olympus in the early 1990s.

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PostThu May 11, 2017 6:20 pm 
cascadeclimber wrote:
but that eyesore, two-placard, self-aggrandizing monstrosity on Mailbox is still there.
I believe the "mailbox" has been replaced many times -- whether it was removed by winter weather, trophy seekers or "cleaner uppers".

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PostSat May 27, 2017 2:03 pm 
Silver Peak, August 1939

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PostMon May 29, 2017 6:43 pm 
RandyHiker wrote:
cascadeclimber wrote:
but that eyesore, two-placard, self-aggrandizing monstrosity on Mailbox is still there.
I believe the "mailbox" has been replaced many times -- whether it was removed by winter weather, trophy seekers or "cleaner uppers".
I've no problem with the mailbox, as it existed for decades. It's what's been done by the people who built the new trail to pat themselves on the back, a rock and concrete erection with not one, but two glued-on signs, that seems entirely unnecessary and over the top. Back on topic, there are still Mazamas boxes around. I visited the location of one this weekend.

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PostFri Jun 23, 2017 12:02 am 
An article titled "Registers and Canisters: A Grand Northwest Tradition" appears on page 34 in the Summer 2017 issue of "Mountaineer" magazine. This thread was part of the research for that article, which could have been 3 times as long with all the interesting info we dug up.

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PostSat Jun 24, 2017 10:47 pm 
July 21, 1972 ...and so it begins.
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Summit of St Helens. The 9677' version. Rented ice-axe and crampons. I'm wearing a barely adequate Sportscaster ski-jacket. The Mazama metal-box register is visible at lower right. Where do you suppose is it now?

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PostWed Dec 20, 2017 9:48 am 
DIYSteve wrote:
The boxes I've seen were placed by the Mazamas and were also some sort of cast alloy. Whomever lugged those things to the summits descended with a considerably lighter load. My most recent recollection seeing a Mazama box was on the summit of Olympus in the early 1990s.
There is one of these Mazama boxes on the summit of Boston.

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PostWed Dec 20, 2017 11:56 pm 
Also on glacier peak

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PostFri Dec 29, 2017 8:34 am 
And on Rainier, in the summit crater on the north side.

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