[Matt]

Okay, I return to my original belief that one forum for trip reports is enough. Maybe even too many, PiB's list of types of trips, however, seems incomplete. What about all the various categories of bushwhacking? And should Quark be on there somewhere?

[Secret Beta 007]

[Magellan]

Quark does deserve her own forum, whatever she is posting about. Crosscut saws, flowers, her lousy friends, etc. I for one am glad that supermen like Tom post this Picket TR for us mere mortals to read.

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[Tazz]

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[Tom]

[rossb]

I read the trip reports looking for three things: 1) Snow levels or flower information 2) Specific trail information 3) An interesting story or nice pictures The weird thing is, 1 and 3 often conflict. If I have a specific hike in mind, I'll start by looking for that trail in particular (by searching). If I don't have anything for this year, I'll look through the reports and try to find snow levels for that area. The thing is, a long (and sometimes interesting) report often gets in the way of gathering snow or flower information. I would like to see a new section dedicated to just that. People would put in very terse information and then maybe refer back to their larger report. For example: [Something Mountain Trail]: Patchy snow starting at 4,000 feet. Solid at 4,400 feet except bare patches on exposed ridges (including top, at 6,000). More info at www.nwhikers.net/... or maybe: [Pretty Meadows Trail]: Snow is patchy. Avalanche Lilies are out, but other flowers are yet to bloom. I think this information would be extremely helpful to me, while still retaining the fun and diversity of all the great reports. Of course, this information would be rough (I would imagine the terse flower reports would be very rough) but it would still be helpful.

[jasonracey]

I was out on the trail yesterday reflecting on what lame thread this is. Not the responses so much as the attitude of the poster that started it. There should only be 1 TR forum. What I read in the original post is that someone is envious of other people getting to do epic climbs. Hey, if it bothers you that much don't read the TR! Or go the Partners/Trips forum and organize the same trip and write your report when you get back.

[touron]

How about all sasquatch reports go in one area. We could call it the Banana Split!

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[joker]

Keep it simple [fill in the blank]. And remember to heap praise on reports that exhibit the qualities you would like to see more of, including nice writing about a mellow but broadly accessible route. Operant conditioning tends to work! (he said, now almost feeling bad about posting on a snowy trip up Vesper that included some steep snow travel from this weekend but not yet getting to that intended post about the prior weekend's lovely and casual hike up Iron which was full of wonderful flowers - due to work getting in the way of the time to process those flower pics I'd like to share...)

[Layback]

I thought this thread was dead. I can't believe I even clicked on it. Talk about a waste of text.

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[wildernessed]