I heard from the folks at Guadalupe National Park. The peak's log books are kept permanently in their library in the Visitor's Center. It's interesting that Roy has digitized the logs he acquired. The other hiker hoped they would be digitized and put on the web. Thanks for everyone who replied. Sarah -----Original Message----- From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roy Webb Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:56 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Logbooks in National Parks "While hiking on Guadalupe Peak last week, a fellow hiker asked me what the National Park Service does with the log book at the top of the mountain. Does anyone know the retention of these log books and where they are stored? " There was an article about this in the Sierra Club magazine a couple of years ago, about the ones on top of the peaks in the Sierras. They had signatures from Royal Robbins, David Brower, many other famous (in that world) mountaineers, but they were disappearing so the Sierra Club (I think; memory is hazy on this) had started to take them down and deposit them with their archives in Berkeley. I don't know if SIERRA is available on their website but I do remember the article because I wrote them to say that we had logbooks (which is hardly the term for slips of paper, menus, little notebooks, etc) that had once been in Music Temple in Glen Canyon. When Lake Powell started to fill in, river runners took the logs from there and they eventually ended up in our archives. Acting on a sudden inspiration, I had them digitized and we posted them on our website at: http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/musictemple/index.html You can browse or search them; it's a great donor relations tool, when someone talks to me about Glen Canyon I always ask if they stopped in Music Temple, and nine times out of ten they can find their names. In a similar vein, the logbooks for Rainbow Bridge, which go back to the 19-teens, I think, are held by the NPS at the Glen Canyon NRA HQ in Wahweap, Arizona. Roy Webb, C.A. Multimedia Archivist Special Collections J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 office: (801) 585-3073 FAX: (801) 585-3976 [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>