The Mazamas mountaineering organization of Portland, Oregon, which was
founded on top of Mt. Hood in 1894, started placing and collecting logbooks
on peaks in the Cascades in the late 19th century. They continued doing so
until the early 1980s, and some logbooks still continue to trickle into
their archives and are added to their extensive Summit Register collection.
Some from Mt. Hood even predate the Mazamas founding in the form of scraps
of paper, calling cards, even photographs. For those interested in
mountaineering history, the Mazamas is the oldest mountaineering
organization in the nation that requires a climb of a glaciated peak for
membership. The Sierra Club is slightly older but has never had such a
requirement for membership. The Seattle Mountaineers was spun off from the
Mazamas more than a decade after its founding. The Mazamas has an extensive
archives on mountaineering history in the Northwest, as well as materials on
expeditions to peaks around the world. The organization is currently
renovating a building in Portland as a mountaineering center that will
include a research center and museum exhibits (the group also has an
extensive collection of mountaineering gear).
Jeff Thomas has been processing the Summit Registers and can be contacted at
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(Sharon Howe, consulting archivist with the Mazamas)
Sharon M. Howe, Processing Archivist
Washington State Archives Central Branch
Bledsoe-Washington Building
400 E. University Way MS7547
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7547
Phone: 509-963-2136
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From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Roy Webb
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:56 AM
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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
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