What happens to all the old trail registers from the shelters on the AT?
I think some of the old ones would make good reading.
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The ones that survive long enough are kept by the maintainers of the section the shelter is in. They usually just gather dust so I am sure your local maintainers will let you look at them. They are a popular pilferage item too unfortunately.
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For the trail registers in the White Mts I believe that the AMC keeps them. At the huts every library has a collection of old registers that go way back. I have seen where hikers have left registers with their mailing address and ask that they be sent to them when full. I have often wondered if that ever happens.
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When I reached Tuolumne meadows & the fantastic campground store after the incredibly difficult Johm Muir Trail part, they let me take the old journal back to my tent & read back to Cindy Ross's entry, I forget what year, but it was hilariously different from what her book described.... so you just never know what you will find in those archives !
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