[Chris]

in reply to: Spammers #55017

Thanks Tom, I may just do that. I hate having people wait for me to approve them, but I’ve deleted at least 500 fake registrations in the last week so we may have to go that way.

[Chris]

in reply to: Signature problems #55125

Use the “Profile” link at the top of the page.

[Chris]

in reply to: Mount Washington Observatory Web Page – photo and story #55076

Didn’t want this to get lost;

18:39 Sun Sep 11th
photo – see caption below
Raising of the flag

Today the summit was filled with people carrying American flags in honor of those who lost there lives on that horrible day of 9/11/2001. People came from all over to fly there flags and many of them had lost love ones on that day. This morning I was out on the observation deck and met a man who wanted to fly a flag in honor of this friend who’s in Afghanistan right now and is mailing the flag to him.

In addition to the flags that individual people brought up there was also a group called Flags on the 48 Peaks which is a group of of people who get together to make sure there is a flag flown on all 48 of NH 4,000 footers and of course Mount Washington is one of them. We had a boy scout troop come up and put a American flag out on the railing to the observation deck (were you can see it on the obs webcam) and they held a very nice little memorial service.

After the boy scouts had there memorial another group from the Boston Hiking Club and New England Burn Survivors raised a huge flag on top of the summit as seen in the picture above (This look similar to the historic raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi in World War II.) The members of the New England Burn Survivors saw this has a way of showing there support for firefighters many of whom saved their life. Along with the flags flying around the summit there was also a poster memorial as you walked in the state park building of all the firefighters who gave the ultimate sacrifice and gave there lives that day. I found this very touching since my Father is a NJ firefighter who and went to assist in the rescue efforts at 9/11 after the towers had collapsed.

We would like to thank all firefighters, Police, EMS and soldiers for everything you do for our country.

Erin Diveny – Summit Museum Supervisor

[Chris]

in reply to: Confirmation 2011 #55038

I would say we can confirm Waumbek since there are photos in the Gallery. And our team wins the furthest traveled participant. One of our guys came from Brazil.
😀

[Chris]

in reply to: Waumbek #54914

For the guys who signed up for Waumbek, I sent you email but haven’t heard from, we’re planning to meet at the trailhead at 8:15-8:30. Meet us if you can!
:flag:

[Chris]

in reply to: Spammers #55015

I’ve changed the password to the database (to something extremely complicated) in case the spamming is coming from a bot that figured out our old password. Let’s hope that solves the issue, at least temporarily.

[Chris]

in reply to: signup stats #54848

Keep an eye on these forums though, we almost always get people dropping out as the event gets closer. Full coverage now doesn’t necessarily mean full coverage on the day of the event, so anyone looking to grab a peak may still get their chance!
:flag:

[Chris]

in reply to: Peak Traffic #54741

@Sherpa John wrote:

Chris,

Thank you for your thoughtful and open minded response. Much appreciated.

Sj

My pleasure! :beer:

[Chris]

in reply to: 2010 pictures #54745

Hi Laurie,

To set the highlight, you need to go into the relevant album and use the drop down beneath the picture you want to use as the highlight. The last option in the drop down should be “Set as highlight”. I just checked using a test account and this should work for you but let me know if it doesn’t.

[Chris]

in reply to: Wildcat Mt web site #54681

I like this solution a lot. Very simple, respectful and no one has to hire an engineer to modify their flag pole to account for a half mast requirement.
:beer:

[Chris]

in reply to: Peak Traffic #54738

John, I can definitely see your point, I struggle with the sign up process and I really don’t like when people sign up as “Tim, Sally, and our 14 kids”. I’m working on a way to make the sign ups tie into registration for the site so we can limit the multiple-people-one-spot issue. However Brian is right, we can never truly limit the number of people hiking in a group at the event.

[Chris]

in reply to: Wildcat Mt web site #54679

@HikerFedEx wrote:

We wondered that too. I’m sure half mast is more appropriate for true respect. But it would pose serious logistics in some cases – namely the taller masts and wooded summits.

I suppose in theory we could add lightweight weaker mast sections to the top of our poles, to simulate flying our FOT48 at half mast. (For those of us who use a halyard/pulley system we could add a lightweight top section to very briefly raise the flag to full mast, the quickly lower it to the stronger half mast height.

Any thoughts??? 8)

I simply don’t think the half mast rule applies in all cases. It’s just not realistic to hike a flag pole up a mountain and only use half of it. Much like those little flags on sticks that you hold in your hand, are you going to lower them to half mast? I don’t think so.

[Chris]

in reply to: Confirmation: Post Here #54706

I met the crew going up Wildcat too, they took the 19 mile brook. Sorry, I guess I’m bored too. :beer:

[Chris]

in reply to: Confirmation: Post Here #54704

South Carter was handled, I met the crew on my way to Carter Dome…

[Chris]

in reply to: Why does it say 2010 is closed? #54479

Hey Tom,

They probably haven’t checked in a while, this was just fixed 20 min ago.

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