Why put trip reports on the web?

These trip reports originated from emails that I used to send to a bunch of my friends. After some years of this, one of my friends suggested we could make a fun HMC journal article by piecing together some of the emails. However, I had not saved copies of the emails. It turns out that Joel and John had saved copies, though. They sent me their mail files and I separated them out and added titles. I thought it made a good low-tech diary of weekend climbing, and it was fun to look back on some of the days in the past.

At about this time, my weekend climbs were getting increasingly unimpressive, and I did not feel like sending emails when the climbing was routine/boring. So I stopped sending mass emails and just added reports to the page instead.

Mainly I use the trip reports to help me remember the last time I climbed with a partner, or the last time I went to an area or did a particular climb. It gets hard to keep track of all those weekends. It is publicly accessible so my friends can check in and see what I've been doing (and maybe assess if I'm in shape for a climbing visit).

It is not intended to make a claim that I'm a great climber (or even better than average). I've had my high points and low points.