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> Between January and April 2009, 12,779 images representing over 18,000 Appalachian Trail hikers were carefully removed from old notebooks, barcoded, scanned a
by thepuppet33r 2y ago
> Between January and April 2009, 12,779 images representing over 18,000 Appalachian Trail hikers were carefully removed from old notebooks, barcoded, scanned at 600 dpi, and placed into archival quality sleeves and slip-covered albums. The entire process took sixteen volunteers over 425 hours to complete.
Quite the effort! Always fun to see people come together for stuff like this.
They mention difficulty in trying to figure out names, dates, trail names, etc. I realized I'm so used to the ubiquitousness of social media and cell phones because my immediate thought was, "Why did these people not put down their numbers?"
- thepuppet33r 2y agoI wonder if this could add clues to the handful of people who go missing on the trail.
- ahepp 2y agoThere is a separate project (now also managed by the AT Museum) called the hiker yearbook, which collects phone numbers and emails along with pictures. It looks like the first one may have been published in 2014.