High Sierra Topix

I like having a dedicated winter section like what we have now. Being in the mountains is quite different in winter. It is useful to have winter-related posts separate from other posts. I would be OK with a winter TR forum. The number of winter posts is much lower though.

What will you do with backpacking trip reports now located in the "Winter Sports" catagory, Peter?

Hi Ian,

Winter backpacking trips will stay in the Winter Sports section.

Okay, but I do not like the name "Sports" to go with winter trips. At least in my mind "Winter Sports" sounds like competitive skiing, ice skating, toboggan racing, etc... What we do alone in the winter is to try to immerse ourselves in the place, and it strikes me as more like a long, drawn out meditation than a sport. How about a category called "Winter Trips and Sports?"

I agree. How about Winter Backpacking/Ski Trips and Winter Sports, Ian? I will work on getting it changed.

Trip reports have now been transferred from the "Backpacking" section. I am now adding the section codes from where each trip report starts, which will take some more time; this method was the only way the search feature could differentiate the trip reports by code; abbreviations of the parks and forest did not work in any other variation I tried. This will allow members a quick reference using the search feature for trips starting in a National Park or National Forest; please add these to the beginning of your subject line, followed by TR and the locations visited, dates, and year. Thank you.

Section codes:
R01 - SEKI NP
R02 - Yosemite NP
R03 - Inyo NF
R04 - Sierra NF
R05 - Sequoia NF
R06 - Stanislaus NF
R07 - Tahoe NF
R08 - Toiyabe NF
R09- Eldorado NF
R10 - Plumas NF

If a trip starts in area 00X but the majority of the trip is in area 00Y, which area code should be used?

The starting trailhead.
Once a member picks a NP or NF code, they can choose which report they want to read, based on the title. This makes properly indicating where you visited that much more important. There were dozens of trip reports that you didn’t know what area were visited until you read further into the report. There were others that I didn’t know that it was a trip report because the “Subject” didn’t indicate such.
I tried to use multiple code numbers according to the areas visited, but that confused the “Search” feature, causing a lot more “uncoded” results.
Also, I tried abbreviations but that resulted in an even worse outcome.

Update:
Tomba’s suggestion of replacing the first zero with an R seems to work better, but I need to test it on a larger scale.
If it proves to work, then I will be adding the starting code and the main area visited section code.
For example if you’re going from Onion Valley to Rae Lakes and Sixty Lakes Basin, you would put R03/R01 and for trips that spans over two sections, the starting and ending codes should be added, JMT south bound would be R02/R03.

What are the number codes in front of the "TR" for the post title?

What are the codes, such as R03/R04 or R0 , etc. ??