[pct-l] ID your gear

Tortoise Tortoise73 at charter.net
Sun Aug 29 22:34:25 CDT 2010


Good idea, but if someone found your lost memory card, would they & could 
they find that file?
Technology has its limits. I don't have a better idea for labeling your 
cards though.

Tortoise

<> Because truth matters! <>

On 08/29/10 19:40, Richard Woods wrote:
> I saved a small text file on each of my SD cards for my camera. Has
> all contact info., takes almost no space, since it is not an image
> file it never gets deleted.
> sparksrick
>
> On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:12 PM, CHUCK CHELIN wrote:
>
> Good evening, Tortoise,
>
>
> I put return-address labels on my camera and on my little GPS but it
> didn’t
> occur to me to put them on the poles as well.  I’ll have to do that.
>
>
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
>
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>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Tortoise<Tortoise73 at charter.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Good idea about the mailing labels. One could add email and/or fone
>> numbers. might expedite return. then I think just going over the
>> label with
>> some clear plastic tape to protect the label. very small added weight.
>>
>> Tortoise
>>
>> <>  Because truth matters!<>
>>
>> On 08/29/10 13:45, Don Billings wrote:
>>> I've done the same thing with some duct tape but I suspect it will
>>> need
>> to be
>>> replaced at least once yearly or maybe
>>> more. Tape always seems to get wildly uncooperative after it ages and
>> especially
>>> in direct sun. I used the clear
>>> style duct tape since it looked a little less industrial.
>>>
>>> As for your poles, might I suggest placing standard style return
>>> address
>> labels
>>> on each pole? If you lose them&   you're
>>> lucky, an honest person might come along&   return them to you. I get
>> address
>>> labels through mass marketers all the time
>>> so they just pile up but they're free. Or, use an label maker which
>>> might
>> use
>>> better, more rugged paper.
>>>
>>> Don
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