October, October, October !!! Ski Streak may stall at 144

[TonyC]

Yes he was, lot of pics on Facebook, I can't get them to show up here.

 

[MadPatSki]

@MadPatSki were you successful?

Yes I was. I got #145 and #146.

Oct 31: A-Basin
Nov 1: Loveland
Nov 2: A-Basin
Nov 3: Loveland

The streak is secured until Dec 31, but I won't wait until then to ski again.

 

[Philpug]

Yes I was. I got #145 and #146.

Oct 31: A-Basin
Nov 1: Loveland
Nov 2: A-Basin
Nov 3: Loveland

The streak is secured until Dec 31, but I won't wait until then to ski again.

It took you over a week to tell us? Bad form. :rules:

 

[MadPatSki]

It took you over a week to tell us? Bad form. :rules:

TonyC did.

Trying to catch up since then.

Nov 4: Arrived in Ottawa at 2am + youngest daughter's 15th bday + dryland training at Edelweiss with the club's kids
Nov 5-7: Montréal to take care of "landlord" business.
Nov 8: NCO ski team auction.

 

[Tricia]

Yes he was, lot of pics on Facebook, I can't get them to show up here.

That usually has to do with security settings of the person who posted the picture.

 

[TonyC]

It took you over a week to tell us? Bad form. :rules:

Better get used to that. We're still waiting for some of Pat's more interesting South America reports from summers past.

Pat's blog is here: https://madpatski.wordpress.com/

About a decade ago Pat created that blog and posted most TR's there, including some retroactive catch-ups. I was critical, arguing that TR's will get much more viewership and feedback on a widely viewed forum. After what happened to Epic, I retract that criticism. The bottom line is that if you want your content preserved, you need to have a backup under your direct control.

After the Epic debacle, I ran the HTTrack program (recommended during the 2-week Epic shutdown period) to download all my online TR's. It would take a lot of work to reload those online in a presentable format. But at least the content (and make sure you get your pictures too, potentially trickier) is now on my computer so I can undertake that project if necessary.

 

[dbostedo]

After the Epic debacle, I ran the HTTrack program (recommended during the 2-week Epic shutdown period) to download all my online TR's. It would take a lot of work to reload those online in a presentable format. But at least the content (and make sure you get your pictures too, potentially trickier) is now on my computer so I can undertake that project if necessary.

Sorry to continue this into thread hijack territory, but I too saved my trip reports in a couple of different forms. Perhaps we could have a thread figuring out the best way to get them all posted here? Is there a thread already?

 

[TonyC]

I'm all ears on the hijacked subject. I had test downloaded a few TR's before the Epic shutdown, very slow process. So I was pleased to find out about HTTrack. HTTrack gives you a lot of extraneous stuff in the download, but it provides an index so you can find what's important. It also downloads pictures into a separate directory. In terms of creating a new TR on one's own computer, there's some work but not nearly as much as with the manual downloads.

If you create a clean report on your computer, uploading to one's own website should be straightforward, though I haven't tested that yet. Uploading here would take more time. The obvious difference is that TR's would be uploaded one-by-one rather than as a batch. The major sticking point as with the downloading is how to handle pictures. If you have multiple reports and lots of pics, uploading pics one at a time becomes tedious very fast.

I agree with dbostedo that this topic should be split out. Perhaps a general discussion of migrating archived Epic content would draw some interest. My personal efforts will be more along the lines of what MadPatSki has done.

 

[TonyC]

I've pushed the process described above along a little: http://bestsnow.net/TRsFTO/triprpts.htm