Opinions About Routes Etiquette

[trailhound]

All of the routes in Digonnet's book and on panamintcity.com are on public land. They are free to be visited and written up by anybody. The first visitors to most of these sites were the early miners who combed the park for minerals. I don't see that there is any obligation to cite someone as having done a prior write up. In my own reports, I sometimes cite a guidebook or web site in case someone wants complete documentation on routes, GPS co-ordinates, and so forth. Michel Digonnet and Steve Hall obviously expected that people would use their information to hike the same places that they did.