These pages are FREE, and will always be. But what this site is NOT is a free advertising board for COMMERCIAL SITES. I get tons of requests from the most idiotic and unrelated sites. Also from some very demanding and particularly unsympathetic individuals. As there is no way I will spend any more time at all answering any of these, I can only repeat what I have already put in my DISCLAIMER: No requests for links to commercial sites (camouflaged as “link exchange”) will ever be answered. NO answer is THE answer.

Or what about this: If you are so eager about Link Exchange, then YOU link to ME first, then we can talk… Ha ha ha…

These pages started off in 1997, but their early history is lost in the mists of the early internet. However, from 1999 things started to take form, and archived snapshots also start to appear. The earliest recorded shape of things can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/19990203083828/http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/1744/. Not fully functional of course, but you get the idea.

As previously announced, the old bulletin board can now be considered outdated. News from Islandwalking.com will from now on take a more modern form, as in this weblog.