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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Dec 25, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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Last summer I drove all the way from Flagstaff to Hualapai when I realized that I'd left my Mythos sitting on a boulder to dry in the campsite we'd stayed in the night before. I was just getting ready for a solid month of climbing, and couldn't stand to loose a fresh Barry's resole and start breaking in new Sliptivas.
I raged the 2 hrs. back to my site (then 2 more back to Flag). I found them sitting nicely placed by the garbage. The camp host was kind enough to leave them where we could return for them, but had them ready to go in case we didn't.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Dec 25, 2009 - 12:25pm PT
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Shoes have a way of being left behind it seems.
I left my approach shoes next to my car in the Buttermilk. It was a warm day so I switched to flip flops and forgot to put my shoes in the car.
The next day, when I went to put them on, uh-oh, I realized what I had done.
The really bad part is that my custom insoles, that I rely on to keep my knees sound, were in those shoes. Yikes!
There had been a ton of people around that weekend, and I was not confident that the pad people had enough sense to just leave something like that behind for the owner to retrieve. My bad, they were propped up on a bush so they could be easily seen, not 2 feet from where I left them.
My non-climbing friends were amazed, and I felt bad for doubting........
Climbers really are a great bunch o' folks!
Merry Christmas all, now get out and go skiing!
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Dec 25, 2009 - 12:55pm PT
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Has anyone else left gear in a totally obvious place and re-found it?
Do you have to refind it in the same place?
We got off route and left a cam on a route in a totally obvious place (we were racing darkness and it would have taken some simple, but time consuming, gyrations to lower out and recover it). A year later I'm hanging out on the Nabisco ledge and I see it on another climber's harness (I had noticed it was the only cam on his rack that had been reslung with a longer sling). After I surprised him by telling him where he had found it, he offered to give it back, but I figured it was his booty (if he had been the middle aged guy and I had been the starving student I might have taken him up on it).
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Dec 25, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
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I took off my favorite tshirt to jump in tenaya lake 2 summers ago. must have put it on the bumper, because I couldn't find it on the way down to temple crag. Went to TC, did the route, came back through tuolumne and found my shirt hanging on one of those snow measuring poles where we had parked. It got rained on a couple times, but no biggie.
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tooth
Trad climber
The Best Place On Earth
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Dec 25, 2009 - 01:54pm PT
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My girlfriend's shirt blew away at the top of the Vampire. Found it near the top of whoodunit the next week. Couldn't believe it was stuck on a rock all week, in the wind, on a popular moderate route.
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Dec 25, 2009 - 02:04pm PT
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I like all these stories :)
I hope to recover a years-lost camera and memory card at some point...
It's probably in a place that not many would happen across :)
Merry Christmas and Happy Krishanukkwanza!
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Dec 25, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
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Not exactly the question, but I found a nice digital camera in the woods near "Nowhere Man" (Column cragging area). I turned it on, and the first pic on it was of one of my best friends.
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Ropeboy
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 25, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
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I lost my precious red swiss army knife on a climb at Lovers Leap. Weeks later, at the bottom of a different route, I found a different one. In a flash of insight I realized that was one knife I would never lose. The new one you can get at the store is unchanged from the knife you had twenty years ago. That's just friggin' magic to me.
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CascadeOtto
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 25, 2009 - 04:26pm PT
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The first time we reached the top of our route Slab Daddy on Squire Creek Wall, I had taken an odd slanting line on the last pitch and belayed off a tree. The second time we went up we wanted to straighten the line, so I followed some good cracks and placed two of my partner's hand-sized cams for the belay. My partners jugged up, we celebrated, drilled the anchor bolts, and descended. Time passed and saw several return trips to the wall, making improvements and cleaning up, each time Dave asking, "Have you seen my #3 Camalot?" He'd searched his home, I'd searched through my gear and called our partner to do the same. No cam.
On our last trip of the year, to the top with the route complete, we found the two cams still firmly placed where they'd been jugged on. In the excitement of having finished the route, I'd untied the rope and forgotten to pull the cams. Nobody else had been there to find them.
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snaps10
Mountain climber
Visalia, CA
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Dec 25, 2009 - 05:00pm PT
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I lost my digital camera on a hunt up on our property. Two years, almost to the day, later I found that digital camera in the plastic bag I was carrying it in. Turned it on and took pictures for about 5 minutes before the old batteries crapped out. The camera died a few weeks later. It made it two years in the rain, sun and snow, then craps out after I found it!
A few weeks ago my cousin and I went mountain biking and rushed to get loaded up and drive home. We hear his new iphone ringing, but can't figure out where it was. Finally, frustrated we pull over a few miles down the highway. His phone was right where he put it, on top of the car!
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Lone Quail
Trad climber
Littleton, Colorado
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Dec 29, 2009 - 09:26am PT
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Mongrel reminded me of another uplifting incident.
At Indian Creek a few years ago my rack was accidentally picked up by a group of climbers as they vacated the area. The group included non climbers and I can see how this can happen as everyone pitches in to hump gear back to the car. Early the next morning at the Bridger Jack camping area, a car drives through asking if anyone was missing a rack. It turns out that they drove all the way home to Salt Lake and then when sorting the gear realized their mistake. Two of the group then turned around and drove overnight back to Indian Creek to return the gear. We did not know anything about each other and they took the chance that somehow they could find the owner. Furthermore they did it before we went climbing that day. Now that is going out of your way! Good karma to them.
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EP
Social climber
Way Out There
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Dec 29, 2009 - 10:54am PT
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I lost my Chouinard nut tool in the late 90s. It just disappeared one day when I was gathering my rack for a trip.
Found it yesterday while cleaning the laundry room.It was in a basket with guitar polish, fingerpicks, and cat toys.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Dec 29, 2009 - 12:04pm PT
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Lone Quail...Now that's a story! Cheers to the guys who knew that you'd be feeling like your trip was ruined until you got the gear back.
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