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tahoe523
Trad climber
Station Wagon, USA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 6, 2014 - 08:19pm PT
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This is likely to get buried, but thought I'd post up a sad PSA of some stolen gear.
Last Saturday afternoon at P&J I had a rope yanked off my pack while my partner and I were up on Golden Needles. Brand new bright blue Edelweiss Oxygen II 8.2mm 60M. Obviously I don't expect to ever see it again, but if anyone happens to see it fixed on a wall or up for sale on Craigslist or the Camp 4 board... well, there's still nothing I could ask you to do.
The real bummer about the situation is that it hardens you a bit. You expect these kinds of things to happen in a city. We trust our fellow climbing/hiking/outdoor loving brethren and it's sad to have to spread the word to remind fellow climbers that we can't trust our things at the crags.
Aside from the rope, they yanked a grigri2, BD #2 and #4. They left the biners that had identifiable tape behind. The cams are additionally marked with pink nail polish at the top near the lobes.
Stay safe and keep an eye out for your things and for your fellow climbers' things. Cheers.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Sorry for your misfortune . . . some real scumbags out there.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Thieves suck....
Only a real dirtbag would do such a thing. Lame.
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bootysatva
Trad climber
Idylwild Ca
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Some friends of mine, back around 1976 stole a rope from Holubar, a gear shop that no longer exists. Most of the climbers we new would not climb with them again sighting the bad Karma they would incur climbing on a stolen rope.
Those guys that stole the rope got fat soon after high school and never climbed again.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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I hate hearing about sh#t like this. Thieves do suck. Hope they get caught, and you recover your stuff.
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sammer
climber
Santa Cruz
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Not cool. Hard to imagine that people who could enjoy climbing someplace as awesome, fun, and beautiful and Pat and Jack (or anywhere in Yosemite) could be such losers as to rip you off like that. So sorry to hear that.
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frog (the real frog)
Trad climber
San Diego
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I've had just enough wine - may the perps have a loooooong fall on a looooow angle face - and may the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits (and nether regions) ...
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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That bites. Sorry to hear it.
Even in places more than an hour from a road, I might as well have had thieves. On separate occasions had squirrels chew through a nice pack, and had crows smear yogurt and applesauce all over my work Blackberry phone and destroy it (back when that was an advanced piece of technology).
Maybe this will make me more paranoid, give up cragging style, and leave nothing behind! It either stays at home or goes up with me. Maybe a water stash can be an exception.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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What a complete drag. You have my sympathy.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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hey tahoe523, good to see you on here. am super bummed though about your post - totally sucks getting gear ripped off! :(
I hope you had good skiing this winter, wherever you happened to be.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Worst Shino TR ever!
(bump)
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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g-damn euros
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Sorry to hear it.
You climbing on an 8.2 as a single? Or is that a tag/rap line?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Another reason not to climb in the valley.
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overwatch
climber
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Guess what everyone, the word is out among thieves about climbing gear. Anywhere you can walk they will walk. Don't leave gear at the base.
Sorry it happened to you. I think most people can relate to getting ripped off
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Typewriters and Ledges
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All the more reason to do obscurities.
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Byran
climber
San Jose, CA
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Pat and Jack might be a "spot" for thievery, probably due to the big parking lot across the way and super easy walk up to the base. A few years ago we were on a multipitch romp up to the top of Jack Pinnacle and left some jackets and water bottles stashed neatly out of the way at the bottom. Came back down and it was all gone.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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This thread deserves a bump. It needs to stay on the front page a while longer to warn others of the dangers of "two-legged bears" in the Valley and, sad to say, many other beautiful places.
I guess that one of the advantages of pitons and old oval carabiners was the ability to stamp my initials in them. We did that to help sort gear BITD, but it would be a bit of a theft deterrent as well.
Of course, it also helps me establish the value of two of my prize possessions -- two old Chouinard Bugaboos with "CP" -- as in Chuck Pratt -- stamped in them. I got them from Pratt in the early 1970's.
John
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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Tahoe523, I am sure I did see you that morning even briefly talk to your partner at parking lot. You just parked on left side of my car, while I was waiting for my wife. I did not know that you are Tahoe523.
This day I was waiting my wife too long, went to swim in Merced, forget my watch on the bolder.
When return 4 hours later the watch is gone...
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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:( bad karma for the theives bump
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