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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 23, 2015 - 08:47am PT
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Productive weekend...scored a few sweet things!
A friend!!!
AND...........
TWO BAGS OF SH#T TOSSED OFF THE WALL mixed with other random garbage!!!!! WOOOOOOO
COME ON PEOPLE! If you are climbing a wall and hauling your food and water, pack your sh#t up and down. Or at least don't sh#t in a bag and toss it off the wall. You are adding more garbage that is not biodegradable to the environment.
I personally enjoy, and take pride in seeing that people take care of the environment here in US. Days of tossing sh#t off the wall are gone. Please do your part in keeping the cliffs where we climb and valleys where we roam as clean as possible. No matter if you are a local or a visitor from another country, PLEASE PACK YOUR TRASH AND WASTE DOWN AND RECYCLE.
I want to spray about climbing things, not about packing sh#t out! So keep it clean! Please. :)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 08:59am PT
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I wish I had resisted clicking on this. The sight of that bag sent my sinuses into
coprophylactic shock. Luckily I have a large batch of French Roast to immerse my face in.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2015 - 09:04am PT
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Bon appetit!
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:05am PT
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Shake the trees when you're hiking near the base of EC. I scored a TCU that way once.
Base of WC under the Prow is another good booty zone.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:05am PT
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My bad. I didn't even climb El Cap, I just pooped in bags and walked them up there.
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Alpamayo
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:09am PT
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Booty booty? Dooty booty?
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:09am PT
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So, that's some real sh#t.
Shake the trees when you're hiking near the base of EC. I scored a TCU that way once.
Base of WC under the Prow is another good booty zone.
Sounds like hard hat zones to me.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:41am PT
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I personally enjoy, and take pride in seeing that people take care of the environment here in US.
YEAH! Me too.
With a little spring transplant, that friend should be good to go.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:43am PT
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Sorry, this is not a Camalot. It's a ridged stem Friend.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Twain Harte
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Mar 23, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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#whochuckedthepoop
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2015 - 10:13am PT
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It's a ridged stem Friend
Yes. Looks like something of yours?!
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Mar 23, 2015 - 10:24am PT
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Judging by the axle rust that friend was probably fixed for a while and someone cleaned it and instead of hiking it out tossed it like a... tosser.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 10:53am PT
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El Cap gives and gives. NutAgain and I found a #5 Camalot in the winter a few years ago, in perfect condition. I worked hard to find its owner, never did. I found these off in the trees over the years:
But, the ratio of trash to value that I've found and hauled out from the base or off the wall is probably about 20/1. Everlasting shame on anyone who trashes the Captain.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Mar 23, 2015 - 12:57pm PT
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Way out in the talus, Trip to Zodiac, is the Comstock Lode of dropped gear. The SW face is no good - the air-booty falls right on the trail, and is gone in a flash.
There used to be a rattlesnake who guarded the 3rd class start of the Trip, discouraging people from using a long, long stick to extract gear from the trees there. Is that snake still alive? Must be a five-footer, or so, by now.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Mar 23, 2015 - 04:16pm PT
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That's an old Friend...given the rust and the size/configuration of the nut. Does it say, "Patent Pending"? Does it have a Wild Country stamp on it?
Almost looks like someone vibro etched something on the stem?
What's it say, what's it say? Ha ha.
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life is a bivouac
Trad climber
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Mar 23, 2015 - 04:36pm PT
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Just for the record...
In the late '60s there was a group, The Cult of the Blue Cagoule. After doing a wall or climb, they would go back to the base, walk along it for some distance and pick up any trash, be it theirs or any one else'. 'course there wasn't much back then to pick up, there was, however, enough to fill half a trash bag most times; tuna cans, candy wrappers, beer cans, water bottles and old slings etc were gathered up ... At that same time, some of the Cultists had started exploring and climbing in Peru and Argentina. It was a real shocker... to see some of the most beautiful peaks in the world festooned in every man's garbage and toilet paper flagging in the wind, anchored to brown piles...
It is up to us to husband this treasure, the mountains, we love so much.
Thanks for letting me rant.
Cheers! Russ
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 23, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
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Gross!
thanks russ!
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jonnyrig
climber
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Mar 24, 2015 - 07:58am PT
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I like those old cams. If anyone has some they'd like to donate to my cause, I'd be happy to take them up some obscure routes in the middle of nowhere, maybe even bail off one or two and leave them there to make future parties believe the route was done before I was born...
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Mar 24, 2015 - 08:03am PT
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That Friend has a lotta life left. Pull it apart, get the springs back in action and put some new nuts on. Looks like a #3.5, or #4??
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