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darshahlu
Trad climber
Irvine, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 27, 2007 - 08:41pm PT
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I found a Black Diamond Number 5 near the top of NE Buttress of Higher Cathedral Rock. It was one of the new ones and in awesome condition. It was odd because just about 10 or 20 feet above the crack the pitch ended at BOLTS. I don't understand it to this day. Desperation? Or forgot to clean it? Anyway, I gave it to my friend, who was doing his "first" real trad climb by doing this Grade IV with me. He even lead a few of the pitches that day. Man, that was a 20+ hour adventure (he was pretty slow)! Afterwards, he told me he wouldn't have done it if he had known what the climb was about (hard cracks for EVER). Ha!
That day we also found 1 nut and a nut tool, which were both given to my partner.
Recently I found an HB offset (the biggest size). Out of stock stuff!
You guys?
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Feb 27, 2007 - 08:46pm PT
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My Leeper nut tool!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Feb 27, 2007 - 08:49pm PT
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I've bootied three 1.5 Friends over the years in varius places. One in Tuolumne, one I dug out of a rotten sandstone crack on Mt. Hayden in the Grand Canyon and I can't recall what the deal was with the third. Apparently, 1.5's a prone to getting stuck. Never stuck my own though...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:20pm PT
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On one climb we worked on, '[Karma] City Limits', almost every other time we went out to give it a whirl we ran into something - a beefy Oz. of the goods, a bic lighter in a silver and tourquoise sleeve, once invited to a big steak dinner by tourists who were watching, a couple of carabiners, etc. All the booty inspired the name once we got it...
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:35pm PT
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Must....Resist...Sexist....Remark.....
Ok, I've had amazing booty blessings. It seems that when something is needed on my rack, I consciously take note of it and in no time I manage to find that very size, and often make, on some climb.
For example, I needed a 5 camalot and a .75 tcu at one time, I found them both on the last pitch of the Rostrum.
I have a firm superstition that Yosemite loves me and takes care of me.
Peace
Karl
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DonC
climber
CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:45pm PT
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Stopped for a quick break at a road pullout. Saw a kleenex flower in a nearby bush. Thought I would pluck it to help keep our roads clean - turned out to be a waded-up $100 bill.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:50pm PT
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I was walking up to Rusty Wall and stopped just short of the wall to pick up a cool looking white bone. My buddy walked past me as I did this, then one step further he found a new #3 Cam sitting at the base of the wall.
I still cherish the bone.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:53pm PT
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I'd say the best piece I found was this year... While coming down from the base of Lurking Fear, I found a set of HB offset brassies under Dihedral Wall, racked on a `biner. Nice `biner too. What was cool was that on the way up, I found a .75 camalot and a Metolius offset nut in the 3rd class stuff. A couple of weeks ago I founf a TCU and another Metolius offset climbing at Tollhouse. The year has been good to me.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
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Getting ready to start Regular Route, Fairview and someone above drops a belay device and we hear it,"in coming!" It lands in a snow cave near us and when I go into the cave I found it landed right next to a loaded pipe. Bingo! If only someone would have dropped a lighter!
Peace
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Feb 27, 2007 - 10:02pm PT
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Hahahaha Karl!
I started responding earlier with a bootylishous response but I too resisted.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:35pm PT
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My sleeping bag. (It was in the same (remote) spot for 3 consecutive weekends, I posted a note; no response).
I've found most cam and nut sizes over the years.
In the summer of '87, doing the classics every weekend with my wife, we averaged one booty cam per weekend. I recall getting 2 on p4 of the Central Pillar of Frenzy.
One time we found a rope and a pitch full of gear in place. The rope was only 40m and the gear was somewhat strange (many tricams, which I don't use), so it wasn't that great, although our eyes were wide at the time.
A few years ago I found a pair of Petzl ascenders in the snow at the base of a wall. Upon returning home, I checked the lost+found section at cascadeclimbers.com, located the owner, and shipped them to him.
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:41pm PT
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Had to go for it...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:41pm PT
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All pales in comparison to making a climbing video with Jello.
Companies bury you in new gear.
(But sssshhhhhhh!!!!! Don't tell anyone!)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:43pm PT
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Whoa!
Check the posting time!
Glad to see she's wearing a helmet.
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Bill
climber
San Francisco
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:45pm PT
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Found a really nice down sleeping bag on east ledges. Left a note at camp4 and on wreck-dot, but no reply.
Got a #2 and #1 camalot, couple of stoppers, biners, and a draw traversing too high on Moon Goddess on Temple Crag - common mistake, apparently. Found a pack full of gear in the scree below Temple Crag - from the condition it looked like it had been there a year or so - I just left it there. Always wondered what the story behind it was. Probably someone just stashed it before the climb, and then couldn't find it afterward.
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:45pm PT
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Yeah Ron!! Right at the same instant! Oh and protection is always advised...
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:52pm PT
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A piton stamped C P (Chuck Pratt) off of Spyder Rock.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 27, 2007 - 11:59pm PT
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Sexist, sheesh.
My wife, hands down:
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quartziteflight
climber
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Feb 28, 2007 - 12:03am PT
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climbing wise purple alien
Sometimes it's hard to compare booty. After a booty drought one might pick up a crumby ol tri-cam and it might be the best tri-cam ever. Then again one might booty a black diamond #2 in stellar shape. With well oil springs and quite the trigger. There might be booty everywhere, fixed nuts, wildcountry friends, maybe even a couple TCU's, after looking at the lovely #2 working to take a fixed nut home seems silly...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 28, 2007 - 12:34am PT
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OKOKOK,
Check this out,
Not my story, but the best booty story I have ever read, from Stefano Ardito's "Peaks of Glory, Climbing the Worlds Highest Mountains", an excerpt from one of the stories inside called "Nanga Parbat Devourer of Men":
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