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Senor Pinche Wey
Big Wall climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 6, 2005 - 06:21pm PT
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I admit it. I have butterfingers. I have dropped things. My worst fumble was dropping a little Fish stuffsack containing:
the cd player
the lighters (all we had)
all the gummy bears
the codeine
the keys to my car
my sunglasses
all our Humboldt Co
When we heard my stuff explode 7 seconds later my partner said “Sure glad it wasn’t ME that dropped that…” a pretty calm guy
A year later I dropped my hardweather gear and pad in a storm. (We bailed the next day)
What’s the worst thing you ever dropped?
OLE'
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Shack
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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"the lighters", "all our Humboldt Co"
I would have gone after it...
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Melissa
Big Wall climber
oakland, ca
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Not dropped, per se, but was involved in the failure to properly secure resulting in it getting launched...
An aider.
The bag w/ the TP, paper bags, handy wipes. (That goodness it we topped out that night and had already done our morning thang!)
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DE
Mountain climber
Tustin, Calif.
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My co-first ascentionists dropped my Bosch from the top of "The Invisible Man" (2 pitches) at Josh about 15 years ago. I still miss it!
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Ammon
Big Wall climber
Lake Arrowhead
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My favorite is when your partner hucks something (once it was the drill) over his shoulder thinking it was clipped in.
The look on their face when they realized what they did is priceless!!
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Gomp
climber
San Diego
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Dropping stuff, hmmm...
I remember years ago...
...dropping the top to our one water bottle at the top of the third pitch on Keelers Needle...
Had gotten a late start, thought it was fewer pitches than it was, had to spend the night about 3 pitches from the top...
Was so happy to see those tourists with extra water!
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Ammon said:
"My favorite is when your partner hucks something (once it was the drill) over his shoulder thinking it was clipped in."
Something like that happened to me on my first attempt on the Zodiac. I had just led the Black Tower pitch and was taking off the racks and slings and clipping them into the anchors, when below me I see my Forrest wall hammer hit the tower once and then go to the deck..sigh..that was the last straw, we had to go down. The night before I had dropped the weed...man I got over the dropsy quickly. While my partner wasn't there to see the look on my face, I sure it was screwed up in some hideous frown or something.
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bulgingpuke
Trad climber
cayucos california
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when i was leading the last pitch on the west face of the tower I reached down to change the album playing on my ipod, the biner i was on shifted, i jerked my head up, and in the process i accidently fumbled the 350$ little brick right out of my hand..... I didnt even wanna look down, but when i did i saw it hanging there from my head phone cord swirling in the wind.
My heart took a shit!
~ty~
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Elcapinyoazz
Mountain climber
Anchorage, Alaska
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I dropped a cam on lead and had my partner, at a hanging belay, snatch it out of the air as it went by. That was pretty impressive (also saved quite a bit of cash since it was a 3.5 camalot).
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Dude, whatever, I did that! Um, except it was a sling so it was falling in slo-mo. Sort of the same, though.
One of my fave dropping stories isn't mine. Second- or third-hand (or twelfth-hand, probably.) Some wall rats were on the SE side of the Cap. There was a party above having a grand time with a boombox. Allegedly it was cool when they fumbled it.
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akclimber
Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
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"My co-first ascentionists dropped my Bosch from the top of "The Invisible Man" (2 pitches) at Josh about 15 years ago. I still miss it! "
Ain't that illegal, to use a drill in a National Park?
(Yes, I know, it was a National Monument then but the same rules applied.)
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mike
climber
tahoe city, ca.
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many pitches up my old partner was leading and needed a #2 cam. I had it on my loop. So I hucked it at him(making sure no one was below us). He caught it all stretched out with his pinky finger and slammed it in. We just started laughing.
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smidogg
Trad climber
berkeley
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Actually the drug offences necessary to lose financial aid are more severe than simple possession of Marijuana. It has to be something like distribution or possesion of narcotics. You should go to the financial aid site and check it out. I know of many with a possesion ticket both federal and state who are buying bags with their FASFA checks as we speak.
Sorry for thread drift just hate to see the paranoia propaganda working.
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spidey
Trad climber
Berkeley/El Cerrito
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My partner dropped the Poop Thermos (a 2 quart red and white igloo thermos from the village store, which we purchased to use as a makeshift poop tube) from Camp 5 on the Nose. It was dawn:30, we were on different ledges, and I had to go, so I asked him to send it up on the haul line. Being half asleep, he of course botched the clip, and off it went.
Fortunately it didn't hit anyone below us - nothing like starting your day with a Hurtling Thermos of Sh#t coming at you from 2000+ feet up. Talk about objective hazards...
And then, i still had to go, pretty bad...and we had no more poop thermos. I ended up using a water bottle we found at camp 6, cut open and then sealed with duct tape. Once again, duct tape saves the day.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Bad day on the Salathe. I'm leading the Hollow Flake, grinding around, and then I hear one of my jumars rattle down the crack into oblivion. Actually it was my partner's jumar that was dedicated to hauling. Maybe it was on a locking biner, maybe it wasn't, but I lost that jug with no hands involved.
Partner got me back later in the evening by dropping my #4 camalot while whipping out of the offwidth leading to the alcove.
Double cursed, I have to take the lead and do with without the #4, our only one. Plus I had to haul the rest of the climb with a stitch plate for locking off the haul rope.
With apologies to Pete, here's one of the best butterfinger's threads in history
http://www.rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=104337#104337
Peace
karl
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Halfbag on Aquarius; first el Cap route.
aider on Zodiac; first wall as head nailer
Lots of stuff lots of times;
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most amusing;
Drill bit holder on new descent route in Sedona. Not sure who did it, my partner scary Larry, or myself, punchline; when we needed it, on a tiny stance, on a steep wall we didn't have it. I ended up drilling a 3/4" by 3.5" hole with a bit and hammer, no bit holder- had to chalk up to turn the bit! we made it down and had laughs.
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DE
Mountain climber
Tustin, Calif.
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Apr 11, 2005 - 04:17pm PT
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AKclimber- Funny it never occured to me that it might have been illegal back then. Everyone was doing it and the issue never really came up.
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Mick K
climber
Northern Sierra
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Apr 11, 2005 - 05:48pm PT
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Bosan's chair-from the top of the triple cracks on the shield.
It seemed to fall for ever and ever and finaly blew around the nose and hit what seemd like many seconds later.
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