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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 17, 2008 - 02:26pm PT
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I have a Layton Kor ring angle found on "Shangri La," a handmade RURP stamped "RR" Jeff Clapp found at the base of the W. Face of El Cap and gave me and a bong (piton) stamped with Dennis Hennek's initials found in Yosemite somewhere.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jan 17, 2008 - 02:27pm PT
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must....restrain.....self...
Lackofrestraintedit: 19 years yesterday.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, Ca
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Jan 17, 2008 - 02:31pm PT
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Yeah, me too. If I were to post her name on the web she would be really pissed.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Jan 17, 2008 - 02:37pm PT
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Jan 17, 2008 - 02:47pm PT
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A brand spankin' new $100 bill while jogging
one Thanksgiving morning! Whoopeee!
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 17, 2008 - 02:53pm PT
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Found a Troll wedge (stopper style)
that was the size of a 6 1/2 Stopper,
before Chouinard started making the 1/2
sizes. For a year or so I had a nearly
unique piece.
Endwise it was the same as a 6.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:02pm PT
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A #4 friend on the S. face of Mt Russell along with 2 'biners left behind in a retreat I think.
I have found lot's of other cams but they had been dropped so I don't consider them to be as good a find as the in-situ friend frm Mt Russell.
I also found an intact Bighorn Sheep skull with the horns attached, out in the desert somewhere. A real beauty, with the sheaths over the horns like woodgrain. They do a full 360 turn. It must've been an older specimine. Now it rests on my fireplace hearth & watches the house when I'm not home.
When doing the Rostrum N. face route in May of 1985, my buddy Matt found 3 cams, 5 'biners & a few wired nuts. He was so jacked about it & he still gets a twinkle in his eye recounting the story.
WBL
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:06pm PT
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The Reef sandle company has turned their quest for the Grail into a multi-million dollar enterprise...and yet don't seem satisfied!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:15pm PT
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Found in Jtree at the lat SushiFest, out climbing with PhilB, ClimbRunRide, Marty(r) and ohhhhh, I'm forgetting his name - the other guy.
Useless to me, but I couldn't just leave it. So it's in my kitchen gear kit and someday I'll pass it along.
Climbing - I had booty bootied right out from under me - twice! Just nuts, so I didn't fight for them,just thought the person who took them were weird.
And that's all the hard goods so far. I found a brand new 2 footer sling once, and a wrapped cordellette one a midway ledge, that must have unclipped from someone's harness.
I have much better luck getting non-climbing booty. Found $5 just the other day. Found $40 in New Paltz parking lot a while back. Found $150 on the sidewalk once. And since the subway has gone to the swipe cards instead of tokens, I've probably found more than $200 worth of them.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:15pm PT
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My favorite booty is the fixed gear everyone else gives up on.
A couple years back in pinnacles on the start of Sparrow crack it was a very shiny 0.5 camalot. I saw two parties wail on it, and who knows who before them. Took me about 5 minutes. I gave it to my partner. The bootying is often more rewarding than the booty itself.
Start of P3 of WFLT was a #1 camalot the previous party worked on, and swore was fixed. Spyork lead the pitch and swore it was toast. It took about 7 minutes. Looks a little tweaked from either being fallen on or funked on(sintered piece that holds the two axels is bent slightly). Tossed it in the aid gear pile since I only had 4 1/2 #1 sized pieces (#2.5 HB is like a #1.5 camalot, if it were to exist).
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:20pm PT
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I super deluxe digital camera w/ a pic of one my friends smiling back at me when I turned it on. (Rehomed that one.)
A new #3 camalot dangling in a bush...dropped, but not decked.
An old ring angle that pulled out w/ my fingers.
A big peice of wood right next to place where my tire started spinning in the sand.
Water when I really needed some.
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survival
Big Wall climber
arlington, va
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Jan 17, 2008 - 03:38pm PT
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*A $50 bill near mirror lake when I had been living on rice and peanut butter for about a month!
* Keith Royster and I cleaned up on Direct NW face of Half Dome in "79". The Euros that did the route prior to us kept getting lost in the flakes and leaving back-off gear, getting stuff stuck, chickening out, whatever. They must've lightened half their rack. Keith and I were intentionally running around off route to collect gear! It took us extra time but man it was fun. We were loaded down..Too bad some of the gear was so weird.
*An old army soft iron pin that I found out in the sticks once.
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
Denver
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Jan 17, 2008 - 04:15pm PT
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Pretty new # 4 c4 and a new 8mm dry rope. I tried to find the owners on each occasion. I was happy I didn't.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Jan 17, 2008 - 04:28pm PT
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I once found a $100 bill walking to a flea market.
Happie, that was Mtnmum, aka Jude, with us.
Haven't picked up booty, but I've left my share of stuff for others though. . .
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jan 17, 2008 - 04:31pm PT
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Where do I need to go to find all this booty cash!?
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Salathiel
Trad climber
South Beach, FL
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Jan 17, 2008 - 04:40pm PT
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I found two fleeces...fleeceum...fleecii? in the valley on two seperate occasions. One under the Start of Royal Arches, the other under a pile of leaves near Bishop's terrace.
Happiegirl, that looks like a paint can opener, I think you can open beers with the other end. Most painting tools have some corelated alcohol imbibing function.
blur
edit... I also found $100 in my bathrobe at Christmas! Thank you baby Jesus!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jan 17, 2008 - 04:56pm PT
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" Mtnmum, aka Jude"
Oh yeah! I forgot his name...ummmm, too. But....wasn't there 5 of us total, and one was the hippy guy(that was the one couldn't remember)?
No that it matters... it was a fun day, and I have my next trip dates tentative - mid to late March(can't go in April so dammit, I hope there's no 420 sushifest!!!! What about late March, folks?)
Paint Can opener - yes, that's what it is.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:09pm PT
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Forgot me? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The other "hippie" was the infamous Chuck Clancy!
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
Fannie's Crack
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:21pm PT
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A really cool weathered royal robbins canvas shirt on the Teton Glacier. The weathering made it look tie dyed. Recently I found a visor out in the woods in the middle of a dirt road. It has a picture of a raven on it. I had no idea what the raven stood for. Recently two people asked me which course I had taken......apparently it stands for some para military training school. Which would make sense I found it during hunting season. Now I just tell folks I took the rocket launcher class.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:24pm PT
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My friends...
Yes, and they all have nice booty too.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:34pm PT
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I saw a nice booty out at Crossroads Cafe this past weekend...
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purplesage
Trad climber
Bend, OR
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:51pm PT
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A film container with a big fat roach in it tied to the anchor on Chickenhead ledge. Improved the bivy considerably.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jan 17, 2008 - 05:52pm PT
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Mtnmun - Not you! I just forgot your name... How could I forget your generous picnic meal????
About the raven hat - Maybe you should make sure it's not some group you wouldn't want to have a run in with, or be wearing their insignia and run into someone....else!
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ec
climber
ca
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:05pm PT
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A Dolt 'Lost Arrow' style piton from near Wino Towers on the WEML, El Cap.
A Ring Angle laying in the woods near Arrowhead Arete.
A full rack of draws, slings plus belay anchor 'biners left in place by nOObs on Portent, PinnaclesNM (the owners, or anyone were nowhere to be found).
A hammock dropped and lost (from a haulbag drop) a decade or so before by Fred B. & Co., at the base of Angel Wings, SequoiaNP.
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ec
climber
ca
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:11pm PT
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mt10910,
'Like in 'Christmas Story' you made a lamp out of it, eh?
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:20pm PT
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I don't have anything cool I can think of, but on various climbs I've found:
Brand new Yellow TCU
4' sling and locker
2 lockers
About 8 nuts and a few biners on about 5 different climbs
4' sling and hotwire
Another locker
Sling, hotwire and nano
I think I've offered up 2 nuts and 2 biners.
Somehow I lost a helmet, old backpack, locker and belay device but not while climbing, but I guess those became booty too.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:22pm PT
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A plastic bag containing a film canister of decent smoke, papers, and chocolate bars on a mtn bike trip to Moab. Kept us going for a few weeks
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:43pm PT
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Yo Fet,
you didn't get that 4' sling and locker on corrugation did you? I had to rescue some climbers off that and they left some of my gear behind.
If it was, keep it. booty is booty.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:45pm PT
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I've found my own booty a couple times in the past couple years.
I mean, I found some stuff of mine that I had left behind a year
before. Two different times. Traffic was pretty slow,
fortunately.
I found a draw in the brush near a short climb, and it turned out
to belong to Brutus.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:49pm PT
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just found 1000 feet of webbing in my garage.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 17, 2008 - 06:51pm PT
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Ken and helpers found about 12 tonnes of garbage at the Yosemite FaceLift, including a '51 Nash. Top that!
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Paulina
Trad climber
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Jan 17, 2008 - 07:00pm PT
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I think 'booty' means you keep it, so I don't think the FaceLift garbage counts...
I really suck at booty. Did I just write that? I mean, I probably lost more stuff than found.
How about coolest booty you've ever left for someone else? I once left an olympus mu camera, full of my pictures too!, on a rock at the rocky beach on an island in Terra Nova NP, Newfoundland. That was in the summer of 2000. It might still be lying there.
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Jan 17, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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I have mentioned this once before, ages ago. I did one of the first few ascents of Hockey Night. Supposedly the 3rd. After a few pitches it just joins the old WOEML start that was still chopped at the time.
There is this big leaning corner up there, and I was having to grovel into the back of it to get gear in. It was totally full of bat sh#t. I mean feet of it. I spy this yellow 1" runner on a chockstone and pull it out of the crap. On it was a little biner, a big ass Kong biner with RR stamped on it in about ten places, and a 2 inch bong.
I dropped the bong up high, and somebody ripped off the carabiner within 1 month. I coulda been somebody!
I emailed Don Lauria once about the Bardini Foundation, and mentioned it to him. He had no memory of leaving any gear...but even the BIG BOYS drop stuff.
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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Jan 17, 2008 - 08:48pm PT
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#2 friend on the Prow ended really cool. I was sorting gear after climbing a route in Jtree several years later when I noticed my partner put it on his rack.
I said hey that’s mine no he says it his. He counts his #2s and says hey I lost it in the Valley.
I ask if he lost it on the Prow and was one of his party chanting and yelling. Yes and yes so it went back to Dana ?
Biggest booty count was on Pan Am # 2 Friend , Pins and nuts
Best booty ever ever ever was renting a room in the dorms behind the general store in the Valley. No more Rangers beating on the sides of my van yelling come out we know you are in there. Three layers of curtains I never opened up.
Oh it was the ladies dorm to boot. Thanks to my roomies Jackie F and Maggie W. the ghost room mate.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 17, 2008 - 08:50pm PT
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Chuck Pratt piton (stamped CP ) on Spider Rock......Biner with Horn stamped on it on Washer Woman (FA 1967), Rearick wooden Chock in the Valley of the Gods, Wooden Piton on Human Fright (Tahquitz), and a hand gernade/whiskey bottle on top of Mex. Hat.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Jan 17, 2008 - 08:59pm PT
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Thought we found some booty once ...
turned out to the be the body.
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Nightclub Dwight
Social climber
Outside Your Window
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Jan 17, 2008 - 09:53pm PT
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That would be that sweet skeeze that I met in the Mtn Room that packed my nose full and rocked my world round about 89. You'd think I'd remember her name, but I absofukinlutly assure you I'd know the contours of dat booty should I ever chance ta run my hands over it again.
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Nightclub Dwight
Social climber
Outside Your Window
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Jan 17, 2008 - 10:06pm PT
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Heh, damn dude, yah sure you shulda give it to him. CLose your eyes, feel the room spin, it all feels good.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Jan 17, 2008 - 10:48pm PT
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Prolly best single booty haul I made, was not something I would not want to use.
My partner and I hung the rack we found at the C-4 kiosk.
we were bivied in the trees and heard it take the tumble and subsequent thud,
on a midnight journey off the Captain.
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booty story:
Early 80's, winter ice climbing.
Harvard cabin, Huntington ravine, Mnt. Wahington N.H.
Most climbers have eaten, a couple still cooking.
Somebody is racking gear when there's this...
"hey that's my biner"
Long/short
The guy with the biner, acquired it that day at the top of O'dell's gully.
The climber claiming it (but not wanting it back) said, when he got a close look at it:
"I don't believe it, yep same one... I found that biner on top of a climb at Near Trapps in the Gunks. I lost it near the top of Pidgeon Spire... 6 years ago"
That biner got around.
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Jan 18, 2008 - 12:33am PT
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U stemmed .5 camelot three pitches up osirus in lumpy...
bag of shwag and papers on a trail in big cottonwood...
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Jan 18, 2008 - 12:51am PT
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I think my favorite booty was on Lucky Streaks- I thought it was a nut to match my main set- Metolius. The cable was rusted, obviously been there a couple of years. I fished it up out of a slot, and out popped a large hex. It was like when the big splinter comes squirting out of your flesh...
It's a kind of side sport- a climbing trip is not successful if I don't come home with more gear than I left with.
The YDS system can be applied- ie the hex mentioned above was 5.10 in difficulty, but with a high coolness factor.
Recently, a .5 camalot came out of Sail Away after a 20 minute battle. Trigger wires all shot, but about a .10d booty- the crux of the climb.
Over 30 biners, countless nuts, 3 figure 8's, maybe 10 cams, etc., etc.
Still looking for the yos. hammer at El Cap
Beyond climbing: weed, money, chainsaw.
In building cavities: axe, nudie pics, hammers, tape measure, beer cans, old newspapers, coins, '60's posters, old bottles,
a naked girl masturbating on the summit of a peak that I scrambled up.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jan 18, 2008 - 01:11am PT
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Montana's a small community, so the booty that I have found stays anonymous. An unexpected booty "hole" turned out to be this:
I bolted a fun .10a/b face in an area that I was working on and ended the climb with just hangers for anchors--the catch was that I placed Met Rap hangers 15 feet away (within easy eyesight) for the actual rapping. This saved wear and tear on any hardware that would normally have been at the end of the climb. It seemed simple--get to the top of the climb, clip the bolts w/ slings and 'biner and TR the shite out of it; last one up cleans the slings, then walks over to the Rap hangers and abseils down, pulling rope. Simple, right ?
Apparently, (pre-guide days) no one saw/realized the Rap station and just left equalized slings and biners until I came by to "collect" the poot when maintaining the station(s). Got maybe a dozen 'biners and yards of webbing this way, unintentionally, of course.
I treat booty as re-usable leaver gear and nothing more. I have taken therefore I must give back, or something like that.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Jan 18, 2008 - 01:56am PT
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Yo Fet,
you didn't get that 4' sling and locker on corrugation did you? I had to rescue some climbers off that and they left some of my gear behind.
If it was, keep it. booty is booty.
No, one was from EB of Middle Cathedral, one from Commitment.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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Jan 18, 2008 - 02:18am PT
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I'm pretty good at getting stuck gear others have given up on. Mostly nuts, nuthin' special.
Found a $100 bucks soaking wet in a big rainstorm in right by my car door on the ground at Produce World in Tustin about two years ago. I hung around for several minutes to see if anyone was lookin' for it. Ka-ching!
I found a credit card at the Arco in Fullerton last night. I turned it in to the store. I probably should have just called the card company, judging by the wits of the clerk.
My grandfather lived near a very exclusive country club on Cape Cod, Mass. When we were kids, he had my brothers and I forage in the brush (hello poison ivy!) for lost balls, most of which were brand new. We got a quarter for each one we found. This was at the end of the day when the place was deserted on remote reaches of the course. Once I found Tip O'Neil's ball. Not to be confused with Timmy O'Neill's balls.
Fletch
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jan 18, 2008 - 03:28am PT
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"I found a draw in the brush near a short climb, and it turned out to belong to Brutus.
are you sure it was his?
booty for me, Bridwell Bolts hanger off A1 bolt ladder on Monolith sitting on the ground, post replacement effort by other.
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Jan 18, 2008 - 03:43am PT
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A Forest Ladder porked from the base of Pacific Ocean Wall in 1982. I did 10 walls with it. . .Tracy Dorton style!
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Jan 18, 2008 - 04:36am PT
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Radical-
Crazy how much goes on outside of the computer realm eh? Hell, get out of the house a few times a week, maybe start in the nearest casino, work your way up to a few beers in a local bar; then if your feelin real huge, do an occasional 10 push up's for the ladies; before you know it you'll be ready to pull plastic. Noyse!
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TradIsGood
Recently unshackled climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jan 18, 2008 - 08:04am PT
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I once found a $100 bill walking to a flea market.
Whoa! How many legs did it have?
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 18, 2008 - 11:19am PT
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Munge, I found that draw below Midas, the second time it was
climbed.
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Dave Tapes
Trad climber
Silverado CA
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Jan 18, 2008 - 01:22pm PT
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DE Someone found a haul bag full of gear at the base of the throne 20+ years ago. It contained someones rack, ropes and other useful stuff. They couldn't believe their good luck. All this nice stuff just left in the middle of nowhere. It must of been a bitch to carry out.
Damn theives.
DW
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clustiere
Trad climber
Rock Ridge/ Oakland CA
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Jan 18, 2008 - 01:36pm PT
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Bag of cams and stuff at trash can rock - by the way it's at Nomads if your looking for it. And bam of cams and stuff at the Base of Keeler Needle, looked old and tattered.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 18, 2008 - 03:38pm PT
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Hiking up a trail once, I didn't even slow to pick up some trash (a plastic baggie) laying on the ground. Later, I was about to toss it into the garbage when I looked closer. The baggie wasn't empty!
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jan 18, 2008 - 11:18pm PT
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Here's the pic I wanted...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jan 19, 2008 - 01:50am PT
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kidding scuff :)
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brat
climber
The Portal
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Jan 19, 2008 - 03:27am PT
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Straw hat balanced on the slab on Stately Pleasure Dome, about 4 pitches up, 20 feet to the right of The Boltway. How the HELL did it get up there? Who climbs in a huge straw hat?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Sep 30, 2016 - 01:12am PT
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I thought my recent score of two 4" cams in three days was gud....and then I saw:
a naked girl masturbating on the summit of a peak that I scrambled up
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Sep 30, 2016 - 04:11am PT
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The whiskey and grenade appear to be a caver's rescue kit. The bat sticker is their gang sign. The grenade is interchangeable with a 45 automatic.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Sep 30, 2016 - 07:11am PT
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86 booty cams retrieved to date over 40 years of climbing including a #6 Camalot which was an excellent haul in itself :-)
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 30, 2016 - 10:16am PT
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I've bootied the usual assortment of cams, nuts, biners, slings.
But my son is so lucky finding money it's eerie.
Starting at 5 years old he'd check the coin returns on vending machines, etc. and about half the time he'll find some. He found a $20 bill at the beach a couple months back. What's wild is the frequency. He's finds money around once a month.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 30, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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It was back in the '80s at this bar in Costa Mesa called Pierce Street Annex. Dr. F probably knows of it. It was a very fun place, much better than the other Costa Mesa meat markets like Chester Drawers and Hoagie Barmichaels.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 30, 2016 - 11:01am PT
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I can't remember where we found it but it was a really cool old ring angle that we re-purposed into one of those "ring-angle claws". We used it for years on several walls. Bomber hook.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 30, 2016 - 11:27am PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Sep 30, 2016 - 11:37am PT
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got the motorcycle all packed up and rode off while an OR camo goretex bivi sac continued drying on a rock up the kern. it was a hooped model with forward facing netting. i was really clinging to hope racing back to the scene a few hours later. it was pretty well ensconced, but no joy. if there's a similar thread on a fisherman's forum, there may be a winner. pretty cool booty, but from the flipside
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Highdesertman
Trad climber
jtree ca
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Sep 30, 2016 - 04:22pm PT
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Hiked up to do the thin red line in the Washington cascades for a rope solo adventure with no topo and no real good idea where the route was. Used a rock to chop steps up to the base of the wall where the snow had melted away looking for the route and there was a twisted up piece of paper laying in the snow and rocks.
Turned out to be the topo for my route that somebody had ripped from a guide book.
Topped out in two days with a dry bivy on top. Topo booty!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Sep 30, 2016 - 04:38pm PT
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4ft 4mm cord used by Bob Kamps.. he gave it to me.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Sep 30, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
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Absence of any evidence that anyone had been on that rock before.
(recycling what I said before in a similar discussion)
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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my coolest would be that which reminds of people and place.
this unassuming Camelot has both. My friend Dan encouraged I try a thin little route in the Serenity crack area, Peter's Out. 60-70' later that was me PO, and hanging. As I gazed at the committing crux I could hear parties high above me, thrashing and mutter, then oh no! and the sound of a projectile slicing thru tree leaves. I look up near 200' relieved to see some color falling rather than rock, for it's heading right at me. I lean far back then take a big horizontal swipe as it rockets by. Yes, complete w'biner it's on my waist in a nanosecond. Instantly McDevitt yells up, Valley rules he's half owner and he also holds my tether. "20 bucks parking lot(circa 87')maybe 25 cause it didn't hit the ground" he demands. hmm...the conversation quickly turns to beer, and that a twelve pack will both buy out this cam for me, and get me off this climb before I turn it ugly. we bade a hasty retreat to the Deli.
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