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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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