Lost Gear On Scimitar

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Eric Ely

Trad climber

Sacramento, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 11, 2012 - 05:09pm PT

Greetings fellow climbers,

Yesterday, July 10th I suffered a leader fall at Lover's Leap that resulted in a broken ankle. Unfortunately, this resulted in my partner and I being picked off the mountain by local SAR teams. Under the circumstances many pieces of my rack were left on the mountain. More specifically, below the 5.9 bulge on the third pitch of Scimitar. If anyone happens to come across these pieces I would greatly appreciate their return. I believe the following was left up there:

3 Black Diamond 10mm Slings
Approx 6 Camp wiregate carabiners
# 7 Black Diamond Stopper
.5 C4 Camalot
#1 (Blue) Master Cam

If anyone happens to climb this route and comes across this gear please email me at ffeeW81@yahoo.com.

Greatly Appreciated,
Eric

toadgas

Trad climber

los angeles

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:10pm PT

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sorry for your misfortune and best of luck retrieving your gear

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bullfrog

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:17pm PT

That stinks. I've been in the position of having to leave gear due to an accident. Hope you get it back and hope the recovery is quick.

fattrad

Mountain climber

GOP Convention

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:18pm PT

Eric,

A few Leap locals read the forum, hopefully they can help.

Hoping that you heal up quickly.

TheTool

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

bouldering

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:19pm PT

Don't they have some SAR lackeys round up left gear as part of the operation?

locker

Gym climber

DUH!!!...

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:22pm PT

I think it's averaging around two threads a week for lost gear or gear left behind or stuck gear...

It's like a bad virus and 20% of ALL climbers are about to catch it...

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:30pm PT

Yeah, but this one's different.

Hope you get your gear & health back.

toadgas

Trad climber

los angeles

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:31pm PT

^^^^

why is there not a single thread called ...LOST AND FOUND CRAP

all these threads will be copied onto it until they disappear and at the rate they appear that single thread will always stay bumped onto page one

sheeeeeesh

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bullfrog

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:34pm PT

Hey locker,

Agreed, lot's of 'lost' gear recently but I think the reasons matter. If you break your ankle and a rescue is involved it's a little different than if you forget and leave something behind, have a partner that doesn't know how to clean, jump on all your placements to seat them until they are welded, etc.

locker

Gym climber

DUH!!!...

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:36pm PT

bullfrog...

mine is JUST an observation regardless of the hows or whys of lost, stolen, left, dropped, etc...

I've never seen it so many times, so often...

bullfrog

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:44pm PT

Agreed again. My reaction was to the bad virus comment. I clearly took that differently than you meant it. You may not have seen so many postings about it in the past but you've come across booty haven't you?

More people may be posting about it now, and that was why I wanted to make the differentiation between those who wound up in a bad situation and those who just did something careless.

As was stated in another thread Mt. Project has a category for lost and found, (also one for accidents.) Maybe people looking for things should post up over there. Jumping off this thread now.

Farouk

Boulder climber

Sylvan Grove

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:48pm PT

Good luck dood as all the guys on here are like thieves and will laugh at your misfortune!!!!!!!!!!! and they are old and don't get any of the shizzle. They call it booty but it is just stealing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bullfrog

Trad climber

Jul 11, 2012 - 05:52pm PT

And then we get trolled...

locker

Gym climber

DUH!!!...

Jul 11, 2012 - 06:00pm PT

"I clearly took that differently than you meant it."...

Correct!!!...

;-)

nutjob

Gym climber

Berkeley, CA

Jul 11, 2012 - 06:10pm PT

I propose a new rescue policy.

Given that most people wouldn't lose more than a few hundred bucks of gear at a chunk on a route (maybe a thousand if you blow most of a rack?), it seems like this should be de facto insurance premium paid to the rescue team. Let them keep the booty as a nominal payment for their efforts.

I've been very fortunate to not be in this position, and I'm probably not sufficiently financially empathetic to those who have lost... but... I have left a lot of gear on routes, accepted that it was gone and the price of admission for this past-time. At least we don't pay for ski lift tickets.