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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 3, 2015 - 11:15am PT
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ROBBED
Feeling bummed today as our hang board, that I custom made to fit on the roof of our van was stolen off our picnic table in the North Pine Campground in Yosemite this weekend.
Only climbers would know what it is (and want to steal it) and it would take some power tools to take it apart for anyone else to use it.
Little hope in getting it back, but figured I would post up just in case
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Soooo weak. The climbing tribe is turning into a bunch of hoodlums just like the rest of the world. Best of luck.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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The climbing tribe is turning into a bunch of hoodlums just like the rest of the world That process started about 35 years ago.
I used to be able to leave my rack on the picnic table in Camp 4 and never worry about it getting stolen. The first sign of change was when gear started getting stolen from the top of fixed lines on El Cap around 1980.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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When climbing became just another "thing to do", and not a choice of lifestyle. That's when the tribe got infiltrated and disseminated.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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C4 was always filled with ROBs. Even back in the liberal, groovy, hippy-dippy era. Especially when the streets of Berkeley migrated to the Ditch during the summers. They didn't call it stealing; it was "liberating".
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c wilmot
climber
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It is likely sitting in the DNC dorms right now.
But it could still be in the park- you should look around the parking areas, including the ones for the employees (around the ice rink, the camp 4 overflow).
since it is custom, and you have pics- it would be hard for someone to claim it was theirs, if you see it in the back of a car.
And the Rangers would LOVE to bust someone for stealing.
Also ask around- people might have seen someone with it. and perhaps check the double wide trailer next to the ice rink which (last I knew) is the DNC game/internet room. It has a wall where empoloyess post stuff for sale, and usually lots of dnc employees talking loudly.
You can be bummed its gone- or put some effort into trying to get it back
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sorry you lost your hangboard.
I had climbing gear stolen in Camp 4 in Yosemite and in the Needles in South Dakota in the '70's. Theft is a crime of opportunity and the thieves are not necessarily climbers. That said, there have been thieves among climbers and there's nothing even remotely new about that either.
I don't think the general climbing population has become any more criminal, in fact probably just the opposite on a percentage basis.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Way back in the day someone stole my sleeping bag out of my tent. It was not camp 4 but another campground (can't remember which). Had my 8 year old nephew with me. It sucked
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2015 - 06:37pm PT
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Thanks everyone for the words of sympathy and advice, no hang board, but hey I am in Yosemite!
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Climberdude
Trad climber
Clovis, CA
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COT,
Sorry about your loss. I will be in The Ditch this week. I will keep an eye out for a hang board.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Crim's are stupid.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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You really can't be sure it was climbers… I know who else. or for what purpose you say.. but logic and thieves do not bedfellows make.
I had a whole store of stuff stolen, from over a hundred pairs od Gramicci pants to 34 ropes,
i found out more than a year later it was taggers getting access to freeway overpasses.
you just don't know.
be thankful it was just the board.
Ed
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WBraun
climber
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If you've never been robbed in Yosemite then you're still a n00b ......
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steve shea
climber
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I think Werner is right. We got initiated early. In 1968 climbing on the buttress above the Ahwahnee Hotel, Tim Harrison and Richard Jimmerson and yours truly watched my '62 IH Scout get broken into. You could see it parked below, through the trees. we yelled and cursed but we were some pitches up and could do nothing but watch our stuff get boosted.
We got some of stuff back a few months later. Two sleeping bags. I was never a regular in the Valley. Always just quick trips from Co for specific targets or maybe ten days max. My gear stayed locked up tighter than a drum, we learned early.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Yosemite Valley has been more like an urban park for as long as I can remember, it's beautiful but like any urban park be wary of the humans.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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A hangboard? Really? Try $15K worth of cameras and climbing/camping gear!
Effing rangers couldn't have cared less.
And you weren't "robbed".
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Maybe you did a few hangs after you ate some bacon; and , the bears got it!
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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In 1978 I got robbed by my YP&CCo. assigned roommate of everything I owned except my car; which I was in. I will never forget entering the tent and noticing a change; but it took a few minutes for it to sink in. He and his friend weren't too bright; as they were using assumed names; but when talking they used their given names; which led me to ask "what is with the aliases?"
His reply was that he was a fugitive and hiding from the law. He and his pal had been arrested for grand theft, robbing a warehouse that contained all types of musical equipment, most of which was amps and speakers. They had jumped bail and came up to Yosemite to hide out. They got jobs in housekeeping and were going to leave in a few weeks, about as long as they figured it would take the background check to be processed.
I drove to the NPS LEO office, to report the theft; but they told me there wasn't much they could do as the jerk(s) were probably long gone from the park. (I had worked all day, it was around 4 p.m. when I found my things missing.)
I ran into a friend and told him the tale. He said he saw the thieves with their thumbs out, trying to get out of the park. He thought it was strange because he noticed my gear and knew the guy didn't have any. They were trying to get to Fresno or Modesto, I can't remember exactly. I hit the 4 lane somewhere and drove all night back and forth on a stretch of fifty miles or so, hoping to spot them. I didn't think I had much of a chance; but I had to try.
At dawn, I was just about to give up and head back to the park, when I saw my bright blue sleeping bag in the green grass of the freeway cloverleaf interchange. I went to a pay phone and called the sheriff's dept. They met me there and after asking me a bunch of dumb questions such as "how do we know you didn't sell this stuff to them?", they decided I was legitimate. They drove over the curb right to the guys, got out and tapped them with their night sticks to wake them.
So after driving a few hundred miles; but never giving up, I got all of my belongings back except a pair of binoculars.
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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How many times did you actually use the hangboard???
Most likely it was just some punk kids that like taking sh#t that is laying around.
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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I have been for years putting everything back into my car. I only leave the tent out except for Facelift since we are surrounded by friends.
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