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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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