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Gha
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 22, 2005 - 10:08pm PT
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so... to add to the shame of being schooled on the nose last summer, I dropped my wedding ring while bailing from the stovelegs. (I know i should have lefte it in the car)
Since the imitation silver replacement that I bought in reno has already worn out, i thought i might post to see if any gear scavengers found it. It dropped from the nose rap route ath the 3rd or 4th anchor, and should still be clipped to a bd neutrino biner
(don't worry, not only is my wife still with me, I'm having another go at the nose this summer)
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salad
climber
San Diego
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Jun 22, 2005 - 10:46pm PT
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i just tie mine around my neck with some 3mil or so... really no chance of losing it, and id rather not leave it at home..
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jun 23, 2005 - 12:23am PT
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Bummer. Its probably been used in a bear wedding ceremony by now. Time to recharge your tranquilizer gun.
Years ago, I threw down my car keys to someone from the top of a 150 foot spire in the Needles (in S.D.) The keys landed in the dirt and low scrub near the designated catcher. As far as I know, they've never been found. The car stayed on the roadway while a new set was ordered from the dealer. I searched a whole lot that year and again every year for several more years; the area in which they landed isn't all that big.
I figure the mountain goats got 'em; fortunately, they don't drive.
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climberweenie
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jun 23, 2005 - 02:40am PT
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I lost a $30 green plastic and metal watch with brown canvas strap on first pitch of RA last weekend. Anyone find it?
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Dragon with Matches
climber
Bamboo Grove
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Jun 23, 2005 - 02:54am PT
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Chucked a full backpack off the summit of Pyramid Peak in 1996. Goretex, fleece, food, water, helmet, axe, car keys, wallet, license, cash, credit cards, girls' phone numbers, etc etc etc. Thought I'd drop it onto a ledge to make a little downclimb easier. Rolled off the ledge, slowly, out of view, into view, out of view, smaller and smaller, down a huge scree slope with cliff bands, 4,000 feet down into some river valley I don't even know how to approach. Minutes went by and I still could see a tiny dot bounding occasionally into view as it continued down. Made me feel pretty alone, won't soon forget that. Hitchhiked into Aspen wet, cold, with a raging hunger, thirst, and about 75 cents in my pocket. Somewhere there's a marmot wearing my jacket and running up bar bills on my Visa.
Hope all you find your wedding rings.
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ChoochCharlie
Trad climber
South East PA
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Jun 23, 2005 - 07:27am PT
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My wife knocked the diamond out of her ring while working at the barn. Called me frantic. I told her to sweep up all of the dirt in the area and bring it home. Being a dirt floored barn, she brought home two muck tubs filled to the rim, about 50 gallons worth of dirt.
I made a sift out of screen and wood and sat down in the basement for 2 hours. Found the diamond at the bottom of tub #1. A diamond never looked better than that moment.
Had her 4 prong Tiffany setting replaced with a bezel setting the next day.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jun 23, 2005 - 11:14am PT
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Climbing West Crack in Tuolumne about 10 years ago I was reaching into the cracks on the overhang section above the first belay bolts and the altimeter/watch I was wearing went airborne. Somehow I was watching its trajectory and saw the area at the terminus... we came back to the base to collect some stuff after the climb and I searched the landing area... found it. However I had written that watch off never believing I'd recover it. I don't wear watches since then.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 23, 2005 - 12:09pm PT
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I hate having anything at all on my hands - watches or rings. But I particularly despise the feel of rings and can't even imagine climbing with one on; gives me the willies just thinking about it. Fortunately I have an understanding wife who loves rings and wears enough of them for both of us. I have had a bunch of watches over the years, but would always take them off and rub my wrist whenever I sat down anywhere and so pretty much every single one of them ended up as tips in one restaraunt or another before I quit buying them. I just use my cell phone for the time these days.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Jun 23, 2005 - 12:22pm PT
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I am the same way, Healyje, except about the watch part. We had a single ring ceremony because I would literally never have worn one.
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OldEric
Trad climber
Westboro, MA
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Jun 23, 2005 - 12:43pm PT
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Most of us don't resort to chopping off our fingers to get out of it though Edge
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Jun 23, 2005 - 12:46pm PT
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That actually happened on the day of my third wedding anniversary; freaky, huh? But it was only the middle finger tip. The ring fingers remain intact.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jun 23, 2005 - 01:16pm PT
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I pawned my wedding ring in Toronto last summer. They weighed it and gave me the price for "scrap gold". Best damn fourteen bucks I ever got.
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imnotclever
climber
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Jun 23, 2005 - 02:27pm PT
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My first one was lost water skiing. I still have the second one. Fortunately my wife was at a bachelorette party and was really drunk when I told her. Good thing I didn’t lose her.
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poser
Trad climber
emporium, pa
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Jun 24, 2005 - 01:05am PT
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My partner dropped my point and shoot Olympus off the 3rd pitch of the Rostrum last summer. What do all you ladies do with your engagement rings while climbing (going on a long roadtrip with my soon to be fiance). I think I would feel nervous leaving it in the car as my family has had a couple of cars stolen, I am poor, and the ring was expensive.
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Texplorer
Trad climber
New to Las Vegas
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Jun 24, 2005 - 02:28am PT
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Two Words:
Boooo teeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
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Mountain Man
Trad climber
Outer space
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Jun 24, 2005 - 02:45am PT
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It was the best move, as he had no future either.
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Gunkie
climber
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Jun 24, 2005 - 10:19am PT
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Lost mine in the house after it had been off my finger for a few years. I had it on a hook on a shelf. Both my wife and I knew where it was... then one day it was gone. We keep thinking that it will turn up on of these days. I kind of think that 'Action Boy', our three year-old son, ate it and the ring now sits encased in a poopy diaper in some landfill.
I hate wearing any jewlery and don't believe a wedding ring has any real significance. And I think we have a great marriage.
One time, [circa 1987?] I dropped a sling off the top pitch of 'Te Dum' in the Gunks. It got hung up on a thin tree branch, about 40' off the deck. It was there until mid-2002, the last time I noticed it.
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Dr Von Boveridge
Trad climber
ca
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Jun 24, 2005 - 10:28am PT
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Hey that sucks mate i normally clip my wedding ring onto my chalk bag.
I got down from the Leaning Tower on Monday and found that i had dropped my lucky #4 on the way down. Normaly i would just put it down to thats just life but come on my lucky number 4!
If anyone has found it please drop me an email.
Its a Wild country forged #4 with blue tape.
Cheers
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Shack
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Jun 26, 2005 - 10:18pm PT
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Sorry Dr Von,
I was up there a couple times this week and all I bootied
was a #2 Rock (pink tape?)and a BD Wiregate biner w/ blue tape.
Very convienient since I use blue tape!
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 23, 2013 - 05:48pm PT
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Found yer ring. Email me!!
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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Dec 23, 2013 - 06:11pm PT
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8 years later and it is found? Pretty amazing. You should probably e-mail the OP as he may not browse here very often. Well done!
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splitter
Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Dec 23, 2013 - 06:19pm PT
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I dropped on the Nose, bitd!
Purple or orange something.
Edit: wasn't an accident, though!
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Nilepoc
Big Wall climber
Tx
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Dec 23, 2013 - 08:44pm PT
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I made a promise to always wear mine on some way. So here is my solution and chouinard jewelry solution.
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Dec 23, 2013 - 10:05pm PT
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High on a multi-pitch in the Potrero I reached in to my pocket for my chapstick and as I pulled it out a 200 peso bill went flying off into the wind. Don't carry $ with me any more when I climb--there's nothing to buy up there anyway.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Dec 23, 2013 - 10:33pm PT
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my wife and i deviated from
the prescribed cultural tradition
and instead bought each other motorhomes.
his
hers
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 23, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
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Weegie, you definitely don't want to drop one of those off the Captain!
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lucander
Trad climber
Shawangunks, New York
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Dec 23, 2013 - 11:58pm PT
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Awesome! Your ring lived longer than most marriages, I so hope it gets back to the OP. Supertopo at its best (even better than when it emboldens me to tie in for a lead).
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Mimi
climber
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:04am PT
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rgold, did you ever use a metal detector for your keys?
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 07:59am PT
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Anyone know Gha or how to get in touch with him? Tried the Taco email.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:05am PT
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Seriously.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:47am PT
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Found it right below the stovelegs on a biner just as he described. Tarnished but unblemished.
Divorce? You never know.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:55am PT
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Searched "lost ring", "wedding ring", "lost wedding ring" on this forum.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:57am PT
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Negative...
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Gha
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2013 - 10:21am PT
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Christmas eve, just waiting for the kids to wake up, so I grab the iPad to kill some time... Can't believe it! Be so psyched to get it back! The email on file here is no longer active...
Garrick
307-699-0799
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 10:25am PT
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Gha-how was the biner marked?
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Gha
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2013 - 10:31am PT
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Probably blue tape... Though 2005 So not sure. The ring has a Philippians reference inscribed inside, though might not be visible after nearly a decade!
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 10:49am PT
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner…
Does it look something like this??
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 24, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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The Taco never ceases to amaze me.
Wow!
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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Dec 24, 2013 - 10:54am PT
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Goosebumps and smiles....
~peace and congratulations!
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Gha
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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I don't believe it.... I've climbed in the valley probably a dozen times since losing it in August of 2004... Virtually every trip I hike to the base of the captain and look around just in case! I even considered getting a metal detector for the next trip... Given that it was on a biner I figured it would turn up eventually, but after 9 years I'd given up.
Btw, my wife and I are happier today in year 16 than we were year 1
Garrick
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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Geez, I thought Masta was having us on. I should have known better.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:18am PT
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This is a good thread.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:19am PT
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One of our people lost part of his finger/thumb up there. It was found and successfully reattached. (what ever happened to that Arron Ralston Thread?) got the axe?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:37am PT
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when I read the OP I thought "only hope is mastadon" and then, reading down to the thread I saw that indeed, mastadon had bumped the thread with his find...
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Dec 24, 2013 - 11:46am PT
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WOW......
Mr Harder, you are a gem...(-;
*Merry Christmas.. to you and Jane.
xo
nita..
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:03pm PT
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This is the COOLEST! Nice work, mastadon, and a climber's marriage that has endured. Awesome.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
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hey there say, and wow! great save... :)
great fun! and great new memories!
:)
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Dec 24, 2013 - 12:57pm PT
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WOW!
Mastadon's got some Smeagol in him!
Very, very cool.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:05pm PT
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This thread is so great. What a wonderful tribe! Yay mastadon!
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:08pm PT
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Merry XMas! haha!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:43pm PT
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So cool, it's a Christmas miracle!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:45pm PT
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And a Festivus Miracle!! :)
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 01:58pm PT
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Just sent off. Three day delivery...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:17pm PT
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So, Don, are the sordid details going into the Airplane Crash book as a
postscript or do we get to hear them in our lifetime?
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:28pm PT
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That is an awesome xmas story.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Dec 24, 2013 - 02:45pm PT
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Hilarious thread.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Dec 24, 2013 - 04:47pm PT
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Greatest x-mas story EEVVVVEEERRR. Congrats!
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labrat
Trad climber
Auburn, CA
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Dec 24, 2013 - 05:06pm PT
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Really Cool!
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Nilepoc
Big Wall climber
Tx
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Dec 24, 2013 - 05:11pm PT
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This story is so great. I just shared it with my wife and she was impressed that the site I waist so much time on could be so cool. Secret Santa wasn't enough to sway her opinion.
Congrats Gha.
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neverwas
Mountain climber
ak
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Dec 24, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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Great thread.
I found 'my' wedding ring on a popular bike trail in Moab, saw a bottle cap or something embedded in the dirt at the Klondike bluffs viewpoint bike rack, picked up a nice ring, fit perfectly. I'd lost my first at Sliding Rock in N Carolina, #2 was stolen from a swimming pool locker room and never replaced, so this one felt sort of like destiny, seeing that it was our 35th anniversary trip.
I'd like to report this somewhere, but no idea where. Anyone lose a ring while biking near Moab in October 2013?
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 24, 2013 - 08:55pm PT
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Merry Christmas to all!! Thx for the good words. You just can't make this stuff up.
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MisterE
climber
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Dec 24, 2013 - 09:13pm PT
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Good karma, Mastadon - your timing was perfect!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Dec 25, 2013 - 12:55am PT
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A few years back, there was a thread like this on sierra topix where a dude dropped his cammera near the top of the cables, and somebody eventually found the SD card at the base of SFHD.
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namascar
Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
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Dec 25, 2013 - 01:39am PT
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Very Cool!!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 25, 2013 - 05:05am PT
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Jennie lost the engagement ring (€3,600) in Dalkey before we moved to Wexford several months ago..
Sure wish we had Jen's ring back.
Good luck you all in finding lost items. Merry Christmas.
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Gha
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2013 - 10:50am PT
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Thought about replacing it several times over the past few years, after all I could actually afford a nice one now. But that would have been too easy. When I was 22, the 200 bucks I spent on that ring was a small fortune and everthing I had. Some things just can't be replaced.
I only wish they delivered the mail on Christmas! If any of you see mastadon, buy him a drink and send me the bill!
Merry Christmas all...
Garrick
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Dec 25, 2013 - 07:46pm PT
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I love this thread! Just bumping it up. Best holiday wishes to all!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 26, 2013 - 05:47am PT
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Dingus, your gold wedding band, wasn't it found by some prospectors and kicked off the California Gold Rush?
Some great stories on this thread. We will have not lost (pun intended) our humor.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Dec 27, 2013 - 12:40am PT
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And thank you very much for that, Clint!!
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Caz
Big Wall climber
Long Beach, CA.
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Dec 27, 2013 - 01:34am PT
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Wow Awesome thread!
Years ago I had a haul bag full of gear jacked from my car, a few weeks later someone posted up here that they found all my gear. It was the cop that busted the junkie that broke into my car.
Glad to hear you got your ring back. Good things come from the taco stand!
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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i haven't been on the taco in a few days, this is the first thread i picked to read, amazing.
Mr. Harder if you ever make it over to this side of the continent i have a list of things i would like you to find:
a money clip w/ $300 in it
a watch my mother gave me
a small screw to carburetor on log splitter
all were misplaced within a radius of 500 ft., all in the last 23 years and the top two for sentimental value, (the money clip) and the third because it made me mad.
thanks.
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Gha
Did u get the ring in the mail yet?
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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So awesome!!! WOW!
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go-B
climber
Hebrews 1:3
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precious!
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Haven't heard from him, Carter, so I'm assuming he got it…….
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Jan 14, 2014 - 02:16pm PT
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Got an email from Gha-he received his ring and is totally stoked!
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Jan 14, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
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Got an email from Gha-he received his ring and is totally stoked!
I'd imagine he is! We need photos...
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Jan 14, 2014 - 02:35pm PT
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OK, so, above Tafraoute in Morocco there's some crag, ferget which, 4th-classy approach pitch that was perhaps our actual first route on our honeymoon climbing trip, and as I sat down on the first belay stance the damn thing hopped off a locker on the back of my harness and that was all she wrote. Hunted for hours, never found it. Hopefully some goat herder boy will score it someday and buy himself some dinner or something. Unless this mastodon character finds himself in Maroc….
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Jan 23, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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Nice job, Mastadon!
I think you get a bunch of Karma points for stuff like this. Well done, sir.
And congrats, Garrick!
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Damian C
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 23, 2014 - 12:41pm PT
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Wow. You never know... Congratulations to Gha and his wife. And props to mastadon for the effort he made here.
This thread shows the real spirit of the climbing community. Truly amazing!
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Jan 23, 2014 - 01:09pm PT
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When I read what drljefe said
"WOW!
Mastadon's got some Smeagol in him!"
I almost spit my coffee out laughing.
Right on Mastadon, good on ya. So nice of you to do the research and happy Gha is reunited with his ring. What timing. Can you say synchronicity!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 23, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
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What a great story!!
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JZ
Trad climber
seattle
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Jan 23, 2014 - 03:28pm PT
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I lost my youth 15 years ago, could you find that for me?
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Jan 23, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
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What a great big smile-makin' story!
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Jan 23, 2014 - 08:43pm PT
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If I had any Smeagol in me I wouldn't have sent my precious away……..
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youri
climber
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Jan 23, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
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Wow! Cool story! :-))))
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Nov 26, 2014 - 04:01am PT
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Prior to the recovery of this ring, I advised Etowah County Officials to contact a fellow, who goes by the name of Mastadon in the Tahoe area, as he is an expert at recovering lost rings, especially those symbolic of a sacred union. At first they were hesitant, due to unusual "nickname"; but the bride to be was persistent in her demands that he be contacted.
Moments before the call to Tahoe was made, the ring was discovered.
http://www.abc3340.com/story/27481115/etowah-county-dive-team-recovers-engagement-ring-from-noccalula-falls
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Mr Tobias sir,
Please tell me that you were kidding. I HATE cold water.
How are you doing, BTW?
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Mr. Mastadon,
Don't "sweat" the cold water. Once I informed them of the criteria for calculating your fee, as well as your agents, they told me they would shut down the falls before contacting.
I'm doing fine, recouping from knee replacement surgery; which is slow and tedious. I hit 117º on the flexion gauge yesterday. Four more weeks and I can start pedaling my bike on the road; which is something to look forward to. I have a serious case of cabin fever.
Hope all is well with you and the mi-zəz.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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I lost my wife's wedding ring far from any cliff. Last I saw it was on her plumpy little hands. Please don't send it back.
Nice job Don.
For 100 years people threw their wedding rings in the Truckee River in Reno. Some kids started prospecting and pulled like $600,000 worth of old rings.
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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I lost my wedding ring somewhere in Canyonlands after leaving it stashed in the sidepocket of a backpack over three days of climbing. Discovered it missing several days later and a few hundred miles away.
Fast forward a year and some climber from CO discovered it partially buried at the base of one of the towers. Amazing.....
He wrote a story about it here......
http://mikeclimbsrocks.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-needle-in-haystack.html
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