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What's the strangest/most interesting booty you have found while out climbing?

mtoensing · · AZ · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 705

I climbed comic relief in the black with my buddy scott. After simuling the slabs at the end, I put him on belay at a large ledge near the rappel. This is a fairly common ledge to stop at to make a belay. I looked down and I see 2 extendable runners with 2 biners on them still. I had a closer look and the rack tag on it was identical to scott's and there was a biner with a rack tag of scott's roommate.

Interesting?

I thought about the last time scott had gone down there. It was last fall, maybe mid september. When scott got up there, he instantly recognised the gear as his and his roommates. Turns out his roommate had left the slings on the ledge and by some miracle no one climbing two of the most traveled routes in the black seemed to find them on this huge ledge in plain sight. They also survived the winter.

Allen Hill · · FIve Points, Colorado and Pine · Joined Jun 2004 · Points: 1,410

A all too successful suicide victim. He did pick a place with an amazing view to do the deed. I kid not.

Bill Duncan · · Glade Park, CO · Joined Mar 2005 · Points: 3,410

As long as we're on the morbid twist, I arrived at the base of Cynical Pinnacle once in February to find the personal effects of the previous party, and ropes strung up the face to the east of the Center Route. There had been a fatality there the weekend prior, and no one had cleaned up anything but the real gory stuff. The impact zone was not pretty, even though they had removed the remains.

There's something sobering about knowing you're the first party to climb the thing after something like that.

Moof · · Portland, OR · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 25

Draw, hat, and sunglasses on Cat in the Hat. Out guess is the poor bastard dropped the draw, and lost the rest dangling upside down with the draw just out of reach...

Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520

The strangest thing I ever found climbing was a little stuffed animal that looked like a mouse but lacked arms and legs. Inside of him was a squeaky toy. He had a tail like a mouse, too. I found him at the Seismic Wall in Austin, TX. He was exactly like a cartoon my friend Nick had drawn.

So, I took him to Potrero Chico and hung him in the tree by the pool at Homero's. The next time I went down he was gone, hopefully taken to yet another destination. I drew a short cartoon about him and gave him the name Pookini, a sort of combination of Houdini and Pookie.

As for the sex photos, a female friend of mine was climbing down in Mexico with her new boyfriend and they suggested I take a few shots with their camera. I took about five and reviewed one to see if it had been blurry. Hmm, that isn't the shot I just took. That's the boyfriend's smiling face buried between her...er....

OK, let's take s'more climbing pictures.

Tony B · · Around Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 24,665
Bill Duncan wrote:As long as we're on the morbid twist, I arrived at the base of Cynical Pinnacle once in February to find the personal effects of the previous party, and ropes strung up the face to the east of the Center Route. There had been a fatality there the weekend prior, and no one had cleaned up anything but the real gory stuff. The impact zone was not pretty, even though they had removed the remains. There's something sobering about knowing you're the first party to climb the thing after something like that.
+2X. Once on Calypso ~12+ years ago, and once on West Chimney.
I found out only later that the second one was a friend of mine.
That's heavy stuff. I hope that very few people ever have this happen to them, be it a friend or not, because if or not you were a friend is not that relevant. It was someone's friend/son/father/husband/wife/daughter/mother/etc...
Suzy N · · Broomfield, CO · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 25
Peeps doing what rabbits do so well

I believe that is the same Peep that we left on the rocks at the Bank in privacy so that they can do what rabbits are supposed to do...glad he found a roomier home.
Tony B · · Around Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 24,665

Ok, Well, Peeps have a history with me.
There was this one on the red wall:

A Marshmellow Peeps doll was doing a double-kneebar bat-hang under the roof above the crux on the Red Wall. He was so solid and stoic- he just kept staring at us. Photo by Tony Bubb, 7/08.
And he stayed in that knee-bar mocking me for so long about endurance...

Mock me if you must, but it comes with a price...
Revenge step 1: Develop concept.
Revenge Step 2: Test Concept
Revenge, step 3- Implement concept
Revenge Step 4: Let someone else do the dirty work, and Enjoy.

I don't expect that pink rabbit to ever mock a climber again.

coop Best · · Glenwood Springs, CO · Joined Jan 2005 · Points: 485

The strangest, Top of Estralita in Potrero
small flip book of sexual positions, pipe, baggie, and lighter

Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,520
coop wrote:The strangest, Top of Estralita in Potrero small flip book of sexual positions, pipe, baggie, and lighter
Estrellita is often the repository of strange things. I think I got this little, weird alien action figure from the summit there. Instead of a regular, round head it has a coat hanger hook head with three eyes and no mouth.
Adam Paashaus · · Greensboro, NC · Joined May 2007 · Points: 791

A couple weeks ago My wife and I went up to the Ironclads near Allenspark to have a short day of cragging with the baby(don't judge me, we were safe with her and had a third person). Well, we lost her pacifier somewhere so before we left I did a sweep of all the areas we had been. Well...I did not find her pacifier but in my search I found, believe it or not, another damn pacifier. Serious! We boiled it at home an now use it. Pretty even trade id say. I couldn't believe it myself.

adam winslow · · Fort Collins, CO · Joined Jun 2008 · Points: 1,305

Climbing in Yosemite this May I saw that someone had left a red tricam at the first belay of The Grack Center. I left it there and went about my climbing for the week and returned the last day of the trip for a quick lap before leaving. Tricam was still there and it wasn't very stuck either as I pried it loose in less than a minute. I'm not sure how long that thing had been there or how many climbers passed by without even trying to booty it but tricams get no love.

Rob P · · Duluth, MN · Joined Sep 2008 · Points: 458
Stich wrote: Estrellita is often the repository of strange things. I think I got this little, weird alien action figure from the summit there. Instead of a regular, round head it has a coat hanger hook head with three eyes and no mouth.
On the top of Black Cat Bone in the summit registry, I found a huge joint, must have been at least a gram. Written on it was : "Mexican Schwag: Toke with caution". (it wasn't that bad)

Also in Potrero, those who have climbed Yankee Clipper have seen the very odd stash of stuff at the belay after the 3rd class pitch. Items include a captain hook action figure, bottles of tequilla, old ice axe, medical cream, hooks, statues of Mary and Jesus, and many other relics.
Niccole Schmeer · · Denver, CO · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 85

I found my boyfriend at a crag - never met him - just found him. Probably not that interesting though.

Wendy Laakmann · · Bend, OR · Joined Dec 2005 · Points: 5

At the base of Touchstone. We fixed the first couple of pitches, camped for the night and returned in the AM to jug and go. Got to the base in the early morning darkness, only to find the slack from our lines tied into two nooses, hanging from a tree. Totally freaked us out. We actually had a discussion about whether it was a sign that we should pull the ropes and leave. Ended up going, but there was a strange energy the whole day.

Tom Grummon · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 30

Damn apparently Clear Creek Canyon is way too climbed. I've never found anything cool.

At the top of Table mountain once we found a whole bunch of pro placed every 30' or so at the base of the cliff like easter eggs. We though people were climbing the wrong way. Turns out it was just a class.

Moof · · Portland, OR · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 25

Found a whole pitch of gear on the first pitch of WFLT. Dozen or more draws, screamer, and an alien. It perplexed us greatly for the whole route.

Later I tracked down the owner, and the story was less epic than we feared. He was soloing, and the soloist above him clogged things badly. When he rapped he left the know on the wrong side of the rings. Being disgusted by the whole affair he just said "F$#@ it!" and left the gear.

After I mailed his gear back he sent me a big fat check for $150. I tore it up, I need the karma more than the bucks.

Adrian Johnson · · Oakland, CA · Joined Aug 2006 · Points: 0

Found a quarter keg on the the big pitch 2 ledge on Moby Grape. The thoughtless bastards didn't leave a tap though.

.......... · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2010 · Points: 5

I found a bail biner on the FIRST bolt of Potholes....

Jeff Lea · · Fairfield, CT · Joined Jun 2011 · Points: 0

The quarter keg on Moby Grape was probably left in preparation for the Swamp Donkey Disco, which used to be an annual summer evening event for some of the local lads and lasses.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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