What's the strangest/most interesting booty you have found while out climbing?
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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. |
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A all too successful suicide victim. He did pick a place with an amazing view to do the deed. I kid not. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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Ok, Well, Peeps have a history with me. |
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The strangest, Top of Estralita in Potrero |
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coop wrote:The strangest, Top of Estralita in Potrero small flip book of sexual positions, pipe, baggie, and lighterEstrellita 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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I found my boyfriend at a crag - never met him - just found him. Probably not that interesting though. |
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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. |
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Damn apparently Clear Creek Canyon is way too climbed. I've never found anything cool. |
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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. |
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Found a quarter keg on the the big pitch 2 ledge on Moby Grape. The thoughtless bastards didn't leave a tap though. |
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I found a bail biner on the FIRST bolt of Potholes.... |
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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. |