I posted here 2 or so weeks ago about gear that my partner and I had to leave when we bailed off the Center Thumb up at Lone Peak, I can completely understand bootying "a" cam or some other singular piece, but we left 3 cams, 2 nuts, 7 biners, 2 cordolettes, what kind of.... I'm sure Karma will have its way with the "pirate" and in the meantime if you know where our gear is please let me know

Calm down now. Did you consider the possibility that the "pirate" doesn't ever look at MP or maybe even know about it?

Well, did you leave a sign saying please don't take this pile of very valuable stuff I have abandoned in the wilderness?

Your subject line is perfect! Really? As in "Really", you just created that post? "Really" you think this is a way to get what you want in life? "Really" you had to leave THAT much gear behind? "Really?"

I specifically look for postings of gear left on routes I want to do. It does two things: 1) helps me decide which line to take next and B) is a cheap way to fill out that all expensive desert rack.

Your gear is probably up there on the wall. It served its purpose which was to get you safely back to the ground.

Now quit bitching and quietly go away............................

If you wanted to keep that stuff, you shouldn't have left it on that mountain for 2 weeks.

Two weeks later and you have not hiked your sorry ass up there to retrieve it yourself, yet expect someone who just happened to be up there and just happened to climb the route and just happened to read mtn proj. and just happened to read about your personal unspecified epic to return the gear ASAP.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Hmmm.... Do clarify please. Did you go back up to get your gear and it was gone, or are you just pissed that no one got it for you and then posted it here?? If you leave bail gear on a route, I think its fair game... If you wanted it back you should have been back up there ASAP. Its fair to ask if anybody is kind enough to have retrieved it and wants to give it back to you, but you can't expect that. That certainly doesn't qualify as "pirating."

no, really, we need to give him his stuff back guys....

I've got one of your cordalettes I think. I'm pretty sure a bird was making a nest out of it when I rescued the silken strand from the raptor's clutches. you can come pick it up from me whenev!
love,
Phil

Geeze, tough crowd.

But still, can't expect bail gear back. It's just luck of the draw that you get a understanding/non-dirtbag climber.

I check MP several times a day for these reasons in this order (least to most).

Nothing else to do.
Thought provoking climbing info/stories/beta.
Great pics of people pulling down.
Unrelenting sarcasm. God bless the facetiousness that drips from this site.

Love it. Cheers.

Richard you make a great point, the person may not even check mp, as for getting our gear back a friend was planning on and did climb the route 4 days after we did, we had thanked him and promised to reward him as well for the favor of getting it back, when he went back it was already gone, I initially posted a "If you have our gear I am happy to pay a reward in beer or cash."

I'm under the impression that MP is a great resource, beta, questions, etc, on our local page people post nearly every week about found gear

that's the risk you take when climbing - that you might have to bail and leave stuff.

ARRRR, Matey

Now be a good pirate and go pillage Boulder.

(btw, I left a double-wide portaledge, 12 screws, a couple of Cobras, 3 #5 camalots, and nice big haul bag at Neptunes; could someone return those to me?)

Maybe next time you should just downclimb it lol.

if you leave gear, you can't expect it to be there later. ive left gear on a number of routes in yos, if never expected for someone to give it back. and at the same time i have gladdly taken booty that if have found.
B-B-BOOOTY!!!

I left a greasy paper sack full of cash and diamonds on 23rd avenue and Van Buren. I came back four days later and some asshole had stolen it. What is this world coming to?

I found about 15 ft of webbing and a beat up non-locking biner on Empress (Chapel Pond Slab, NY) a couple weeks ago. My partner took the webbing but if you want your bail biner back and can prove it was yours let me know :)

I don't know. Maybe next time you have to bail just "JUMP"!
really...........

You leave bail gear, its gone. You don't bitch. You find bail gear, you choose what to do with it. It's the natural order.

I left two ropes stuck on Babo this last winter. Let's see, did I bitch about it or do something about it? I went back within 5 days, drove four hours each way, hiked in did the climb again and got back my stuff. And what have you done but spew crap about nobody returning your gear. Here is some advice: quit bitchin' and get off your ass and go get it you pathetic whiner!!

I remember the days before the net and mp.com when you bailed on gear, you either lost it or you hiked back up the next morning to go get it...Those also were the days where booty was booty gear and wasn't posted on a forum for return in exchange for beer...So I am unsure why people expect to have gear returned to them at all...

Don't get me wrong it's nice, but when I got a stopper stuck last week on white whale, I didn't post up for it's return, just went and bought a new one...

If anyone yanked a #4 BD Stopper off the first pitch of white whale in Lumpy, I would love to get it back in exchange for...ha ha

Here is the all time best booty thread...super funny!

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/lost_and_found/lost_chalk/1>>>>>




Professor, what's the word for pirate treasure?

Well I think it's booty, booty, booty....that's what it is!

Now I feel way guilty.

I found an ice screw and locker on Mont Blanc du Tacul. If you can identify the brand and color of webbing, please claim it. I've had it more than 10 years and still don't know what to do with it...

One of my unnamed climbing buddies (Mike) has a booty sling that he knows belongs to a VERY famous climber, but he refuses to return it. So there.