Coolest thing that ever happened at your crag

Any good stories? Maybe a famous climber visited or a decade-old project got sent?

I led my first 5.9 on gear and Lynn Hill showed up at the base just as I was finishing the pitch.

Unfortunately, I wasn't there to see it.

Did my first 13 with Dani Andrada and crew present nine years ago in el salto. Lowered off and got a fist bump from Dani memorable to say the least for me.

There was absolutely nobody there, and the weather was perfect to go up the same 5.7 I went up almost  every time I went there

I'll add. I haven't heard of many things that have happened at (what I consider) my local crag except for some hard sends that I didn't see, but I've had some great times up there and I've gotten to see friends progress which was pretty cool!

One time I went to my local crag and there wasn’t a single dog. Immaculate day to say the least.

Fred Beckey showed up at Ship Rock, NC, and laughed at a joke I made. This was around 1986.

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though I’m not sure it falls under category of “cool”. I mean, it definitely was cool that no one died. But it wasn’t cool at all that the rescue was needed in the first place.

To commemorate this event, there is an annual “Breakfast Burrito” speed competition at Rocktoberfest. The winner is the person who can untie/thread the anchors/re-tie while hanging one-handed. Competition is held a foot off the ground, instead of the anchors of the namesake climb.

Back around 1985 or so I was climbing at Big Rock in SoCal. For those that know it, at that time English Hanging Gardens was a pretty hard climb with a bouldery start.  Watched as Jerry  Moffat floated it solo.  I wondered what the hell Moffat was doing at such a low profile crag.

I'm newer to trad climbing and I was halfway up a route recently, about to start some variation when a man walks by below and exchanges a hello with my partner. The man looks up at me and asks which route I'm about to do. I tell him, he looks at the gear on my harness, says something like it not being enough gear or the right gear or something. I decide to bail based on that advice, especially since the route was right at my onsight level. By the time I get down the man is gone. There was no one else at the crag that day and we didn't see the dude the rest of the day or since then.

Funny to think that some kind of crag spirit just popped in real quick and saved me from a potential bad time.

Carderock will always have the distinction of being the place where Sharma repeatedly fell off a 12d on top rope, at a point in his career when he had recently sent Jumbo Love
https://youtu.be/SMWc-CKshO8

I unwittingly showed up among the people waiting to try a boulder problem in some guy's YouTube video...

Grunting while hauling myself over the lip, I came face to face with a father and his pre-school son. Kid looks at me, points over to the ski slope a couple hundred yards away, and dead seriously says, "you know mister, you can just walk up over there"

Keith Wood wrote: Fred Beckey showed up at Ship Rock, NC, and laughed at a joke I made. This was around 1986.

Fred Becky came into our camp in the Tetons to borrow a spoon. 

I woke up from sleeping in my car one time in yosemite and this guy walks by who looks familiar. He walks by again and still half asleep I yell “you look like tommy Caldwell”. He laughed and waved at my with his missing finger hand!

Took a solo lap on Castle Rock (Leavenworth) after work, topped out just as a small earthquake hit.  The sound reverberated through the canyon and the crag felt like it was moving like Jell-O.   

I was getting ready to climb a route, and then there was this guy about to do a route next to me, and I was like, are you jplotz, and he was like yep, and I was like, right on, and then we proceeded to climb. 

Zach Holt wrote: I was getting ready to climb a route, and then there was this guy about to do a route next to me, and I was like, are you jplotz, and he was like yep, and I was like, right on, and then we proceeded to climb. 

Cherish that moment in your life Zach.

Lena chita wrote: There was this one time when Patxi Usobiaga saved a kid.

though I’m not sure it falls under category of “cool”. I mean, it definitely was cool that no one died. But it wasn’t cool at all that the rescue was needed in the first place.

To commemorate this event, there is an annual “Breakfast Burrito” speed competition at Rocktoberfest. The winner is the person who can untie/thread the anchors/re-tie while hanging one-handed. Competition is held a foot off the ground, instead of the anchors of the namesake climb.

That story has traveled around climber's campfires for while - you witness an historic event.

I've heard it told by 2 different people on 2 different climbing trips. One called the route "Berreta Supreme" and not Breakfast Burrito but the rest of the story being very similar, I'm pretty sure he was talking about that event.

I was starting a 5.8, maybe its a 5.7 that notoriously has some much harder moves right off the ground during a spell of nice weather in February, so I hadn't climbed much in a couple months. I'd make a move or 2 and lose the sequence and come back down, and then I'd make a move or 2 and lose the sequence and come back down. This repeated itself for 20-30 minutes while these 2 20-somethings looked on. They didn't say anything but you could tell that they were like "WTF bro can't even climb a 5.8"
I offered to let them have the route since I was obviously flailing but they declined.
Finally got it, my wife climbed and cleaned, and we jumped on the next route as the 2 bros were roping up on the route we just climbed. First bro walks up, makes a move or 2 and comes back down and does the same thing I did, except that his partner is giving him shit for not getting it.  So the first guy says fuck it, you try and they switch ends on the rope. The 2nd bro does the same thing while being harassed by first bro.
By this time my wife and I are warmed up and have ticked off 2 or 3 other routes on the same little wall.
The 2 bros end up giving up, packing up and walking away without the send.

Is it something that will change the world? No, but it made me feel better about myself.