Weird stuff thrown off a cliff while you were on it

I've been shot at while doing a route.

while bouldering in a creek bed kinda sorta under a bridge in Saluda North Carolina on a warm clear spring day, I fell off the wall into the water, as I walked back to the rock where my sandals, partners shoes, shirts etc. were sitting I heard breaking rock, dirt and trees. We both ran.  Two poplar trees roughly 1ft or more in diameter had broken on the steep hill above, come across the road and down into the creek bed completely burying our gear pile and spot we were standing just seconds earlier.  Apparently the water weight from the new leaf growth was to blame.  About a year later I returned to the spot and was able to dig up my partner's climbing shoes.  Never saw my chacos again though. Cool hun graffiti and a couple souper old climbing bolts down there.

jbak x wrote:

I've been shot at while doing a route.

Pray tell why...PAS thong? Chalk bag on a biner? Racking hexes?

Glad you're ok!

Sitting on the Coffin Stone at the Etive Slabs -- packing up for the day.  Snickers Bar slaps down right next to me within inches.  Guy yells down from one of the upper pitches of Spartan Slab asking about it -- asking me to save it for him when he gets down.  Yeah, right.  I ate it on the spot.

Andy Petersen wrote:

4' Black snake landed at our feet from 100' wall while we were getting ready to climb.  Amazingly enough it slowly woke up and slithered off about 20 min later.

Was this at bruise bros wall in RRG? Same exact thing happened to me 

One time I was climbing a short local cliff when rocks just kept coming from above over and over. Girlfriend climbed to the top and saw kids throwing them over. She told them to stop, and the mom was all like "ohhhhh they would never do that!"... As my girlfriend watched it happen... Lol  The cliff was only like 45 feet tall and there were around 15 of us down there being loud af. No way they didn't hear us down there.

Sheep, lots of sheep. Scary as hell! 

Climbing a super easy 10a or 9+, get to the 6th bolt or so and look up, and a substantial sized snake is cruising down the wall directly down the bolt line about 10 ft above me. This part of the wall is pretty much dead vert and I have no clue how it was down climbing. I end up shaking and waiting on some good holds for over 5mins until I realize he's spotted me and isn't going anywhere. So, I start blowing on him so he catches wind, he gets repulsed and starts trying to back up backwards. Then, this thing slips off and starts falling right over me, so I jump off trying to get him to miss, doesn't work. Before im caught, the snake had wrapped around my arm, until i sling it off directly around my leg where it then slips off and lands about 6ft from my belayer. So wild! Ended up just being a big rat snake as far as the people on the ground could tell. That satanic beast blew my onsight!!! Luckily got a nice soft catch, because I was handling some business and didn't even think about coming into the wall.

Buck Rio wrote:

The "no chalk ethic" hasn't been a thing in 25 years, there were a few people that tried to force it on others, but it never really caught on. 

Please reread my comment. Notice the "supposed" no chalk ethic. I was in on the first push back of "no chalk"

One time climbing epinephrine a nalgene filled with poop came flying down past me and exploded about a half a pitch below. 

DrRockso RRG wrote:

One time climbing epinephrine a nalgene filled with poop came flying down past me and exploded about a half a pitch below. 

lolololololol

1/2 of a hoagie

lots of rotten apples