Missed Beer Connection: Scrawny White Guy in Yellow T-Shirt

The thread got deleted before I could send you a PM, and I don't remember your last name. I would like to follow through on my offer of sending you some liquid gratitude for your magnaminity. Shoot me a PM, and may tha gotez be ever in your favor.

Good on you Fritz.
That soul deserves the libation.

It is I! the scrawny white booty pirate o' cathedral peak. Yarr! ye be warned! 

Scrawny White Guy in a Yellow Shirtwrote:

It is I! the scrawny white booty pirate o' cathedral peak. Yarr! ye be warned! 

Hoist the mizzenmast! PM sent hard to starboard.

"Hoist the mizzenmast"---good thing you are a climber, not a sailor!! 

I retract my statement on the og dumpster fire thread, this is getting good… maybe there’s still some soap opera potential after all 

Leave a Pabst Blue Ribbon at the belay ledge for the last pitch, don't clip it to anything. Scrawny white booty pirate will be along Sunday afternoon to collect!  

Just when the other thread was gettin' good.

What thread got deleted by the big green head?  

Alan Rubinwrote:

"Hoist the mizzenmast"---good thing you are a climber, not a sailor!! 

At least I didn’t call a line a rope! Made that mistake once … by their able-bodied, weathered faces, you would’ve thought I had said “off belay” in Rifle. 

F r i t zwrote:

At least I didn’t call a line a rope! Made that mistake once … by their able-bodied, weathered faces, you would’ve thought I had said “off belay” in Rifle. 

Haha, when I was up there in northern Michigan, we went out on my mom & her husband's little boat a couple times, and her husband basically said, "I know you call these ropes, but they are lines here."

I’m guessing the OP for that now deleted thread will be cleaning gear and taking it with her, rather than leaving it unclipped “for less rope drag”(!!!) and the second to hopefully find! Lesson learned.

edit - good thing that “scrawny” guy, who did the Tuolumne Triple in 5 hrs to the top of Cathedral, looking at his MP comments, is nice enough to post here and return her gear :-)

Terry Ewrote:

I’m guessing the OP for that now deleted thread will be cleaning gear and taking it with her, rather than leaving it unclipped for the second to hopefully find! Lesson learned.

Since I climb in Tuolumne and am familiar with the Cathedral scene, I followed the deleted thread. I don't have skin in the game and don't know either person. It's interesting to me how the "public opinion" becomes so one-sided.

To be fair to OP, it was obvious from the thread that there was at least another party that climbed through their rope. The cam was not unclipped by her or her partner. The partner probably would have cleaned the piece if it had been left in place for them to clean. 

Also to be fair to OP, from her perspective, the guy asked about every loose piece that was sitting at the base of the summit when apparently there were multiple people around (and did claim ownership), so he appeared to be on a gear hunt. The fact that she told him the #1 below would be hers if it was next to their pink rope and it still disppeared after the guy downclimbed past it, if any of you were in her shoes, I have no doubt that you would call that theft as well. 

Okay, the guy clarified that he didn't need the cam despite taking it and he didn't hear her claim ownership of the #1. It was all just mis-communication, so let's treat it so. 

Personally, I'd say, the lesson learned could also be: if you encounter unclipped gear and there are other parties around, whether anyone is within sight or not, do not proceed to "clean" the gear and take with you. Leave them be.

I've free solo'ed Cathedral many years (okay, decades) ago myself. Recently, I went to solo it after traversing Matthes, I counted more than 10 people on the route while on my approach. I simply went for a hike. It is common knowledge that on easy popular routes, there might be more abandoned gear from inexperienced climbers, but that's not why I climb. I know inexperienced climbers get more nervous when they are climbing around a free-soloist. There are so many moderate routes to free solo in the area, why add to the mad cluster? 

Scrawny White Guy in a Yellow Shirtwrote:

It is I! the scrawny white booty pirate o' cathedral peak. Yarr! ye be warned! 

As your user name is rather generic  , you need to change it to "Scrawny White Guy in a Yellow T-Shirt". That will make it easier for folks to remember.