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Scooter12ga
Jun 3, 2010, 7:24 PM
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welle wrote: If it was bail booty, wouldn't they have biners on them?
Mystery indeed!
I've wondered the same. One was practially falling out of the crack. No coercion necessary. The other was set good but not stuck by any means. If the 2nd could unclip and remove the biners, certainly they could remove at least the first nut. Also, they were so close together that the wires could overlap for a rappel.
My self-indulging theory: Climber rapped off of the one nut setting it good, the redundant wire was never loaded.
<Let me feel special for a couple of days, eh?  >
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patmay81
Jun 3, 2010, 8:55 PM
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wow, this thread goes way back.
I may have told this story before; I found a bail biner at the top of a route. there was poison oak at the anchor chains, and it looked like when they realized it they clipped the chains with whatever they had and bailed. It turned out to be a nearly new BD locker.
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Arrogant_Bastard
Jun 4, 2010, 4:13 AM
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Scooter12ga wrote: First bootay! My first bootay evar! #4 and #6 BD nuts at the crux of a 5.8 - bail bootie apparently as they weren't even close to being stuck.
All excited to get your first booty and next thing you know you find yourself standing there with someone else's nuts in your hand.
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sungam
Jun 4, 2010, 1:16 PM
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Scooter12ga wrote: welle wrote: If it was bail booty, wouldn't they have biners on them? Mystery indeed! I've wondered the same. One was practially falling out of the crack. No coercion necessary. The other was set good but not stuck by any means. If the 2nd could unclip and remove the biners, certainly they could remove at least the first nut. Also, they were so close together that the wires could overlap for a rappel. My self-indulging theory: Climber rapped off of the one nut setting it good, the redundant wire was never loaded. <Let me feel special for a couple of days, eh? >
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sungam
Jun 5, 2010, 5:59 PM
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acorneau wrote: sungam wrote: Texas rope trick? Yikes! I would not want to put a sling directly on a nut's wire. That's just asking for it. 
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desertwanderer81
Jun 16, 2010, 6:42 PM
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After reading this thread, I'm just surprised how many more carabiners than nuts/cams have been bootied! Personally, my booty count is much higher in the the pro category than the carabiner category.
Maybe I'm just slack and don't get out on the rock early enough in the morning ;)
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caughtinside
Jun 16, 2010, 7:33 PM
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Yeah, I always seem to pick up way more biners. My last three day trip netted 1 nut, 1 sling and 5 biners.
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the_climber
Jun 17, 2010, 1:32 AM
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Best Recent booty:
A KB pin on a tattered sun faded sling that was stiff as a board... Bootied it on a new line, only to discover it was a pin that my partner had left while bailing on the cliff 30 years ago. Same webbing, same knot, and same etched pin.
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brokesomeribs
Jun 18, 2010, 6:01 AM
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Cool story. I love historical significance like that!
I was walking on the approach today, looked down, and found a brand new, sealed Chocolate Brownie ClifBar! Tastiest booty I've ever snagged 
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rangerrob
Jun 18, 2010, 8:47 PM
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My best booty day was scoring a #3 and #4 Camalot off of Reppy Crack within 10' of each other. The #3 wasn't even stuck, just had to pull the trigger, turn it around, and it popped out. #4 I actually had to hang on the rope and work it for about 3 minutes. Both pieces were essentially brand new.
RR
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patmay81
Jun 18, 2010, 8:50 PM
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just snagged a couple of locking biners at a local sport crag. why everyone bails off lockers there I'll never understand, but it seems every time I climb there I come home with at least one.
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acorneau
Aug 20, 2010, 3:20 PM
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Got back from a climbing trip in Big and Little Cottonwood, SLC this past week. (Trip report coming hopefully this weekend.)
Gave up a #3 wired hex, #7 WC nut and a biner while bailing.
Picked up a red DMM nut and an orange/yellow U-stem #2 Camalot.
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cantbuymefriends
Aug 26, 2010, 11:59 AM
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Old #3 DMM Wallnut with kinked wire.
Shining new BD Positron screwgate biner. 
BD #3 Stopper.
Peeps don't bail often enough around here...
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climbingtrash
Aug 26, 2010, 5:18 PM
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cantbuymefriends wrote: Old #3 DMM Wallnut with kinked wire. Shining new BD Positron screwgate biner. BD #3 Stopper. Peeps don't bail often enough around here...
Yur post iz worthless without pics...
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malcolm777b
Aug 27, 2010, 2:28 AM
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I found the ultimate booty: a blue/black alien hybrid with little sign of wear. That could fetch me, what, at least $100 on eBay right now?
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suprasoup
Aug 27, 2010, 6:33 AM
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Found some more gear the last couple of outings.
A few nuts, a #4 Forged Friend, a dyneema sling, rap ring, Trango wiregate biner.
a previous gen .4 BD Camalot.
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the_climber
Sep 1, 2010, 4:34 PM
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Cool booty, but that "forged Friend" looks more like a milled Ridged Friend... pre-Forged Friend production.
If only I could have all my gear back that others have dropped or left.... I'd have a second rack.
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rock_fencer
Sep 1, 2010, 6:01 PM
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no pics but i picked up a #13 and #8 nut and three slings at Hawksbill NC last month, and got handed a beautiful red metolius 4cu from a partner who bootied it at Moores wall and didnt want it. Easiest booty i've ever come by!
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suprasoup
Sep 3, 2010, 8:28 AM
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csproul wrote: suprasoup wrote: Edit: on a side note. I did pick up a petzl attache that someone bailed off of. Crazy asshat slung a shitty horn with an even shittier sling. But at least they used a locker!
There is that
On the flip side it's a remarkably similar size to my BD mini pear locker. Made for a nice back up at the anchors today.
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walkonyourhands
Sep 3, 2010, 10:57 AM
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sungam wrote: acorneau wrote: sungam wrote: Texas rope trick? Yikes! I would not want to put a sling directly on a nut's wire. That's just asking for it. You can Texas rope trick a biner back.
Ok, please enlighten me, I just don't see it happen.
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Mark_Hudon
Nov 10, 2010, 7:49 PM
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I recently had to leave a couple of Metolius Cams and a bunch of biners on the last pitch of The Shield, below the last roof. It's all fair game bootie but I lost one biner that I'd really like back. It's an old SMC Oval that has my initials, MH, stamped in it twice, once in small letters and again in larger letters. I've had this biner since I started climbing in 1974 and I'd really appreciate it if I got it back. I'll even pay for shipping.
If anyone goes up on the Shield and gets that stuff, if anyone hears about someone going up there, I'd really appreciate an email.
Thanks,
Mark Hudon
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esander4
Nov 11, 2010, 5:20 AM
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Got some good stuff at Golden Cliffs yesterday. I went the day after a good rain (which turned into a snow, and the next day was 60 degrees and sunny. Colorado weather is so unpredictable).
Medium sized nut (can't tell the brand or number, it's pretty worse for the wear)
1 dyneema sling, pretty good shape
couple feet of webbing and a rap ring
A #00 Metolius TCU that was literally just caught in the branches of a tree. The odd part? The tree was about 20 feet from the base of the route. My partner climbed the tree and got it, but i gave him shit because I paid for gas to get there and he gave it to me
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