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crackers
Jan 18, 2006, 3:01 PM
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Irene's Arete. More than 10 cams...We found one every 20 meters and stopped counting by the time we reached the top.
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lostdog
Jan 18, 2006, 3:08 PM
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seems peculiar... by the way you didn't happen to find some bodies under the route did you? all in all i'd have to say nice score.
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granite_grrl
Jan 18, 2006, 3:09 PM
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In reply to: Irene's Arete. More than 10 cams...We found one every 20 meters and stopped counting by the time we reached the top.
Fixed cams, or were you able to booty them?
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happiegrrrl
Jan 18, 2006, 3:15 PM
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Where is the location and how long is that route???? 10 cams, every 20 meters? No other gear? If this is true, it sounds like the n00b climber's version of the breadcrumb trail in Hansel and Gretl!
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csproul
Jan 18, 2006, 3:22 PM
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Two Camalots left at a belay with nice new cordalette. They weren't stuck, and they were at the top of a route with an easy walkoff, so they weren't left to bail off, someone just left without them. And this wasn't in a location that someone was coming back for them any time soon. That's the best score I have come by.
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kovacs69
Jan 18, 2006, 3:31 PM
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Didn't find on a route. I was at J-Tree walking around some random outcropping. There hanging in a bush was a set of stoppers. Walked about 10 more feet and there was a cam. 10 more feet and there was a cleaning tool. This continued until I had collected a nice little rack. I believe someone had walked off with their pack open or with a hole in it. I didn't keep the booty though...turned it into the ranger station.
My good deed for the trip.
JB
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hoofers_andy
Jan 18, 2006, 3:34 PM
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number three camalot with a quickdraw AND racking biener still attached. it was only like 20 ft up a 5.9 too :D
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crackers
Jan 18, 2006, 3:44 PM
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It was august in the tetons, so we figured some nut job bailed in a thunderstorm. A few aliens, a number of those hb quadcams, three camalots...one or two were 'stuck' but it only took a few minutes to clean them.
we left a note at the bottom, at the ferry and at the hut. Never heard from anybody, so we kept them.
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tattooed_climber
Jan 18, 2006, 3:46 PM
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during a bail:
4 new chalk balls,
4 hexs
5 nuts
2 slings (one being a new double length)
2 belay devices
2 biners
all as a gift for me packin some garbage off the chief
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fearlessclimber
Jan 18, 2006, 3:48 PM
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I found a brand new # 5 camalot way down benteh some boulders at beardsbly boulder pile. The shine caght my eye, took about 15 minutes to get it though, it was way down there, brand new. It must have fallen out of someones pack or they couldnt get it, i would never give up if if that thing fell down there, yeah. That will add to my collection
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mcfoley
Jan 18, 2006, 4:19 PM
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3 "trad draws" (on bolts
.75 camalot (unfixed)
Belay device w/ locker in a bush
cordalette
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clymber
Jan 18, 2006, 4:24 PM
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.75 bd cam with biner
10 draws in a bag at base of climb
to many nuts and biners to count
thing that boggles my mind is when you read some lost and found post on other sites people finding ropes and crash pads.....sort of think it would be obvious that you arent carrying those 2 things
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billl7
Jan 18, 2006, 4:42 PM
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Once I saw a trio arrive at the base of a climb and they found that the crack in the dihedral was sewn up with nuts and cams with runners and biners all the way to the top of the first pitch; but no rope running through them. We had to break the dream and tell them we had left the gear so that I could lead it without placing pro. :)
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tradklime
Jan 18, 2006, 8:14 PM
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Well, how about the most in one bootied anchor. I once came across a collection of three cams, 3 nuts, 7 biners, 2 shoulder length slings, and one cordalette. One stop shopping.
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leewee
Jan 18, 2006, 8:55 PM
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i havent made any huge scores but one that comes to mind is when i was soloing an easy rt. and came across a nut slightly stuck about 80ft up... i wrestled with it for a while and eventualy got it...all i could think of was something a friend told me a long time ago "never solo for booty" and also the irony if i fell while cleaning this thing...they find me on the ground with pro in hand...
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jeremy11
Jan 18, 2006, 9:19 PM
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my best so far was soloing a 5.6 which I often jog up after a day of climbing at the new river gorge. I top out on a nice ledge where the anchors are and there in a horizontal about knee height is a #2 tricam in good condition stuck in nut mode... at the anchors (cold shuts) on a 5.6 at the NRG... I've soloed this route in 3 min 30 seconds car to car, and I'm no hotshot either. so I jogged back to the car and got my harness to clip in just to be safe, a couple nut tools, a big hex and a little hammer, and after some experimenting, out she comes!! I suppose some newbie was backing up the cold shuts for a top rope anchor...
I had the chance to bootie a brand new #2 C4 (with some biners and slings on it) on chapel pond slab regular rt. that the party right ahead of us had left since the last guy up said it was "stuck" the leader said they were coming back that way anyway, so I figured I'd throw them for a loop and clean it ( it came with just a couple good yanks) and then place it right.
they'd better have come back for it!! sure would have liked to see the conversation between the one guy claiming it was stuck and the obvious situation of it being totally unstuck... :lol:
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sixleggedinsect
Jan 21, 2006, 8:25 AM
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i climbed black orpheus this spring. the weather wasn't ideal, super windy and cloudy, and my partner wasn't quite as quick as i thought she woudl be. anyways, i was in go-fast mode all day and coudln't stop to fiddle with gear.
most painful climb ive ever done, probably.
i passed almost two racks of cams on the way up that thing, the majority of which would come easily with a couple minutes. managed to pull a couple out just passing by them, but if it didnt come immediately, i just left it.
the pain! oh the misery!
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