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caughtinside
Jul 24, 2006, 9:19 PM
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It's always fun to talk about Booty. I want to hear about when you Got Some!
My tally for the weekend was 2 biners, one sling, and 3 nuts. Not bad!
My tally since January is 13 biners, 2 lockers, 4 slings, 11 nuts, 2 cams and a nut tool.
That's a lot of Booty!
How about you :?:
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whitribj
Jul 24, 2006, 9:28 PM
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Well I was at the local watering hole when this blonde slid up a stool. After a smile and a wink.....
...oh wait looks like I stumbled into the wrong forum again!
Which way to penthouse, amputee ambitions forum?
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wjca
Jul 24, 2006, 9:30 PM
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Nothing like some new booty to keep you going. Gotta love that strange.
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hosh
Jul 24, 2006, 9:40 PM
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2 nice lockers. That's pretty good for Juneau. No one climbs trad in this town, and there are only a few places that even have trad lines.
hosh.
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double
Jul 24, 2006, 10:14 PM
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No booty this weekend, but I did drop 2 nuts while I was fiddling to get one in. Only noticed when I heard it hit my belayers head. That my friends, is even more fun than finding the booty.
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krusher4
Jul 24, 2006, 10:19 PM
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I have been getting gear and bail biners off of half the routes I've climbed this year. I just re-use it.
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c_kryll
Jul 24, 2006, 11:35 PM
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In the past 2 weeks:
1 cam, 1 nut, 2 carabiners
Chris
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microbarn
Jul 25, 2006, 12:35 AM
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still working on getting the number of routes up, but so far...I am finding all of the booty on the ground rather then in the routes.
one doval and one nut
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climbingtrash
Jul 25, 2006, 12:45 AM
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Last fall I scored a BRAND NEW #3 friend in Zion that must have been placed and left by some poor newbie. The thing was tipped out but with a little coaxing she was mine. Lesson for the noob? Never give up on a cam in sandstone and always have a nut tool. :lol:
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sportyclimber
Jul 25, 2006, 12:52 AM
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Ah, booty
between my partners and I:
- two quickdraws (with biners)
- a couple bail biners
- a big BD spectra sling
- one biner that was on top of a spire out of reach in a crack, however, i fished it out using my nut tool by dangling it down on its cord
- a BD belay device in a crack half way down the route!?! :shock:
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eviljay
Jul 25, 2006, 1:07 AM
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In the last 10 years:
BD C4 #2camalot
8-9 carabiners
Full set of RPs
chalk bag
#1 Friend
10-12 nuts
red tri-cam
SMC Himalayan ice axe
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flash5twelve
Jul 25, 2006, 1:41 AM
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In the past two weeks I picked up a #7 DMM Walnut and a pink Tricam.
Best ever was a 0.5 Camalot, three biners, and a shoulder length sling resting on a sloping ledge.
Other than that, numerous stoppers and a blue Tricam.
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j_ung
Jul 25, 2006, 1:53 AM
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I just got back from climbing with dbrayack and clausti. Danno plucked a nut, two biners and a 24" runner from Burning Calves at Beaty Mtn. There's another nut still there, but I don't think it's coming out anytime soon. Maybe early in the AM when the rock's still cold.
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coldclimb
Jul 25, 2006, 3:33 AM
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In reply to: 2 nice lockers. That's pretty good for Juneau. No one climbs trad in this town, and there are only a few places that even have trad lines. hosh.
And the chances are pretty good whoever left those biners is someone you know and probably have climbed with. :lol:
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jacobg
Jul 25, 2006, 3:46 AM
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over two years, ive scored several beiners, a few nuts, a new spectra sling, bunch of old webbing and slings, and other odds and ends
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sick_climba
Jul 25, 2006, 3:58 AM
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well there was this girl I work with..... it was great!!!!
We went down to the gear shop and got 4 nuts, 2 12 inch runners, and 2 doubble length. Since january.... 8 hexes 18 stopper, 40 feet of 1 inch webbing 3 locking beiners, 15 beiners, 1 indigo pack, v.10 shoes and about 9 runners in all OH OH OH and a nut tool.... ohhh yea :D
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btrainor
Jul 25, 2006, 4:06 AM
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And what do you do with all that junk? Except for the occasional cam, the rest is not very valuable. I have more nuts than I need already, cams too for that matter. My buddy rarely even leads but he is fascinated by being able to dislodge a crappy tortured nut from a crack to add to his outdated gear stash back at home.
T
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vegastradguy
Jul 25, 2006, 4:06 AM
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lessee...over 4 1/2 years...
prolly a dozen or so carabiners
3/4 set of stoppers
three hexes
about 70' of webbing from various rap stations
i've rescued two cams, but both were returned to their owners.
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salamanizer
Jul 25, 2006, 5:07 AM
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In reply to: well there was this girl I work with..... it was great!!!! We went down to the gear shop and got 4 nuts, 2 12 inch runners, and 2 doubble length. Since january.... 8 hexes 18 stopper, 40 feet of 1 inch webbing 3 locking beiners, 15 beiners, 1 indigo pack, v.10 shoes and about 9 runners in all OH OH OH and a nut tool.... ohhh yea :D
WOW :shock:
You can really smell the BULLSHIT a mile away on this one.
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sick_climba
Jul 25, 2006, 5:13 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: well there was this girl I work with..... it was great!!!! We went down to the gear shop and got 4 nuts, 2 12 inch runners, and 2 doubble length. Since january.... 8 hexes 18 stopper, 40 feet of 1 inch webbing 3 locking beiners, 15 beiners, 1 indigo pack, v.10 shoes and about 9 runners in all OH OH OH and a nut tool.... ohhh yea :D :shock: You can really smell the s--- a mile away on this one.
I just started trad and I got the stoppers a set of thirteen from my teacher. and 3 hexes from him as well bides thats in the past 7 months
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j_ung
Jul 27, 2006, 7:19 PM
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One sunny day I and a partner hiked in to climb a couple Circus Wall routes at Moore's. Thinking we'd start on Zoo View, we scampered up a talus slope to the bottom of a ramp to find a brand spankin' new rope hanging from the Crow's Nest Ledge, where several popular routes begin. It's also the main way down other than a long-ish walk off.
The rope had a note taped to it written on the back of a business card. I don't remember the exact text of the note, but it went something like this: "Rope stuck on rappel. Would appreciate a call. (XXX-XXX-XXXX)" It was signed, "James."
We climbed the entrance pitch to the ledge and saw the problem. Eschewing the standard thread-through rap anchor for reasons unknown, James had instead opted for a large dead tree behind it. The tree held, no problem -- it was quite big -- but the climbers were unable to handle the friction generated by the thick 11mm rope. Perhaps it was dark and they felt unsafe ascending the rope. Perhaps it was raining. Who knows? I coiled the rope, pocketed the note and we continued with our day.
Normally, when I find gear on a climb and there's nobody around to claim it, that shit's mine. It's the Law of Booty and I obey it. But this was big -- a whole rope! I would have felt guilty if I hadn't at least tried to call James. So later that night after getting home, I grabbed the note and dialed. I waited through several rings and there was no answer. No voice mail, either. Huh, I thought. The next day, I tried again with the same result. I let it ring, 20, 30, 50 times, with no luck. Every day for over two weeks I called that number faithfully. I called at different times of day, often multiple times a day. Still no answer.
Finally, out of curiosity, I called the number on the front of the card. A man at the other end picked up almost immediately...
Him: "Hello?"
Me: "Hi, may name is Jay. This is going to seem kind of weird, but I found something at Moore's Wall in Hanging Rock State Park belonging to a guy named James. Is there a James there?"
Him: "Who?"
Me: "James. I have something of his. If he can tell me what it is, I'll send it off to him."
Him: "James? Oh, yeah, yeah! I know James!"
CLICK
Me: "Hello?"
No answer. He hung up! Or... we got disconnected. I called the number again and got voice mail.
Me: "Listen, I've been trying to reach James at the number he left for over two weeks. If he wants his property back he can reach me through Inner Peaks, the climbing gym in Charlotte. My name is Jay."
I started using the rope about a week later and never looked back. James never tried to contact me. I still fix it to take photos and occasionally toprope with it. Nobody can say I didn't try.
But here's the deal: James, if you're out there and you can PM the name of the company on the front of that business card, I'll give you back your rope... a little worse for wear. :lol:
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mtn_geek
Jul 27, 2006, 7:35 PM
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So far no booty scored, all that I've found hasn't been worth retrieving (messed up cams, worn slings...). However, I left a practically new #8 metolius curve nut on Stately Pleasure Dome in the meadows yesterday. It's off route to the right at the top of Great White Book. Feel free to send it back to me if you find it :wink:
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svilnit
Jul 27, 2006, 8:01 PM
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In reply to: And what do you do with all that junk? Except for the occasional cam, the rest is not very valuable. I have more nuts than I need already, cams too for that matter. My buddy rarely even leads but he is fascinated by being able to dislodge a crappy tortured nut from a crack to add to his outdated gear stash back at home. T
Feel free to donate to the rack deficient! :D
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bryceclarke
Jul 27, 2006, 8:27 PM
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Excuse the small tangent, but how much do 'yall trust the synthetic booty you collect (e.g.. slings, webbing, dogbones, etc...).
I've collected a few draws and each time I've replaced the dogbones with new ones. I figure you never know how long they have been baking in the sun, plus a $17 BD draw is totally worth the $3.50 I spent on buying a petzl express bone.
What are everyone's thoughts?
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