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rjavery10
Jul 8, 2004, 3:55 AM
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I got a BD #0 red cam on Tahquitz near the end of The Error. It was just sitting there in a flake not even stuck. It was about 1 pitch from the top.
It looks a little scratched. Right now it hangs from my shifter on my truck.
DO ANY OF YOU USE BOOTY REGULARLY, OR NOT TRUST IT AT ALL???
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coylec
Jul 8, 2004, 4:07 AM
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yes, i use bootied gear.
if you can't find good booty, just take trash -- its good karma that will help you score some real finds.
coylec
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onbelay007
Jul 9, 2004, 3:02 AM
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A few weekends ago I went climbing with a large group of people. I showed up to the climb late and nobody was there. I did find a twenty foot piece of webbing, 6 quickdraws, 1 locking biner, and an ABC cam. I hung around for over an hour and didn't see anybody. I had a hunch it belonged to someone in the group I was to climb with so I took it back to the campsite and asked around to find out whose gear it was. Well it turned out it didn't belong to any of them. I feel kinda bad for the sucker that left it though. But then again, what kind of moron leaves that much gear?
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petsfed
Jul 9, 2004, 5:03 AM
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You just gotta know where to look. Why just yesterday, I (personally) stripped 3 carabiners off of the same 5.7 pitch, while my partner got 2, plus a long dyneema sling. I oughta go out there once a week to clean house!
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addiroids
Jul 9, 2004, 5:10 AM
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I usually get about 100 dollars in retail off of tahquitz a year. Mostly from bolt hangers and chains I steal.
Just kidding. Multiple biners, slings, nuts, and like 1-2 cams a year.
Keep on climbing. Gear booty and real booty will cum soon enough. Especially if you are a trad climber. Not so much if you are a spandex sporting sporto.
TRADitionally yours,
Cali Dirtbag
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tahoe_rock_master
Jul 9, 2004, 5:23 AM
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In the last 2 weeks at Donner Summit I have scored a Trango double wiregate draw, an old locking biner, and #12 and #7 BD nuts. My first booty! :D
Matt
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madmax
Jul 9, 2004, 5:56 PM
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On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
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skinnyjim
Jul 9, 2004, 6:04 PM
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3 Days ago I counted 8 bail biners at Weeping Wall on the Seward Highway.. We snagged one of them... :lol:
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toejam
Jul 10, 2004, 8:39 AM
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A couple weeks ago I found a tcu, chouinard #1 cam, and a double length spectra runner all left on a 5.6. Made me a tad nervous since I was soloing and thinking maybe I was off route. I mean, who bails or leaves gear on a 5.6?
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herm
Jul 11, 2004, 5:19 PM
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in my experience, it is the easy routes that accumulate the most booty......
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grover
Jul 11, 2004, 6:01 PM
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BootY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Ah........the memories !!!!!!!!
I'm currently collecting biners of all genres for a quasi-art-welded-structure.
Anyone out there need to un-load some biners for said art thang?!?
Sorry for stealing this thread!!
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happiegrrrl
Jul 11, 2004, 7:55 PM
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My first score - six brand new, with the tags still on, BD carabiners. One of my clients had purchased them for use at her work (a philanthropical, non-climbing related organization - what they need biners for, I don't know). Apparently, they "were the wrong size" and since she knew I had just started climbing, she took them home and left them for me.
I know it's not "real" booty, but for only being a n00b, it has to be good enough for me. And, technically, I DID find them.....they were just sitting on a kitchen counter with a note attached and a clear indication of their provinence instead of crammed stuck in some crevice giving off "ooooh s---, gotta get outa here. now." vibes..... What can I say? How else would a person who's been climbing only a few months and won't be leading for quite some time, and has to be content with getting outside climbing like once a month cash in? I got Baby Booty, how's that?
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sleepy
Jul 11, 2004, 7:58 PM
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Mountain chick82, Yeah you know that some men go by this and others don't.
I think you bit off more than you could chew!!!! :D
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sleepy
Jul 11, 2004, 8:04 PM
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sleepy
Jul 11, 2004, 8:05 PM
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In reply to: omg...hahaha..funny site. if any guys go by this well... :shock:
Well what? You know that some guys go by this. Besides maybe you bit off more thatn you could chew!!!! :D
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halcyon
Jul 11, 2004, 8:22 PM
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I left some booty last night. Maybe a #4 nut or so placed during the opening moves of sasquatch in Little Cottonwood. I could have cleaned her up if I had just been a bit more patient (and remembered my nut tool), but the climb ahead of me was more important than the nut beside me. Kudos to whoever claims her.
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tcantor333
Jul 11, 2004, 8:39 PM
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Two ovals, and a brand new Trango Cam so far this year. Keep it up kids, I can always use the gear.
Yes, indeed. Sometimes it's like taking candy from a baby up there, especially in the easy/moderate trade routes.
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tcantor333
Jul 11, 2004, 8:49 PM
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In reply to: On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
ROFLMAO. Yeah, that'd be one that the beginning booty puller should run right up and grab. Too Funny.
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tcantor333
Jul 11, 2004, 8:54 PM
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In reply to: On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
ROFLMAO. Yeah, that'd be one that the beginning booty puller should run right up and grab. Too Funny.
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frawg
Jul 11, 2004, 11:10 PM
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In reply to: You bit off more than you could chew the first day you met me
Thank you for the Dropkick Murphy's quote.
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nthusiastj
Jul 12, 2004, 12:01 AM
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In reply to: Not always. My partner found a booty nut the other day on the first pitch of an easy 5.3 at the GUnks. It wasn't even stuck, it came loose as soon as he grabbed it. Manna from the heavens. K.
Aah... Nothing like easy booty.
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coylec
Jul 12, 2004, 4:28 AM
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Another score: an awesome rainjacket ... nearly new.
coylec
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goodwill
Jul 30, 2004, 9:42 AM
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It finally happened! :D I was back at Tahquitz on Wednesday, and on the first pitch of Open Book, I bootied a brand spankin new cam! That's pretty fine for my first booty ever! It's a number 1 Rock Empire cam, so it's nothing fancy, but it's in pristine condition. Seriously, it looks like the crack I pulled it from might have been the first time it was ever placed. The thing that amazed me the most was how easily it came out... most stuck cams that I've seen were really badly stuck. This one was just shoved way up in the crack, so that the trigger was unreachable with fingers, but easily reached with a nut tool. One quick pull on the trigger was all it took! :idea:
On the other hand, the booty gods giveth, and the booty gods taketh away. Later that day, I think I may have lost my sunglasses in the parking area. :roll:
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ottoman
Jul 30, 2004, 1:24 PM
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Congrat's...Keep climbing and going to different area's.....you'll always find something.......good friend found a set of doubles and and a complete rap station(cams and nuts/biners) midroute last year for no apparent reason....and posted finding it for a long time in hopes of giving it back....anyway, good climbing!!!
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taino
Jul 30, 2004, 2:48 PM
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Whenever I climb at Peterskill, I make a round of the top of the walls early-on. There are several expanding flakes that, when heated by the sun, "close up" like a clamshell and trap any gear in it. I've gotten a #9 nut, a #10 nut, and a blue tricam so far this year; the #10 nut needs new shrinkwrap, but all are otherwise in excellent shape.
I nearly had to leave a #10 hex, though - my partner forgot his nut tool, but managed to dislodge it with his apartment keys. He also had to leave two tricams (pink, red) to the folks coming up behind us on Beginner's Delight, but they gave them back at the top. Very generous of them, and totally unexpected. We offered to let them rappel on our doubles, to get down faster, and let them go first - in thanks.
T
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