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ricardol
Jan 28, 2003, 11:21 PM
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Just wanted to get a feeling for what kind of equipment everyone has lost to the rock.. (and probably someone else got out later!) ..
I fixed my first piece last weekend, left behind a #12 BD stopper at pinnacles..
-- ricardo
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vegastradguy
Jan 28, 2003, 11:32 PM
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We just lost our first piece in Red Rocks on Sunday. a #8 BD Stopper.*sigh* The lead party (of 3 parties of 2) couldnt get it out, neither could the middle party, and then the anchor party (myself and my second) failed as well. 5 people tried, 5 people failed! can you believe that? PTPP would definitely have something to say on that one...
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punk
Jan 28, 2003, 11:38 PM
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Personally I am a Grinch when come to gear I will fight the piece till I get it out however I did leave 3 pieces (nuts and one biner) in different occasion which I replaced and my followers had left 5 pieces (nuts)all together in my climbing experience which they replaced all
But look at this as u win some u lose very little b/c I have about 60 pieces of booty gear
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phugganut
Jan 29, 2003, 12:00 AM
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I don't trust booty gear. I only once used some (2 seemingly new rap-rings found on top of 4-peaks mtn in a ziploc bag) and, although I used both at once, I STILL worried the whole way down.
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totigers
Jan 29, 2003, 12:12 AM
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I asked a family member to pick up the gear while I get the rope and we packed out of JT. When I got home and checked all my gear, I found that I had left 2 #5 Metolious cams in Indian Cove. I was so pissed, since then, I have not taken that person again climbing. At that time, I was scrounging for pennies just to buy the gear I was using. I still haven't replaced them but I also have not needed them as of yet. But I soon will pick up some more.
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grigriese
Jan 29, 2003, 12:12 AM
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you need to get one of those little cleaning hammers - it's like a nut cleaning tool but it has a small hammer on it. My boyfriend and I have scored lots and lots of booty with this little tool. They are not as light as a regular nut cleaning tool but if a nut gets weighted or set a little more than ya want this hammer will most likely clean it. I use it with a regular nut tool usually
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iamthewallress
Jan 29, 2003, 12:13 AM
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2 new ropes tied together.
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stevematthys
Jan 29, 2003, 2:54 AM
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2 ropes? hahahaha
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2 #5 metolius cams??????
2 new ropes?????
I understand the first one since he didn't know, but the ropes, how could you do such a thing?????
Personnaly I'm still at I haven't left anything yet but have picked up a #1 and a #.75 BD cam some other people had left since they couldn't get them out.
Booty gear motivates me to go climb more!!!!
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bandycoot
Jan 29, 2003, 4:11 AM
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my friend fixed a #1 camalot once. She didn't know how to clean and wiggled it to get it out...GOODBYE!!! Luckily it wasn't mine, we were a 3 person team and it was the other guys.
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brutusofwyde
Jan 29, 2003, 7:04 PM
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Brand new 4.5 camalot on the third pitch of YPB.
That being said, I've received 100x that in booty over the years.
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kman
Jan 30, 2003, 1:10 AM
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2 ropes....d'oh sucks to be you.
I have left behind a #8 Metolious nut.
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rockmx
Jan 30, 2003, 1:33 AM
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# 2 Metolius Power cam
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vram1974
Jan 30, 2003, 7:14 PM
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I had to leave two Wild Country Forged Friends in the Split Pillar in Squamish this September. Both had walked in, and were completely overexpanded. I would have fought with them for a bit, but I was somewhat relieved to lose them, actually... Not to start an argument with the hardcore lovers of rigid stem Friends, but I never liked those cams. Their short slings had a nasty tendancy to walk, something I have never had a problem with using Metolius or Black Diamond or DMM. So I replaced them with some Rock Empire cams... testing still pending.
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adirondakclimber
Jan 30, 2003, 7:40 PM
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Havn't lost any on the rock, but i rendered a nut useless trying to get it out, the wire frayed. We also left behind two micro nuts and a biner once somewhere.
But i have picked some really hard ones out that i find stuck, I'm with T-dog, I usually go to the popular places just to find some stuck gear b/c i'm poor.
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davidji
Jan 30, 2003, 7:44 PM
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Interesting about leaving the rigid Friends, Vram. Most of the fixed cams I see are rigid-stem, and most rigid-stem Friends I see climbing are fixed (rather than being carried or used). I assumed it was because they walk more than flexible cams, but maybe, as you said, climbers are glad to be rid of them.
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brianinslc
Jan 30, 2003, 7:59 PM
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A Moss Stardome III in a bad snowstorm...
Brian in SLC
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ebrmusic
Feb 8, 2003, 3:23 PM
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I lost a #1 BD Cam to T-Wall last weekend. It was my first lost piece. Cleaners need not wiggle.
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coclimber26
Feb 8, 2003, 4:09 PM
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Left...#7 and #3 stopper on a rescue.
Found...1.5 and 2" cams and a "8stopper at an emergency rap
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wlderdude
Feb 8, 2003, 5:05 PM
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2 BD Hexes on seperate ocassions. One of them was #4, my favorite piece on my rack.
Okay, so they were my brother's hexes. I had to pay him for the #4. The day I fell on the #5 hex and got it stuck, he droped a big rock on my rope and ruined it.
Is there anywhere I can buy unslung BD hexes for a decent price?
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dig_scott
Mar 3, 2003, 8:19 PM
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ouch on the Moss Stardome III. im sure there isnt a good story that goes along with that one.
lost a 10 BD stopper rapping into a cave. all the weight of the raps were on it and it got stuck.
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stewbabby
Mar 3, 2003, 8:39 PM
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I have only lost one cam at sunset park in TN. And then... I find this picture of tommy getting it out the day after I lost it.
http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos.php?Action=ListPhoto&PhotoID=6290
stewart
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sparky
Mar 4, 2003, 2:31 AM
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Big #4 DMM cam left somewhere in the vacinity of the Bastille in Eldorado, I'm still pissed because I only had the cam for 3 weeks!
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melekzek
Mar 4, 2003, 3:59 AM
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- Wall climb, 7th rope length, finger injury from fallen stones, retreat, stuck rope, cut and continue
- Hard winter ascent, 2 axe belay get stuck after rappel with 2 ropes, cut and continue...
- A whole set of wildcountry stoppers are forgotten when trying to gather a mess of equipment when its getting dark... that still hurts..... how did I do that...
- A whole set of hexentrics.... I thought I lost them for at least 2 years, and after that some irrisponsible guy brought it back.... "sorry, I accidentally get them into my stuff"
- some stoppers stuck over here, and there, but I got some back from some other places anyhow ;-)
that is a lame record I guess
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apollodorus
Mar 4, 2003, 4:11 AM
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I placed a #4 forged Friend behind the Poison Pill block on Scorched Earth, and after one of our bags was hauled, it closed up on it. Or maybe the heating of the outer surface the next day caused the 2-foot wide flake to bend. The crack closed up about 1/2". Anyway, it was solidly fixed.
And to compound things, a whole bag of giant cams fell a short time later. Amazingly, it caught in a tree after 800+ feet of free fall. A #16 plywood cam was broken, but most of the others were completely undamaged except for tweaked trigger wires, etc.
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