LOST: my patience

Steve Levin wrote: At the bottom of the forum list on MP homepage is a "Hide For Sale" function that will turn off For Sale posts.

I'm well aware of that and frequently use it, but the three seconds it takes to hit it really cramps my style and angers me as I see - however so fleetingly - those mildewed shoes and booty cams being hawked. Maybe you're right though, one passive aggressive rant at a time. Carry on with your FWP, mountainproject!

my favorite is the LOST ROPE.

how in the fuck, exactly, can you leave an entire rope behind and not realize it?

Man, I feel like a real bitch when I leave gear behind because it means I or my partner fucked up. I realize at that point it is time to pay for my mistake. I also realize what my life is worth, and have left some gear behind either because of an injury, or to prevent one. Either way, I would feel like an even bigger bitch if I asked for it back. Man, if you want you shit, get it back, girl pants!

Thanks, Locker. That means a lot coming from you! BTW, I'd share my lost n found weed w. ya!

This thread should be renamed "the Thread of Dooshbaggery & Lifeless Climbers"......lololol. Seriously.

I'm now in both categories for reading, and posting, in it.

Shit

Locker wrote:I am 100% on board with this thread! It's like, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! DON'T LEAVE YOUR GEAR BEHIND! BEFORE YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE, CHECK TO SEE IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE SOMETHING BEHIND" DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously... WHAT THE FUCK?

IS THAT YOU, FAROUK???????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shane Neal wrote:This thread should be renamed "the Thread of Dooshbaggery & Lifeless Climbers"......lololol. Seriously. I'm now in both categories for reading, and posting, in it. Shit

Welcome to the club...

So a admin is crying about people being nice?

Found a booty cam in Red Rock today. if you can identify by make, size and what route it was on I will sell it back to you for half the retail price and a six pack a beer.

ps. looks like it had been stuck for several years; but I got it out and because I such a nice guy and want to get it back the rightful owner who accidentally left it behind (or rather seriously overcammed it at the crux)

oh also found a bail nut and carabiner on the same route; same rules also apply to the nut & carabiner

Cheers!

NorCalNomad wrote:So a admin is crying about people being nice?

the admin isn't crying not about the people returning gear.

he's crying about the people who don't have the wherewithal to keep tabs on their own lifesaving equipment, and the implied nonchalance they show towards what for most of us is expensive shit that we obsess over.

FOUND: Ryan's Patience. It was stuck up a crack somewheres. PM me and describe it, and we'll arrange a way to get it back to you. I take all major credit cards except Discover.

Cheers

Jon Zucco wrote:FOUND: Ryan's Patience. It was stuck up a crack somewheres. PM me and describe it, and we'll arrange a way to get it back to you. I take all major credit cards except Discover. Cheers

;-)

I once found a grip of fancy new carabiners, a belay device, and some cord at a popular learning area. I took the stuff home and spent the next few days embroiled in an internal debate about ethics. I felt bad, because I could tell the gear was brand new, and the owner had gone to the trouble of painting nifty bi-color yin-yang symbols using nail polish. I researched the notion of karma, which led me to some interesting books and eventually forced me to question whether I am really an atheist. But, I digress.

I finally reached the conclusion that I am a selfish asshole, like most other people on this planet, and I scratched the nail polish off so that I will never, ever be accused of stealing or doing anything unethical. Now I've got a bunch of sweet BD hoodwires. Every time I use one of these biners, I must suppress the urge to laugh out loud.

It's no surprise that people leave shit at the crags. You can buy an identical replacement using your smart phone, as you drive home from said crag, and it will be delivered in 2 days via UPS using Amazon Prime. Life in the 21st century is awesome.

Jason Kim wrote: Now I've got a bunch of sweet BD hoodwires. Every time I use one of these biners, I must suppress the urge to laugh out loud. .

Man, I call that pimpin.

rogerbenton wrote: the admin isn't crying not about the people returning gear. he's crying about the people who don't have the wherewithal to keep tabs on their own lifesaving equipment, and the implied nonchalance they show towards what for most of us is expensive shit that we obsess over.

Cause people never have anything else on their mind that'd cause them to forget something... This coming from someone who will sacrifice eating properly to get some gear, but have forgotten climbing things.

I'm usually so baked when i leave a crag that forget things all the time

Locker wrote:I am 100% on board with this thread! It's like, "WHAT THE F*^# IS THE MATTER WITH YOU FUCKING IDIOTS! DON'T LEAVE YOUR GEAR BEHIND! BEFORE YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE, CHECK TO SEE IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE SOMETHING BEHIND" DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously... WHAT THE F*&@#?

Wait until you are my age. Between all the dead brain cells and the poor eyesight its no wonder I have any gear left. At some point I'll have to switch to sport because I misplaced everything else.

Locker wrote:"Wait until you are my age". I'm 58. How old are you? (I come from the "Let's get REAL FUCKED up" era. I already KNOW about that brain cell thing. LOL!)

That era ended??? Shit why didn't anyone tell me.

Seriously though. My rack grew by 10 cams over the 3 years I lived in Vegas from bootying in Red Rock. Leave your gear and it goes on my or my friends rack.

grog m wrote:I'm usually so baked when i leave a crag that forget things all the time

+1!

I think it's noobs from the gym or folks with a lack of education in outdoor rec...

growing up hiking, backpacking, and climbing and being involved in an outdoor summer camp and NOLS, you couldn't get drilled enough about LNT. I remember being forced to eat tiny dirty scraps of food we dropped in the dirt on NOLS cause that was a trace. Leaving gear around the crags is just plain lazyness and ignorance. We always do sweeps once everyone has packed up and moved out of the area. 1 person goes back and does a LNT sweep. It's saved me hundereds... except for that one time I lost a V10 somewhere in the woods in N. VT.