Stuck Cam!!

Hello LCC climbers... we got a #3 camalot stuck on the undercling traverse on Wheels on Fire in the Green A Gulley. Its buried pretty deep and we ran out of time trying to retrieve it. If anyone can get it out and return it (I'm a broke PT grad student) I would gladly buy you a 6 pack of your favorite brew. Thanks!!

-Matt

Matthew Berke wrote:Hello LCC climbers... we got a #3 camalot stuck on the undercling traverse on Wheels on Fire in the Green A Gulley. Its buried pretty deep and we ran out of time trying to retrieve it. If anyone can get it out and return it (I'm a broke PT grad student) I would gladly buy you a 6 pack of your favorite brew. Thanks!! -Matt

I was a broke PT student once and feel your pain. If you can't get yours back, I'll donate an old cam or two to ease your pain. They're old but they'll work.

PM me if you need it. But I don't always check the junk box where they come so try a couple of times if I don't respond quickly.

Clay

I pulled a stuck #3 off the Elephants Perch a few years back. It was brand new. Want to know the trick?

Instead of pulling on the trigger to collapse the lobes, reach up and collapse the lobes with your fingers. You'll get just a smidge more closure out of a cam this way. If you go too far with them it will over cam where each lobe touches the rock in two places, and gets all 4 lobes stuck like this.

Not easy to remove. There comes a point where removal is a LNT exercise rather than a collecting booty experience.
And I think I can speak for us all when I say collecting booty is way funner.
Kevin

Thanks all. Yeah its to the point where each lobe is touching in two spots, not to mention the cam is buried pretty deep. I've heard that granite swells/contracts a bit with temperature, so I may try and go back up once it gets cold and see if I can work it out...if no one has retrieved it by then.

And thanks for the old cam offer! Its actually not mine and my buddy already bought a new one so I don't think we need anything at this point. appreciate the generosity though