season of givings

[Crack]

piggybacking on the previous "best booty score" post, what are some things you've had to sacrifice to the gear kharma gods?

 

1) i involuntarily hooked up someone with a pair of g-10's at wa pass a few years ago (fell off of my harness while postholing)

 

2) had a little hissy fit and left a new rope at beacon (that one bugged me for awhile)

 

3) a fat sack before reentering thailand a while back...commie toke is crazy -i was glad to get rid of that shit

 

none of these are proud moments, but judging from all the booty we've all scored -i know i ain't alone

[tread_tramp]

I sacrificed #1 and #3 forged friends, a #11 BD stopper and a rope to the mountain gods when I was lifted off Chimney Rock a couple summers back. Was just glad to get out of there alive. But my partner retrieved the stopper and one of the friends when he climbed the route this summer.

[kurthicks]

a couple years ago my goretex jacket and new windstopper hat fell off my pack while descending cross-country after climbing the Prouty Glacier on South Sister. sadly, it's probably still out there.

[EWolfe]

I have lost tricams so many times, I don't care to think about it.

[plexus]

Five stoppers that slipped out of my hand in Yosemite three pitches up.

 

Several more stoppers at various skittish rappel stations.

 

Couple of camera lenses and a goo packet. That last one really bugged me!! Damn these man hands!!!

[Dru]

I walked away from a bank machine once leaving the $100 i just withdrew sticking out of the slot

 

didn't notice it until i went to buy beer and the wallet was empty WTF??

Edited December 27, 2004 by Dru

[ScottP]

I walked away from a bank machine once leaving the $100 i just withdrew sticking out of the slot

 

didn't notice it until i went to buy beer and the wallet was empty WTF??

[griz]

For climbing... lotsa stoppers cuz sometimes they just aren't worth the effort and a few 2ft pickets here and there on bails.

 

Lost a nice Leatherman knife in the Winds one year but oddly found a nice Gerber knife the Winds the next year.

 

Rafting...Got caught in a hole for a long minute on the Middle Fork of the Salmon and my loosely clipped daypack went in. It got shaken so violently it unzipped and all the contents emptied into the river. Gore tex jacket, good rain pants, sunglasses, maps, toilet paper, fleece jacket...went swimming to recover the fleece and a few other things in an eddy. Lost all the goretex though and watched the TP float down stream helplessly. Good lesson though on not getting too comfortable with powerful things that don't care about you, i guess.

[griz]

Anyone here want to fess up to owning the Mountain Hardware tent I watched shoot 50ft up into the air,tumble down the Muir Snowfield for a 1/2 mile and then take the big launch of a cliff into the Nisqually glacier back on a very windy day in May '01?

 

poor bastard...

[Lars]

I walked away from a bank machine once leaving the $100 i just withdrew sticking out of the slot

 

yeah, but thats only about eighty bucks U.S. so its not as bad as it sounds

[Dru]

it was $65 at the time.

[chirp]

Left 8 cams in the Organasm roof in Zion. We had a bad moment and decided it was safer to just bail and leave the gear.

Went back a week later and they were STILL THERE !

 

You might say I bootied myself.

[ChocChick]

Had an epic (one of many) with the ex-boyfriend on Mt. Stuart. We got caught in a lightning storm and the next morning just bailed and rapped down the winter ice route. There were no rap stations that we could find, so half our climbing rack was left behind as rap anchors. Sucked big time and had to rap on some pretty questionable anchors.

 

We also got benighted on Monkey Face and left carabiners on the whole entire bolt ladder.

 

Once I lost my entire backpack full of climbing gear when someone broke into my car at Smith Rock. That sucked.

 

The good thing - the epics discontinued when the ex and I broke up.

[Matt]

I had a backpack stolen off a train in India going from Mumbai to Rajastan. Contents included: favorite felt hat, leather bound journal, nikon 35-80mm lens, walkman with 12 of my favorite tapes, lonely planet guide book to India, sunglasses, sunblock, and other things I cannot remember. The worst part was when the people on the train found out that my pack was stolen they decided it would be a good topic of conversation for the remaining 16 hours on the train. Not the best thing to lose the first week of my two month trip to the subcontinent.

[texplorer]

Dropped:

3 offset nuts, #3 camalot(ouch)

 

Got Stuck:

#.75 camalot

 

Mystery Unclip:

camhook, #.5 camalot

 

I had a damn good record until Mescalito this year when I dropped the #3 BD and 3 offset nuts AND got the .75 stuck

[marylou]

I walked away from a bank machine once leaving the $100 i just withdrew sticking out of the slot

 

didn't notice it until i went to buy beer and the wallet was empty WTF??

 

I did that too. Left the money in the tray and walked off.

 

About fifteen minutes later I realized what I had done and went back to the bank machine. No cash. I then called my bank and they told me that people do that all the time, and that they usually don't know whose money they have. What apparently happens is after a few minutes the money gets sucked back into the bank machine just like your bank card does if you leave it. The bank told me that if any money got sucked back into the machine, they would refund me my lost $40, and it did, and I did.

 

I'm still with B of A after all these years. Good customer service to let you have your money after you left it in the tray if you ask me.

[Stephen_Ramsey]

Anyone here want to fess up to owning the Mountain Hardware tent I watched shoot 50ft up into the air,tumble down the Muir Snowfield for a 1/2 mile and then take the big launch of a cliff into the Nisqually glacier back on a very windy day in May '01?

 

poor bastard...

I saw that tent flying, also. When the owners of the tent vacated their campsite to go hunt for the tent, our party got their nice windbreak at Camp Muir.

[Plinko]

Anyone here want to fess up to owning the Mountain Hardware tent I watched shoot 50ft up into the air,tumble down the Muir Snowfield for a 1/2 mile and then take the big launch of a cliff into the Nisqually glacier back on a very windy day in May '01?

 

poor bastard...

 

I think that happens a lot more often then people will admit...I saw the same thing on the other side, while camped near Schurman, tents rolling down the mountain like tumbleweeds...but those lucky s.o.b.'s caught it beofore it took a serious dive.