flashclimber Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 My friend and I were up at Index today going for the Redpoint on Climax Control. For those who are unfamiliar with Index this is just right of the Cave (Heart of the Counrty area) and close to the the route called "The 5th Force." I went up to the crux and took a 10-12 foot fall. I asked to be lowered to make a 2nd attempt on the route. When I pulled the rope I noticed the 7th bolt was clean. There was no quickdraw left on it. My buddy asked me if I had cleaned that bolt when I was lowered. I didn't. I had just lowered and didn't touch anything. We thot maybe the draw had been knocked to the side and our visual was a little blurred. So Doug went up for his attempt. When he got to the 7th bolt it was missing the quickdraw. All the other 8 bolts had draws, only the 7th bolt was missing the draw. He placed a new draw on the bolt and finished the route. When he got down we looked around for the draw. Nothing to be found. Whats odd is that when I pulled the rope nothing came down with the rope. I definetly would have heard it clanking off the side of the wall if it fell. And I'm positive I would have seen it. We checked and counted the draws again. We went up with 11 draws and ended up with 10. And for those wondering it was a wiregate biner that clipped the bolt and a large DMM biner for the lower. I've heard of weird things happening before around that cave but a diappearing quickdraw? Quote
RuMR Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 it was poop and dwanus hiding in the bushes...they hatessss those nasty little quickdrawessss.... Quote
archenemy Posted August 19, 2005 Posted August 19, 2005 What do you mean you've heard of "other weird things" happening around that cave? Like what? Quote
RuMR Posted August 20, 2005 Posted August 20, 2005 oh...poop and dwanus make a lot of "noise" back in their love grotto...totally weird like...don't wanna know Quote
flashclimber Posted August 24, 2005 Author Posted August 24, 2005 I still haven't found my quickdraw! Maybe I should check the lost and found at the UW engineering program. Quote
mec Posted August 24, 2005 Posted August 24, 2005 someone saw the free booty, grabbed it and ran. good luck on gettin it back. Quote
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