What have you dropped?

[Buckaroo]

The mud falcon is not endangered.

 

that's illegal in the valley but people still drop the brown bags

[Buckaroo]

 

Builderbear is moving into position to drop post-consumer salmon on your head

 

W T F !!!!

[Buckaroo]

Climbed the Salathe, got to lead the hollow flake. Only thing I dropped was a small 3/4" gear strap, the kind with a plastic buckle.

 

Dropped a #5 camalot off Green Dragon one time, fell out of the top of the haul bag. Found it and it's still usable.

 

Didn't really drop it but lost a 2 person 4 season tent on Curtis ridge on Rainier. Had it anchored to rocks and had taken off the fly and nothing was inside. Big gust of wind and heard a noise like the stakes pulling from under the rocks holding them. Looked back and it was already 20 ft up in the air and spinning like a demon. It departed over and down the Curtis glacier at warp speed. Looked for it the rest of the day but never found.

 

On a bivy 8th pitch on Direct NE Buttress of Slesse. All out of water but a small patch of snow. Was wiping out the stove pot and it flipped out of my hands. Was sitting on a ledge with my legs dangling down the cliff. The pot flipped right down between my legs and I caught it with my feet.

 

At the finish of the Kain Route on Bugaboo Spire. There's a 35 deg slab/ramp that drops off on the West side. Crossing this slab dropped the #3 Camalot. It bounced and slid down right to the edge of the cliff and caught on a rock right by the edge. Was able to climb down and get it.

[Buckaroo]

My partner took a messy dump from the hanging belay after leading the first pitch of Sea of Vapors.

 

Sea of Vapors can be really thin some years. If it didn't go you could sling that sh*t up above on the thin spots and wait for it to freeze then climb the frozen sh*t. You could even prep by eating lots of high fiber the day before that way it would be structurally strong frozen sh*t.

 

You could even design and construct a special tool, like a sh*t slinger. Yeah that's it the new Black Diamond Teflon Coated Titanium Sh*t Slinger.

 

Would climbing frozen sh*t slings be considered aid? You could even modify the rating system. WI-7 A0-Sh*t.

[Pete_H]

Assuming you could projectile shit upwards.

[Buckaroo]

Assuming you could projectile shit upwards.

 

I'm imagining something like those slings they use to throw tennis balls for dogs. Except maybe with a bigger holding cup.

[Pete_H]

Extra points for creativity.

[ScottP]

While putting on my jacket near the top of On Line at Static Point, a golf ball fell out of the pocket and began bouncing down the slab. The third bounce was somewhere in the vicinity of the first pitch and the thing launched out over the tops of the trees at the base. It seemed to fly forever, a white speck against a sea of green, before dropping into the forest way below the base of the crag.

Why there was a golf ball in the pocket of that jacket remains a mystery to this day.

[Bug]

In the Winds, a friend of mine came down with a powerful bad stomach problem. He had to drop trow before dropping his pack and then just pointed sideways off the trail. He blew freezable materials at least ten feet.

Maybe someone could go to the Winds, find the micro-organism that affected my friend, and market that.

[G-spotter]

Assuming you could projectile shit upwards.

 

I'm imagining something like those slings they use to throw tennis balls for dogs. Except maybe with a bigger holding cup.

 

Two hurls one cup?

[lancegranite]

 

Exploring in Red Rocks, I found a single womens approach shoe in the bushes below the upper pitches of Black Orpheus.

My friend and I silently comprehended the obvious epic that ensued for the fateful party.

 

We also found cams, nuts, carabiners and various dropped items in the same area. It was like an easter egg hunt.

Our new route done that day, The Bandit, paid tribute to the plethora of dropped booty we scooped.

If you do it, you might have a similar experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[denalidave]

Exploring in Red Rocks, I found a single womens approach shoe in the bushes below the upper pitches of Black Orpheus.

My friend and I silently comprehended the obvious epic that ensued for the fateful party.

Seems I remember reading a TR from gal of an epic one shoe descent a while back, not sure if it was on Black Orpheus though.

[olyclimber]

how did you know she was single?

[G-spotter]

If she hadn't been single her boyfriend would have been the one making the one-shoe descent after she took one of his

[TarHeelEMT]

Thankfully I've never dropped anything worse than a belay device or a biner full of tricams.

[YocumRidge]

 

http://www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/Life-threateningflyingO2bottlesdownEverestNorthwallMay172004.shtml

[CollinWoods]

Lost a bivy sack on top of stuart in a thunderstorm...

[archenemy]

I dropped my almost-new yellow linkcam off the top pitch of "Rock On" in Squamish last week. It had been given to me as a special birthday present last year, so I was sad about having been so careless with it(and dreading telling my S/O of its fate).

 

On the rap down from the climb, I spotted it near the 2nd rap station, delicately dangling from a tree banch like a Christmas ornament. A happy ending.

That's because God love you.

 

I don't think I have ever recovered any gear I have dropped.

[tvashtarkatena]

I love you, too, Sherri!

[marc_leclerc]

I've never dropped anything important.. just a few partners... I dropped an ice screw once.. it was emberassing. I hada guy drop a leashless tool on me from the top of the first pitch of Icy B.C while I was belaying

[rob]

I don't drop gear, just crazy bitches

[archenemy]

I had a fuckwad drop a rop on my neck while aiding at Index. I already ranted about it years ago in a thread here, but I would still sucker punch the asshole if I ever found out who it was. Or maybe I would hire a samaurai.

[tvashtarkatena]

Can I get my rop back, please?

[marc_leclerc]

Can I get my rop back, please?