Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

Tit for tat - is it 19-Jan-2010 At 11:47:01 AM miss crag

Message

Ahh yes, the story behind it...

My climbing partner and I decided to get some mileage (about 500m as quickly as possible) as practice for an upcoming alpine trip and, as I'd not abseiled from anything but fixed anchors before, I was looking forward to setting up and trusting some tape sling.

We topped out a couple of times on different routes, on the third route we simuled I came up and discovered the sling/biner had gone. We just replaced it with another one and figured if it kept going missing the lizards were getting up to speed on booty!

I left a note at camp, a friendly one at that without assumption on why it may have gone 'missing', then had our gear returned to us the next day with accusations of abandoning the gear. Now I'm happy to accept this person may have felt guilty or annoyed that gear had been left but it was the manner in which the accusations were made and no attempt on their behalf to understand or listen to why the tat was there. Nevermind, it wasn't worth the energy (and I didn't have much anyway)!

While I'm on this soap box, next time a group of people rock up at the Pines at 2am in the morning with high beams on, slamming car doors and yelling continuously "it's not flat anywhere" about three metres away from our tents I'll be jumping out of my tent and chasing them with said tat/biner in hand swinging like a nun-chuck tee hee!

Epic reply over now :) hope this gave some of you some entertainment!