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Lost cam at Watchtower near Halls Gap on Saturday

Will_P

20-Jan-2012
3:48:01 PM

On 20/01/2012 Catpower wrote:
"Alas, I received a message from the very kind 'someone else' who offered to look for it earlier this week, that had gone! Frankly I think that's a bit crap - so if anyone knows anything at all - appreciate if you let me know as it's a relatively new cam and we all know how much it sucks to lose gear. Cheers."

Have a closer look at "someone else's" rack next time you're out with them. Trust, but verify.


Sabu

20-Jan-2012
3:59:37 PM

Nothing brings out feelings of paranoia, protectiveness, pride and envy quite like dealing with trad gear!


Sonic

20-Jan-2012
6:15:24 PM

Finding ALOT of gear IS rubbish - we climbed something like 19 pitches on the tuesday and found 2 cams, 2 hexes together on a belay, 5 assorted nuts, a few old biners together on a ledge. It didnt seem like a whole lot considering the ground we covered that day but it was fun all the same.

Catpower

20-Jan-2012
6:19:01 PM

On 20/01/2012 Will_P wrote:
>On 20/01/2012 Catpower wrote:
>"Alas, I received a message from the very kind 'someone else' who offered
>to look for it earlier this week, that had gone! Frankly I think that's
>a bit crap - so if anyone knows anything at all - appreciate if you let
>me know as it's a relatively new cam and we all know how much it sucks
>to lose gear. Cheers."
>
>Have a closer look at "someone else's" rack next time you're out with
>them. Trust, but verify.

Tee hee - yes the thought did cross my mind.

simey

20-Jan-2012
11:59:53 PM

On 20/01/2012 nmonteith wrote:
>There can be several hundred people there at Easter. I can easily see how a lot of gear could be left behind.

Even if a lot of gear was left behind, you wouldn't know on which routes to start. And whilst you are climbing a bunch of routes unsuccessfully looking for gear, the routes that do have gear stuck in them are being climbed by someone else who is simply fortunate to stumble upon it before you even know anything about it.

What some dirtbag climber should do is advertise their services where they go and retrieve your stuck gear for half the retail price of the piece (payment only required if the salvage operation is successful).

Come to think of it if anyone has some stuck gear at Arapiles they can call Simey's Stuck Nut & Cam Removalists - just PM me the details.

widewetandslippery

21-Jan-2012
12:42:26 AM

Its the retrevers property now, not yours. Go shopping, you lost

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