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Found gear of some value.
Wilyabrup, 1900hrs, Saturday 01/04/06.
Particulars and route, I’ll be happy to return the recovered items.
Contact: Brett Dennis
MOB: 0409 291 858
G’day Doopa. Ben from AO. Was down there Sunday morning chatting to Owen and he was most dissapointed to find gear he left in a climb on Sat night gone on Sunday morning. If it is his I am sure he will be stoked! If you rapped down and cleaned it can I suggest next time you leave it as climbers tend to leave gear around to come back to.
I know your probably doing the right thing and keeping it safe and posting it here, Good on you.
Thanks mate.
Speak to Owen..
Hi Brett,
Yeah it sounds like that gear is mine. I tried calling your mobs and left a message, so if you could please give me a buzz on 0422 323 281 I’ll be able to ID the gear and climb that I left it on.
Thanks mate, owen.
Hi Owen,
Doops out on the Perth College yr 9 program for 10 days. I think he will be back next tue/weds?.
Cheers
Owen,
Had to use the cams on the South Coast!! Number 2 is now stuck on south face of Peak Head, second pitch of ‘Power of the Old Land”. At least no-ones likely to stumble across the gear down there!!!!
Just joking, all sorted, should be in Perth during next week (after Easter).
Will call you when I’m up in the urban wasteland and arrange to drop off your gear.
Brett
“can I suggest next time you leave it as climbers tend to leave gear around to come back to” ben J
What a ridiculous comment!. Maybe if you are on the beach in thailand it would be accepted to leave “draws” on a climb that you are working (with the knowledge that other would use them…but not steal them..) But as for trad gear generally anything left behind becomes “booty” unless you know otherwise! what a condecending statement!
Good onya Brett.
I personally wouldn’t deliberately leave gear at Willyabrup and I’d be very happy if where I accidentally did, I got it back. Where I will leave gear is places where I know the people I’m with are the only ones who are going to be around that day or the next, ie real, real remote.
shouldn’t you guys be arguing about bolts? this matter has been happily resolved.
kook?? or couc? Major lack of respect mate. If the gear doesn’t look stuck then leave it alone. keep searching the crags and you might be able to build a rack that one day will work against you.
Haven’t we had this arguement before involving a PAD at Millers or something like that?
Don’t be a lazy bastard and take your gear home with you! Otherwise i am with KOOK, Its free game
Hey Elvis you sound like a busted ass excuse for a boulders wet dream,Why dont you stick to the ep sway mate and stay away from crag booty.
Lebo,
Can i use that line in a new song……or have you just left it behind on this site to come back and collect later??
Benno – thanks for pointing out the obvious. From the circumstances (2 decent cams left with quickdraws attached, in a hard climb, without a hint of overcamming, at 7:30pm on a saturday night) it was clear that the cams were not abandoned, and that whoever left them was planning on coming back for them the following day. Coming across cams in these circumstances presents one with a choice – do I steal them or do I not steal them? Fortunately real climbers are an honest bunch and it usually isn’t an issue.
Perhaps Brett should have given it a bit more thought before he rapped down and removed the cams, but ultimately he made the right decision, for which I’m very grateful. Once again Brett – I appreciate your honesty.
Kook and Elvis, the gutless anonymous intermeddlers, your opinion’s are a waste of space.
And 7:30pm on a saturday night at a margaret river sea cliff comfortably falls within Toc’s definition of ‘real remote’.
G’day Owen,
Long time no see. I see you’ve been busy, good on ya. I am Elvis and I don’t believe my comments are a waste of space. As was argued in a previous post, i don’t believe people, even “real” climbers, can seriously expect to leave gear lying around and expect it to remain there.
I have never, nor would I, take any gear lying about, and if i do i’ll do as Brett did and post it here and hand over to the owner.
Leaving gear behind is risky, thats my point. I think you were lucky that someone with integrity such as Brett found your cam, there are many more out there that would keep it. I have lost gear at Churchies….no post no nothing…gone.
I believe that in the same previous discussion some peanut stated that real climbers who have travelled the world would know it is common practice to leave gear behind to come back to. Real climbers are climbers full stop. Quarry grovellers to 25+ grade climbers are stil climbers and just because one has climbed overseas doesn’t make one any better than the rest of us.
Perth is notorous for doing things differently so if leaving gear behind elsewhere is the norm it makes sense that taking it with you in Perth would be the norm.
Good luck with your climbing Owen
gday kris! what are you up to these days? haha, i had a feeling i’d be paying out on someone i knew, but i guess that by making anonymous inflammatory remarks you would have been expecting it??
anyway, in the future when i’m climbing in perth i’ll try follow you advice and invert any practice i have observed overseas 🙂
but good to know that you wouldn’t practice what you preach and would leave the gear in place.
have a good one mate!
Yes indeed Owen I was counting on it! This site can get too serious and dare i say boring so i thought i’d go fishing….it worked. I am officially getting fat as a public servant but still trying to climb as much as possible!
Keep up the good work with your climbing and new routes!!
