The ongoing weekend idiot report

[Cromper]

I had left a small rope with a carabiner up there where they were climbing.

What?

[milspecmark]

It is for my service dog

[Cromper]

It is for my service dog

oh gotcha, I thought you meant you had left it on the anchors or something along those lines.

[milspecmark]

Lol, like a gumby line jug?

[Toy]

Abandoned gear

[milspecmark]

I left it there for 20 min.

[tutugirl]

They must not know the outcomes of "Karma equipment" ...

[Redpoint]

A guy starts up 27 years of climbing and can't clip the first bolt so he jumps down. I offer a stickclip and he refuses, so I at least pointed out the clipping jug to him. He makes it to the second bolt and takes(an hour earlier I watched a 100 year old lady (well she at least moved as fast as a 100 year old) get to at least the fifth before she took). I'm talking to my friend and he points and says "what the hell". A spectator had run over to the girl belaying on 27 years of climbing and I hear him explain to her to never take her hand off the brake side of the rope. She says that her belay device is stuck and won't feed out any slack so that the leader can continue climbing. The guy helping is getting more paranoid by the second and grabs the brake end of the rope next to her as a backup while she tries to get her belay device unstuck. He then teaches her how to belay so that her guide and brake hand is on the rope at all times. She finally sort of gets the hang of it (I say sort of because there was plenty of short roping going on due to her short bursts of 1 inch of rope at a time) and the guy helping leaves. So what kind of belay device was it that was so hard for her to feed slack... an atc. I had to go, but I will always wonder: which one of them knew how to clean.

[Syphur]

I had a grigri lock up on me once. So tight I was afraid the handle was going to snap off when I tried to open it. Weighed 210 at the time but it was a self belay on TR so wasn't even much of a fall.

[KD]

Sometimes new belayers and spotters cant hear when people are on the ground spewing lots and lots and lots of beta. All the extreanous information and unsolicited beta from mentally retarted bystanders who spew all the time and never shut up, overloads the brain and then devices seem to not work properly. Especially when individuals continue to spew lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of beta all the time and wont shut up with the beta and then nobody can concentrate.