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Free Trango Cam mildly stuck in the roof on Arachnid. Not sure what size they assigned to it, but it is about equivalent to a BD #4 Camelot. Purplish in color. Had it for about 9 years and never liked it, so didn't bother much trying to extract it. Good condition and it never was subjected to a lead fall.
Give it a good home.

You didn't like it so you left it?
Isn't that kind of like leaving a Nalgene or crazy creek in the woods 'cause you didn't really like them either?

Nope, not at all...unless the Nalgene was stuck(keyword stuck) in the crack too.
The cam is left in a place (out of view to detract from a wilderness setting) that will surely see traffic of other climbers soon. I bet at least one of them will be tickled pink to find a cam in good condition that will only take a little bit of effort to claim as booty. Not too many people would be very excited to find a 10 dollar bacteria rich nalgene abandoned in the woods.

I guess I was thrown by "mildly stuck". Never heard that before.
I cleaned a "stuck" cam off of Five Finger a couple of weeks ago. It was one of two, the second one had walked so far back only the sling shows. Both were at the routes crux.
Not directed at you Gobstopper, and it's cool you sent out this booty alert, but I think stuck cams are an eye-sore, and they take away the fun/excitement of placing your own gear. I'd hate to see the Red become like other areas (Red Rocks comes to mind) where there are cams stuck on all kinds of routes.
Maybe new trad climbers (again not specific to you Gob) should learn to place gear properly and maybe only leave a key directional or two if others in your party are going to top-rope the route. Lessen the chance of your gear walking to the point of no return.

"Not too many people would be very excited to find a 10 dollar bacteria rich nalgene abandoned in the woods."
Probably not, but it's still abandoned.

I say "mildly stuck", because there is actually plenty of room to get your hands/arms up into the crack to work at it. I honestly was a little "gassed" in the forearms and couldn't get myself in a better working position on rappel without any more big cams with me. I think the older larger sized Trangos have a bad tendency to walk, especially on traverses even with long runners.
Anyway, I think a "fresh" or better climber will have no problem getting it out on lead.
Agreed, anything not natural in a climb takes away from it. I have clipped stuck gear before, just because it is in the only place to place gear, and you never know how safe that is. Still, it is not such an eyesore as the mess of webbing around the trees on Tower Rock.

Tell you what, if no one says they have retrieved it, I will personally get it down in 2 weeks.

I will get it cant pass up booty




ps. i will take a poop in the woods and leave my toliet paper, go pick that up

I don't mind you getting your hands on my booty, but I really don't want anything that came out of your booty.

Theres always a yellow metoliuos stuck in Five finger. I worked on one for half an hour and gave up for lack of a hammer. The next time I went climbing Sean had it on his harness. bent all to hell. I knew exactly where he got it.

Jeff wrote:Maybe new trad climbers (again not specific to you Gob) should learn to place gear properly and maybe only leave a key directional or two if others in your party are going to top-rope the route. Lessen the chance of your gear walking to the point of no return.

blasphemy!
there's nothing like walking up to an easy crack, looking up and seeing shiny new metal waiting to be harvested. my only complaint is that you guys need to quit leaving those shitty trangos.

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