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#25 Re: Stashing Pads
May 22, 2018, 04:20:11 pm
I hear they'd been left there so that when they cycled out at 6am with their Spanish spotter they wouldn't have to take pads with them.

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#26 Re: Stashing Pads
May 23, 2018, 12:55:30 pm
So a friend (really not me) has stashed pads by his project for well over a year..  They are in a cave/fissure under a roof, in a place that only boulderers would visit.  Only visible when you are within a metre or so of them.  They won’t rot as it’s perma dry under there.

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That, for me, is way too long even in those circumstances. I mean, if your project is taking you that long you should probably leave it and go train/climb other things anyway!

They really aren’t my pads, it’s really not my project and I did state that they had been there for too long which I will take up with my friend.  I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

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#27 Re: Stashing Pads
May 23, 2018, 01:25:33 pm

They really aren’t my pads, it’s really not my project and I did state that they had been there for too long which I will take up with my friend.  I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

I didn't realise Shark was highballing the Oak

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#28 Re: Stashing Pads
May 23, 2018, 01:33:57 pm
Touche.

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#29 Re: Stashing Pads
May 23, 2018, 01:38:16 pm

I didn't realise Shark was highballing the Oak

Need some good American style spotting for that!

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#30 Re: Stashing Pads
May 24, 2018, 06:31:35 pm
They really aren’t my pads, it’s really not my project and I did state that they had been there for too long which I will take up with my friend.  I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

That wasn't meant as a criticism, sorry if it came across that way I was just saying in the context of the discussion that if a line were to be drawn that'd be past it in my very humble opinion.

I'd love to know who you're talking about now anyway!!! I'm happy to offer him lots of other unsolicited and potentially useless pieces of advice in exchange  ;D

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#31 Re: Stashing Pads
May 24, 2018, 06:46:23 pm
Reminds me about the John Sherman article "Boulevard of the Behemoths" about hunting carpets at the bouldering spots of the US. Anyone read it?

Yes- Funny as all get out...

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#32 Re: Stashing Pads
May 24, 2018, 09:12:20 pm
I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

Hmm, sets at local walls, likes lamp sessions, boulders pretty fucking hard?  Am I warm?

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#33 Re: Stashing Pads
May 24, 2018, 09:20:37 pm
I’m not sure there’s a black and white answer, but I think for most English venues it should be discouraged.

The thing is it seems a bit like in situ draws to me.  It’s probably fine if it’s just the odd person leaving draws/pads there for a few days to come back and finish a project off, but before you know it the place is littered with rotting eyesores which antagonise non-climbers.

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#34 Re: Stashing Pads
May 25, 2018, 08:22:53 am
I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

Hmm, sets at local walls, likes lamp sessions, boulders pretty fucking hard?  Am I warm?
.  Lets not give it away now...

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#35 Re: Stashing Pads
May 25, 2018, 10:51:27 am
I’ll also put forward your suggestion that his project is taking too long and he should go train/climb other things...! I will preserve his anonymity but if you knew who it was :lol:

Hmm, sets at local walls, likes lamp sessions, boulders pretty fucking hard?  Am I warm?
.  Lets not give it away now...

I'm pretty sure anyone who has been down this way can work it out! There's not that many of us down here!

Don't worry I won't tell anyone.............shush..........

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#36 Re: Stashing Pads
December 06, 2018, 08:22:24 am
Stumbled across this page - proof, if it were needed, that left pads may be discovered by none climbers.

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#37 Re: Stashing Pads
December 06, 2018, 09:56:12 am
Sounds like they might have been quite welcome for them lot!

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#38 Re: Stashing Pads
March 09, 2019, 08:05:42 am
Old thread resurrection and not about pads, but I was at a well known County crag yesterday and was a bit bemused to see a full size aluminium step-ladder hidden in very plain sight. Feels a bit unnecessary to me, it's not exactly that big a walk to get there. But then I am a grumpy bugger.

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#39 Re: Stashing Pads
March 09, 2019, 11:55:35 am
Wooden ladders are easier on the eye

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#40 Re: Stashing Pads
March 19, 2019, 12:49:50 pm
Anyone know why there's a spade under Count's crack at Stanage?

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#41 Re: Stashing Pads
March 19, 2019, 12:52:45 pm
Digging up patios ofc.

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#42 Re: Stashing Pads
March 19, 2019, 02:09:28 pm
It was more the location than the purpose that I was confused about. It's not hidden and it's not really near anywhere where you'd want to improve a landing or make a snow platform as far as I know.

I guess it could have been stashed in the cave under the front of the buttress and someone's found it and and put it in a more obvious place now I think about it.

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#43 Re: Stashing Pads
March 19, 2019, 03:18:03 pm
mountain bikers making tracks / jumps?

stashed shovels seem to be a normal thing for them

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#44 Re: Stashing Pads
March 20, 2019, 05:14:59 pm
Old thread resurrection and not about pads, but I was at a well known County crag yesterday and was a bit bemused to see a full size aluminium step-ladder hidden in very plain sight. Feels a bit unnecessary to me, it's not exactly that big a walk to get there. But then I am a grumpy bugger.

I’m guessing that was Kyloe in? There’s been a ladder there for years now ever since Earl was trying monk life, it used to be a wooden one but it got smashed up. That metal one usually lives in a cravass along the crag, lazy people not putting it back I assume.

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#45 Re: Stashing Pads
March 20, 2019, 05:26:22 pm
I’m guessing that was Kyloe in?
That's the one.

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#46 Re: Stashing Pads
July 05, 2019, 11:37:37 am

The issue is there's a line and I think it's sometimes difficult to know where to draw it; unlike in that example which is just plain laziness!

This example is quite clearly one side of the line! https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/lost+found/stashed_bouldering_pad_-_bowderstone-706919

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#47 Re: Stashing Pads
July 05, 2019, 12:30:26 pm
Didn't you read the post, Tim? When someone's done Picnic that many times they can do whatever they please.

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#48 Re: Stashing Pads
July 05, 2019, 12:36:18 pm
Ah yeah, so much makes sense now, that’s why 36Chambers stores his leggings collection under Demon Wall Roof!

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#49 Re: Stashing Pads
July 05, 2019, 12:56:09 pm
I wondered who's they were.

 

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