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In reply to itsThere: Brings back memories of the remains of a car my partner and I found at the top of Quality Street near Torquay. Couldn't even tell what car it was.

In reply to itsThere:

Marbles embedded into the rock - probably lobbed off the top by chavs...

In reply to itsThere:

East side of Beinn Trilleachan, the container rattled thus we decided it wasn't someones ashes.

http://prog99.com/Stuff/IMG_3029.jpg
http://prog99.com/Stuff/IMG_3030.jpg

should have got my mate to stand next to it, it looked like part of a train carrage.

In reply to itsThere:

Shit. Everywhere.

In reply to itsThere: Before the days of the internet it wasn't unusual to find discarded copies of adult literature in the quarries of Lancashire and suchlike places.

In reply to itsThere: About 15 years ago at Kips Crag at Menstrie. 15ft up there was a pound coin delicately balanced on a tiny edge. Had to have been placed there, no way it fell from above or landed after being thrown.

In reply to itsThere:
Last time I was at Agden Rocher there was a line of half a dozen sheep skulls on a narrow ledge. Slightly spooky.

In reply to itsThere: How about a live 22cm WW1 french artillery shell? The occupying Germans hung them over the edges of the cliffs on wires to be dropped on attacking commandoes in WW2. We found one when scrambling round from one of the more popular crags and had the police bomb disposal team blow it up the next day. One crag has the remains of a few cars at the bottom, one day we found a mini that has been pushed over but didn't make it all the way down, it had come to rest on steep grass 80foot up. It had obviously gone over the previous night so on approaching it we didn't know if it was a failed suicide or just flytipping. It had been flytipped, and someone obviously went back and finished the job the next night.

In reply to deepsoup:

Guilty -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/5542281221/in/set-72157615718625139

In reply to Toerag:

once found a green beret (as in the hat).

In reply to itsThere:

The Red Pencil marking the start of Red Pencil in Yorkshire is a good one. Also cleaned lots of aircraft debris form cracks on Memorial Crag when we put up new routes there.
http://www.johnbiggar.com/memorial-crag-rock-climbing.asp

In reply to itsThere:

A very new rope and a pair of soiled underpants at Gimmer.....we threw away the rope obviously

£10 on a tiny ledge on Hope



someone found my car keys at the botoom of the Plum at tremadog after i'd dropped them 100' into the veg!

In reply to itsThere: There's a GeoCache at the top of Little Tryfan, we started a radioactive Travel Bug off there a few years ago (sadly now lost).

In reply to Bulls Crack: was that 10 pounds in change or a note. also did you post on the lost and found for the underpants

In reply to itsThere:

Pair of knickers.

Sheep stuck half way up a crag.

In reply to itsThere:

I (or more correctly Sherri) has found various amounts of cash (€40-€90) on at least half a dozen occasions at a whole variety of cliffs. All I ever find is 2nd hand bog-paper!


Chris

In reply to itsThere:
I was once trowelling my way up Compost Wall at Wintours Leap and came nose to nose with a semi-decayed dog.

Regularly used to find garden gnomes living in jamming cracks several hundred feet up on the Culm coast

Tea Time ledge at Avon used to have a large, 3 seater sofa.

The best must be descending to the beach Hartland point and discovering an entire ship sitting on the boulders.

In reply to Chris Craggs:

She doesn't find it in people's wallets in their rucksacks does she?

In reply to itsThere:

Some dignity. Them promptly lost it again.. anyone seen it?

In reply to wayno265:

On every occasion we were the only people at the crag.


Chris

In reply to itsThere: A small, toy crocadile at Troller's Gill.

In reply to LastBoyScout:

While climbing at Dow crag inthe Lake District I was wondering how the tiny little ledge I was sitting on came to have so much sheep poo on it.
It made me think about Dave Birket and his sheep rescuing antics.

In reply to itsThere:

golf balls - on routes in deep dale, bradley quarry and south devon.

lamb (still alive) in a snare - North yorks moors, can't remember which crag, one with a starred E1 and E3 (freed it, removed snare and informed RSPCA)

In reply to nickcanute:


believe it or not there are a few!

In reply to itsThere:

A friend once told me a story about topping out on Squareface to find a large fibreglass animal of description there...can't remember what it was, a giraffe or an elephant or something. Most odd, I wish I had seen it.

In reply to itsThere:

In the 60's Esso (I think) had a promotion to 'Put a tiger in your tank'.
Garage forecourts had large tiger (about 6 foot tall) cutouts on display.

One of these resided high up on the wall of N'Gombo in Llanberis Pass for ages!

I'd love to know who put it there.
Dare he/she/they own up after all this time?

In reply to kathrync:

I've heard that too and seen a picture of it, its an elephant! Very strange. I'll have a look and see if I can find my mate's photo.

In reply to itsThere:

Putting a new route up in Gibraltar I found a cannon ball jammed in an off-width crack. I put a sling around it, clipped it and carried on climbing... it doesn't get any more bomber than that (ho ho!).

Turned out it was from the 1700's used during the Great Siege in Gibraltar.

In reply to king_of_gibraltar:

What did you name the route?

In reply to EddInaBox: I think you guessed it Cannon Ball. Haha.

Once found a couple snagging on a ledge halfway up a climb on the south side of the llanberis pass

In reply to itsThere: royal wedding mug on the top of the old man of hoy

In reply to itsThere: Found a metal skull in acrack at court knowe

In reply to michaelc54: Was she fit?

In reply to itsThere: 2 plastic swords stuffed in a crack on the Cioch.

In reply to LastBoyScout:

Mate of mine had a sheep fall right off the top of a crag a few months back. Nearly took out his belayer! Not a short climb either...

In reply to itsThere: There's always the Guns cliff in Jersey:-
http://www.steve-powell.co.uk/festung/Misc/slides/guns6.html

In reply to itsThere:

The most random was a bloke asleep next to Flying Dutchman in Glen Nevis. How the feck the midgies hadn't stripped the flesh from his bones I'll never know.

In reply to itsThere:

I once found a large (grapefruit sized) plastic frog on Snowdon's Trinity Face!

In reply to itsThere:

I found a small buddha (statue) at Gardom's which I left on a nice little ledge higher up a route.

I wonder if anyone else spotted it.

In reply to staceyjg: Its still there!, my mate spotted it on saturday, i think around the area of or on giants staircase..

Good thread!

A GeoCache at Froggatt (won't say which route, but it's well hidden!)

A few months ago I topped out on Scroach, at Curbar, into someone's scattered ashes - not very pleasant (it was a windy day, too).

Garheugh Port in southwest Scotland is a brilliant beach bouldering venue, but also sadly a handy fly-tipping spot with the road running right along the top of part of the cliff. When I was there there was a showroom-ful of washing machines and other white goods, and a suspicious-looking rented van loitered at the top of the cliff for a while before it became apparent to them that I was watching and could see their registration plate!

Pete.

In reply to Dave Warburton:

meant to say a good E1 and E3 but little else.. went to look in me book.. it was pallet crag so not even N yorks moors! soz

In reply to itsThere: poo....lots of it

In reply to Chris Craggs:
she's picking your pocket, mate!

In reply to itsThere: i found an action man about 20foot up a route. Feet on an edge n hand with a solid fist jam lol

In reply to itsThere: This is the best thread I've ever seen. I actually want to go climbing and look for stuff now

In reply to itsThere: I've never found anything outdoors but on a quiet day at the local wall I found several jelly babies/gummy bears on the holds.

Some guy had been putting them there to teach his kids to climb by finding the sweets!

In reply to itsThere: my wife 1992 Pavey Ark.

In reply to itsThere:

Topped out on Brown Slabs, Shepherd's Crag (Borrowdale) a day or two ago to find this drawn in chalk on the back side (where the belays anchors are):

http://i.imgur.com/c126o.jpg

Certainly lightened the mood before going off the descent route in the dark and having to ab down mossy slabs and through an oak tree!

In reply to owlart:

What is a radioactive travel bug????

http://img.geocaching.com/track/display/38a2446c-fdaa-47b1-b7bd-312bebca1e6...