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Today at Sandford Quarry,Somerset I abseiled down a route called "The Big Bang Burger Bar"to remove a mattress that had become lodged on the in-situ iron spikes after the local chavs had lobbed it over the top.I can remember the Police asking us to remove a tailors dummy from a hole in the Main Wall at Avon Gorge but I`m sure the UKC collective can top that.
In reply to deepstar:
Not mine, but I nominate this
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=69486
Not mine, but I nominate this
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=69486
In reply to deepstar: That certainly beats the mattress!
In reply to deepstar: On Kaisergebirge Wall in the Pass, there used to be a bike crank that somebody had hammered into a crack for protection or aid. No friends in those days !
In reply to deepstar:
I read this as 'what is the most unusual thing you have removed from yourself on a route' And immediately thought back to 'that day'...
I read this as 'what is the most unusual thing you have removed from yourself on a route' And immediately thought back to 'that day'...
In reply to deepstar:
Not unusual as such but £10 off a handhold on Hope circa 1981 - it paid for a piss-up!
Not unusual as such but £10 off a handhold on Hope circa 1981 - it paid for a piss-up!
In reply to deepstar: Found but not removed a green plastic frog, pitch three of frog and red rocks
In reply to deepstar:
There was a post on here a while back about someone removing a severed finger from a rout somewhere.
There was a post on here a while back about someone removing a severed finger from a rout somewhere.
In reply to deepstar: Myself from sarcophagos, chudleigh. I got very wedged and very stuck
In reply to deepstar: a poweranger on a ledge in wilton 3
In reply to deepstar: Didn't remove the pottery squirrel from the top of Sgurr Alasdair....
Did remove the shrapnel from a handhold on Vostok (a VS on the Falklands on a battle site)....
Did remove the turd curled down in the shape of a love heart from a single pitch route in Central Scotland!
Did remove the shrapnel from a handhold on Vostok (a VS on the Falklands on a battle site)....
Did remove the turd curled down in the shape of a love heart from a single pitch route in Central Scotland!
In reply to deepstar: a rusted dog lead from scafell. dog was nowhere to be seen.
In reply to shaggypops:
Oh yes, that reminds me - my climbing partner and I removed a well-endowed young lass from The Crescent:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=124298
> Myself
Oh yes, that reminds me - my climbing partner and I removed a well-endowed young lass from The Crescent:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=124298
In reply to deepstar:
I've removed two sheep from one ledge some years ago.. I removed myself from a belay ledge at the top of a second pitch as it was easier than removing the snake that was sharing it with me.
I've removed two sheep from one ledge some years ago.. I removed myself from a belay ledge at the top of a second pitch as it was easier than removing the snake that was sharing it with me.
In reply to deepstar:
When I were a lad (zzz...) Mickey Rooney (no, honestly!) and I found an artillery shell standing at the bottom of a route at Hares Castle, in the Mournes. Naturally we knocked it along the bottom of the crag - like you do. We thought we'd take it up to the top and throw it off but got a bit stuck so lobbed it off the half-way mark instead. Eventually we got bored and may actually have done some climbing.
Next man up, the next day, was one Dave Armstrong, who (unlike us) had been to 'the Eton of Ulster'. Dave took it down from the crag to the local police station. When he put it on the table, the place promptly evacuated. A couple of minutes later, Dave found himself facing some white-knuckled chaps with aforesaid white-knuckles on triggers. Naturally he explained the situation perfectly. After about the third time, they showed signs of actually believing him.
A couple of hours later, the shell was detonated by an army explosives team. When Dave told Mickey, his face went 'a whiter shade of pale'.
All good clean fun, the sort which makes you wonder how, in heaven's name, you survived.
Mick
When I were a lad (zzz...) Mickey Rooney (no, honestly!) and I found an artillery shell standing at the bottom of a route at Hares Castle, in the Mournes. Naturally we knocked it along the bottom of the crag - like you do. We thought we'd take it up to the top and throw it off but got a bit stuck so lobbed it off the half-way mark instead. Eventually we got bored and may actually have done some climbing.
Next man up, the next day, was one Dave Armstrong, who (unlike us) had been to 'the Eton of Ulster'. Dave took it down from the crag to the local police station. When he put it on the table, the place promptly evacuated. A couple of minutes later, Dave found himself facing some white-knuckled chaps with aforesaid white-knuckles on triggers. Naturally he explained the situation perfectly. After about the third time, they showed signs of actually believing him.
A couple of hours later, the shell was detonated by an army explosives team. When Dave told Mickey, his face went 'a whiter shade of pale'.
All good clean fun, the sort which makes you wonder how, in heaven's name, you survived.
Mick
In reply to deepstar:
A pair of used knickers - can't remember the route.
No sign of the original owner.
A pair of used knickers - can't remember the route.
No sign of the original owner.
In reply to Mick Ward:
Aha... http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=110121
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> When I were a lad (zzz...) Mickey Rooney (no, honestly!) and I found an artillery shell (... )
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> When I were a lad (zzz...) Mickey Rooney (no, honestly!) and I found an artillery shell (... )
Aha... http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=110121
In reply to AlH:
HaHa yes i remember seeing that squirrel up there, wonder what happened to it?
> (In reply to deepstar) Didn't remove the pottery squirrel from the top of Sgurr Alasdair....
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HaHa yes i remember seeing that squirrel up there, wonder what happened to it?
Ask any of my climbing partners and they'll probably say a bit of my pro. Some of them have even, over the years, managed to extract two pieces.
In reply to deepstar: There used to be an in situ gnome at the bottom of Pencoed Pillar - not sure if it's still there.
I found a very frozen mouse with a 4" sling, an 8" sling, and a crab in Sinister Gully (Cwm Glas) one winter: never worked out how they came to be frozen together, although each by itself would be unremarkable. Presumably it was tied off in situ but I wouldn't fancy falling on it!
b
I found a very frozen mouse with a 4" sling, an 8" sling, and a crab in Sinister Gully (Cwm Glas) one winter: never worked out how they came to be frozen together, although each by itself would be unremarkable. Presumably it was tied off in situ but I wouldn't fancy falling on it!
b
In reply to deepstar:
Not removed, because the locals (and guide book) asks you not to...
Tibia (a route at Whanganui Bay in New Zealand) has human remains in it.
Not removed, because the locals (and guide book) asks you not to...
Tibia (a route at Whanganui Bay in New Zealand) has human remains in it.
In reply to deepstar: A naked Babie Doll with a slightly green tint to her hair was waiting for me at the top of the Vicarage Cliff a few years back
In reply to deepstar:
You may find this a bit too unusual to believe, but I once removed a toprope from Chalkstorm at the Roaches. Honest.
You may find this a bit too unusual to believe, but I once removed a toprope from Chalkstorm at the Roaches. Honest.
In reply to LastBoyScout:
How used? or is used for what, a better question?
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> A pair of used knickers - can't remember the route.
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> No sign of the original owner.
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> A pair of used knickers - can't remember the route.
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> No sign of the original owner.
How used? or is used for what, a better question?
In reply to deepstar: You used to be able to collect a veritable stash of pron fron the bottom of Unknown buttress at Avon. Have also found a fully operational plastic robot toy halfway up the second pitch of gronk... but it's all a bit poxey compared to live ordinence!
In reply to jon:
Wow! That's far better than the one we found (which looked pretty boring really). Now, if we'd found that one, we'd have given it a proper kicking!
Mick
Wow! That's far better than the one we found (which looked pretty boring really). Now, if we'd found that one, we'd have given it a proper kicking!
Mick
In reply to deepstar: My uncle removed a finger from a crack down at bosi.
That was pretty grim...
That was pretty grim...
In reply to Dave Searle:
I've remove my finger from a crack a few times... that was grim too, though not always.
> (In reply to deepstar) My uncle removed a finger from a crack down at bosi.
> That was pretty grim...
> That was pretty grim...
I've remove my finger from a crack a few times... that was grim too, though not always.
In reply to deepstar:
My own car keys from a horizontal break. Being as I was seconding a first ascent, and the first ascentionist denied putting them there, this has always remined a mystery!
My own car keys from a horizontal break. Being as I was seconding a first ascent, and the first ascentionist denied putting them there, this has always remined a mystery!
In reply to deepstar: A line of plastic soldiers, all left in place.
In reply to deepstar: I once removed a huge spanner from a certain route...
yup, I was that man.
yup, I was that man.
In reply to krikoman:
Presumably not half as grim as inserting it in the first place?
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> I've remove my finger from a crack a few times... that was grim too, though not always.
> I've remove my finger from a crack a few times... that was grim too, though not always.
Presumably not half as grim as inserting it in the first place?
In reply to deepstar:
I once salvaged my dignity. Unusual in the sense that I hadn't previously considered myself as having one.
> What is the most unusual thing you have removed from a route?
I once salvaged my dignity. Unusual in the sense that I hadn't previously considered myself as having one.
In reply to deepstar: I didn't remove him but I found this fella a few years back......
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=109665
......scared the b'Jesus outta me!
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.php?id=109665
......scared the b'Jesus outta me!
In reply to Mick Ward: Bit off topic, but there's been a good few shells gone off there this summer! The Navy used to use blue lough for target practise!
In reply to Starkey92:
I knew someone had used the Mournes for target practice but never knew who. Ours seemed like what I think a Navy shell looks like. Odd to think of shells lying in the heather for so long. When Mickey and I found ours', it must have been a good 40 years ago.
I guess you never really know what's under your feet...
Mick
I knew someone had used the Mournes for target practice but never knew who. Ours seemed like what I think a Navy shell looks like. Odd to think of shells lying in the heather for so long. When Mickey and I found ours', it must have been a good 40 years ago.
I guess you never really know what's under your feet...
Mick
In reply to deepstar:
Not a route, but the weirdest thing i've seen while climbing something was a large plasticine fly and a small figure of a man with his arms stretched out as if in appeal about something ontop of a pillar in The Foundry, can remember being 12 or 13 and trying to climb up the side of the pillar and catching glimpses of the two models before falling off again. It seemed surreal.
Not a route, but the weirdest thing i've seen while climbing something was a large plasticine fly and a small figure of a man with his arms stretched out as if in appeal about something ontop of a pillar in The Foundry, can remember being 12 or 13 and trying to climb up the side of the pillar and catching glimpses of the two models before falling off again. It seemed surreal.
In reply to deepstar:
Three months ago I went to remove my yellow beal joker from a crack on the third pitch of a climb (in spain), as I saw it falling into it and thought it might get jammed. As I went to grab it I just touched it and realised it was a snake. Okay, so I didn't actually remove something, but it was close.
Three months ago I went to remove my yellow beal joker from a crack on the third pitch of a climb (in spain), as I saw it falling into it and thought it might get jammed. As I went to grab it I just touched it and realised it was a snake. Okay, so I didn't actually remove something, but it was close.
In reply to deepstar:
How about a body! (although technically MRT team recovered him)
Unfortunately we discovered a walker who had fallen down the Aspirant on Great End. The Police had spent a considerable number of man hours looking for him in September, we found him early February!
A real tradegy, he'd obviously become disorientated on his decent, possibly from Scafell. We found him on a ledge system just before the easy ground exit from the climb.
How about a body! (although technically MRT team recovered him)
Unfortunately we discovered a walker who had fallen down the Aspirant on Great End. The Police had spent a considerable number of man hours looking for him in September, we found him early February!
A real tradegy, he'd obviously become disorientated on his decent, possibly from Scafell. We found him on a ledge system just before the easy ground exit from the climb.
In reply to deepstar: Many years ago one balmy summers evening at Stanage, I found a walking boot (FEB mountain boot to be precise) jammed solid into the wide part of Christmas Crack, complete with woollen sock hanging out.
Mind you, on another occasion, we found a bearded man in molecord breeches, jammed solid inside Swimmers Chimney at Froggatt - took us about 2 hours to get him out, and only then after we had prized his head out of his helmet, which was left there if I remember correctly.
Mind you, on another occasion, we found a bearded man in molecord breeches, jammed solid inside Swimmers Chimney at Froggatt - took us about 2 hours to get him out, and only then after we had prized his head out of his helmet, which was left there if I remember correctly.
In reply to deepstar:
In france half way up 6c that I was struggling on I may have unsympathetically removed a toad that was in a crack. it bounced and when my belayer let go of the rope to go poke it i began to wonder wether i too would bounce but unlike the toad i probably wouldnt have hopped away unharmed!
In france half way up 6c that I was struggling on I may have unsympathetically removed a toad that was in a crack. it bounced and when my belayer let go of the rope to go poke it i began to wonder wether i too would bounce but unlike the toad i probably wouldnt have hopped away unharmed!
In reply to deepstar:
A nice crisp £20 note sitting on a tuft of heather on Bellows (Stac an Fharaidh on Cairngorm). We think that the unfortunate previous owner had crashed in a cessna near the summit the previous winter. I like my swag to be readily exchangeable for refreshment in the local hostelry.
A nice crisp £20 note sitting on a tuft of heather on Bellows (Stac an Fharaidh on Cairngorm). We think that the unfortunate previous owner had crashed in a cessna near the summit the previous winter. I like my swag to be readily exchangeable for refreshment in the local hostelry.
In reply to deepstar: My friend's girlfriend, whom he had got cragfast by taking us off route scrambling up Bristly Ridge! I was bringing up the rear and found him on one side of a gully and her stuck on the opposite site. Had to go and extricate her whilst he got himself out of trouble! I still have a scar on my leg somewhere where she used me as an extra foothold!
Once all at the top, he proposed to her (and she said yes!).
Once all at the top, he proposed to her (and she said yes!).
In reply to deepstar:
I once found a plastic toy Yoda in full working order (it even used "the force" to move a disc on its base) half way up a route in llangollen. provided endless hours of entertainment in the pub!
I once found a plastic toy Yoda in full working order (it even used "the force" to move a disc on its base) half way up a route in llangollen. provided endless hours of entertainment in the pub!
In reply to benrigby: On thursday, I removed a big old post from the top of a gully on Ben Nevis. It had the number 4 written on it....
In reply to WillRawlinson:
On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
It crossed my mind to phone the number on the tag and tell the owner I'd found his pigeon, but I thought better of it.
On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
It crossed my mind to phone the number on the tag and tell the owner I'd found his pigeon, but I thought better of it.
In reply to Martin Hore:
tons of them in the Wye Valley!
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> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
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> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
tons of them in the Wye Valley!
In reply to Martin Hore:
That was still there this year.
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> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
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> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
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That was still there this year.
In reply to deepstar: A war head out of Mychical Monster.
In reply to Martin Hore:
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> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
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> It crossed my mind to phone the number on the tag and tell the owner I'd found his pigeon, but I thought better of it.
I regularly find pigeon rings in Sanford Quarry as there is a pair of Peregrin Falcons living there.I take them home and email the pigeon racing club(wich you can google)and they always send a grateful reply.>
> On the second stance of West Wall Climb, shared with Beeston Eliminate, I once found a metal tag attached to a small piece of bone in a mass of pigeon feathers. Some bird of prey had obviously decided not to swallow the tag as well.
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> It crossed my mind to phone the number on the tag and tell the owner I'd found his pigeon, but I thought better of it.
In reply to deepstar: Skye July 1983 we found 2 packets of durex below the Cioch, one packet unopened and one with one missing, brave man! Could you not have waited and shagged her on top of the Cioch been much better than the sword fight scene in Highlander!!
In reply to Gary Gibson:
Yes Gary, I remember those. And in fact, didn't you have to thread one as part of the belay? I remember the floor of the Leap was littered with them.
> (In reply to deepstar) A war head out of Mychical Monster.
Yes Gary, I remember those. And in fact, didn't you have to thread one as part of the belay? I remember the floor of the Leap was littered with them.
In reply to jon: I did belay on it. Interestingly we found an entire fishing net wrapped around the bottom of Eat Drink and Beat Gary on Bosherston. No fish though! I also found a golf ball half way up The Watchtower on Stanage during the first ascent!
In reply to deepstar: We found a 10" WW1 french artillery shell used by the occupying Germans as a 'roll bomb' in WW2 on a sea-level scramble here a few years back. Was too heavy to take home as a souvenir unfortunately!
In reply to deepstar: i love cats, I love every kind of cat
In reply to deepstar:
Wasn't there a post on here a couple of days ago, since deleted, about a 12 inch dildo on top of Napes Needle?
Wasn't there a post on here a couple of days ago, since deleted, about a 12 inch dildo on top of Napes Needle?
In reply to deepstar: once removed a frenchie from a route in the Alps trying to push in ..he was quite unusual..
i didnt remove but found, a tiny russian doll on a route at Fixin in Bourgogne
In reply to deepstar: Never removed it but me and my partner climbed past a bicycle on a route down at Ansteys cove in Torquay. Rather bizarre to say the least!
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