Bear Creek Spire Thievery
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:33 am
My climbing partner and I had a rude surprise on Sunday after summiting Bear Creek Spire via the Ulrich's route. we returned to Cox Col where we had left our ice axes and crampons and found that they had been taken by someone while we were summiting.
We had only seen on one other pair of climbers in the area that day and I have reason to believe they were not the culprits because the thief left a long, heavy, homemade looking wooden hiking pole in place of our gear.These other climbers had trekking poles. This item also leads me to believe that the thief was not out there climbing a technical route because it would make no sense to climb with such an impractical hiking pole. I decided to carry the pole out.
If you know someone who hikes with a big heavy pole and was in the Little Lakes or Lake Italy area over the weekend I would like to find this person.
So now I'm left wondering why someone would do such a thing and leave us to have to descend the mountain without our safety equipment. If anyone out there hears of someone trying to sell a BD Raven or BD Raven Pro ice axe or a new pair BD Contact crampons with the REI used gear "X" on them or a pair of Petzl strap-on crampons with an OR crampon bag, I would appreciate it it if you left me know.
We had only seen on one other pair of climbers in the area that day and I have reason to believe they were not the culprits because the thief left a long, heavy, homemade looking wooden hiking pole in place of our gear.These other climbers had trekking poles. This item also leads me to believe that the thief was not out there climbing a technical route because it would make no sense to climb with such an impractical hiking pole. I decided to carry the pole out.
If you know someone who hikes with a big heavy pole and was in the Little Lakes or Lake Italy area over the weekend I would like to find this person.
So now I'm left wondering why someone would do such a thing and leave us to have to descend the mountain without our safety equipment. If anyone out there hears of someone trying to sell a BD Raven or BD Raven Pro ice axe or a new pair BD Contact crampons with the REI used gear "X" on them or a pair of Petzl strap-on crampons with an OR crampon bag, I would appreciate it it if you left me know.