If it's fair game then why did they leave my other pad that had a phone number spray painted on it?
Sorry I'm not trying to argue, you have a valid point. I just figured I knew all the local climbers, I mean the population is 2000, and it's not a well known area (if you could even call it an area, haha).
It's not laziness. I was leaving it for other people to use too if they needed it too (I know people who really appreciated using it), and pads don't fit well on motorcycles. I generally think pretty highly of climbers, as a sharing and trustworthy community.

Think about what you guys are saying... "It serves [me] right," haha, seriously?! That hurts, man. I bet if I wasn't just some anonymous chump on the internet you'd have a lot more compassion. I'm sure you guys aren't that rude in person! What's funny is of all the people I've told about this, only one responded they way you guys did: my old boss, and he's is an ASSHOLE! But you guys probably aren't [read with sincerity].

Look, the point of the post was to see if I could get my pad back. I understand that it's my fault it's gone. But if I can get it back, one little post is worth the $300 I paid for it, and someone will feel like they did a good deed.
I just hope that wherever it is it's getting good use.

If it's fair game then why did they leave my other pad that had a phone number spray painted on it?
Sorry I'm not trying to argue, you have a valid point. I just figured I knew all the local climbers, I mean the population is 2000, and it's not a well known area (if you could even call it an area, haha).
It's not laziness. I was leaving it for other people to use too if they needed it too (I know people who really appreciated using it), and pads don't fit well on motorcycles. I generally think pretty highly of climbers, as a sharing and trustworthy community.

Think about what you guys are saying... "It serves [me] right," haha, seriously?! That hurts, man. I bet if I wasn't just some anonymous chump on the internet you'd have a lot more compassion. I'm sure you guys aren't that rude in person! What's funny is of all the people I've told about this, only one responded they way you guys did: my old boss, and he's is an ASSHOLE! But you guys probably aren't [read with sincerity].

Look, the point of the post was to see if I could get my pad back. I understand that it's my fault it's gone. But if I can get it back, one little post is worth the $300 I paid for it, and someone will feel like they did a good deed.
I just hope that wherever it is it's getting good use.

Yeah, I thought about leaving a note on it saying feel free to use, just leave it in the area.

I'm all about LNT, but I'd be stoked if I went to bouldering and the locals had left some community pads to be shared.

Someone accidentally took (I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt) my green Metolius Behemoth crash pad that I was stashing under my project by north beach in McCall.
If it was you, or you think you might know who it was, tell them that I am a human being with feelings (that are now hurt) and that I would like it back or at least some minor compensation so I can get another pad.
Please help restore my faith, if not in humanity, then at least in climbers.

Thanks

Haha, thanks man. That's refreshing!

The problem is so cool! It's a REALLY steep granite roof, with a big easy slab on top. The slab starts about 4 feet off the ground, but the roof starts 30 feet back (which makes it great for stashing pads!) There's a sloping ledge that runs the length of the roof, it's really slopey so you have to undercling it as you work your way out, but at a certain point the horrible feet get worse, and your left either getting parallel with the sloping ledge to get a heel on it, or making an almost 6 foot throw to a tiny sloper on the lip of the roof from your undercling position, hard compression is the only way the tiny sloper is even usable. I opted for the throw, then from there you can work your right hand and heel up the slopey ledge to the lip of the roof. At this point you have to work your hands up small irregular seams in the slab as you drag your heel out the remainder of the ledge until you can get all mantley on that b!tch and run up the slab for the win.
The day that I discovered someone had adopted my pad I was able to get the send of the easy version (skipping the elitist first 10 feet or so) and coming in at V5/6, but I'm sure half the opinionated gentlemen who have been posting here would have something to say about that too, haha, so I'm not even gonna comment on what I think the whole thing is. Oh, man, I'm just asking for it now!

The problem is so cool! It's a REALLY steep granite roof, with a big easy slab on top. The slab starts about 4 feet off the ground, but the roof starts 30 feet back (which makes it great for stashing pads!) There's a sloping ledge that runs the length of the roof, it's really slopey so you have to undercling it as you work your way out, but at a certain point the horrible feet get worse, and your left either getting parallel with the sloping ledge to get a heel on it, or making an almost 6 foot throw to a tiny sloper on the lip of the roof from your undercling position, hard compression is the only way the tiny sloper is even usable. I opted for the throw, then from there you can work your right hand and heel up the slopey ledge to the lip of the roof. At this point you have to work your hands up small irregular seams in the slab as you drag your heel out the remainder of the ledge until you can get all mantley on that b!tch and run up the slab for the win.
The day that I discovered someone had adopted my pad I was able to get the send of the easy version (skipping the elitist first 10 feet or so) and coming in at V5/6, but I'm sure half the opinionated gentlemen who have been posting here would have something to say about that too, haha, so I'm not even gonna comment on what I think the whole thing is. Oh, man, I'm just asking for it now!

I am shocked by how rude everyone is!

Ok, so I did something stupid, can you believe how mean everyone is being about it? Then someone asks for details about the route, so I share that, and get slammed for it!
Ask yourselves: "Would I react this way in person?" Then why are you acting this way online?

I would be embarrassed if I posted something like Subantz's comments.

I was gonna just delete this post because if the person who took the pad happens to read it they certainly won't give it back now, Haha! You guys have surely ruined the purpose of the post.
But I may leave it so that others can see how easily people can be assholes when de-individualized by the anonymity of the un-personal cyberspace "community." What a butchering of the word "community."

I'll own this though, I bet had I made a different thread title people wouldn't have been so rude.
Let's find out...

I am shocked by how rude everyone is!

Ok, so I did something stupid, can you believe how mean everyone is being about it? Then someone asks for details about the route, so I share that, and get slammed for it!
Ask yourselves: "Would I react this way in person?" Then why are you acting this way online?

I would be embarrassed if I posted something like Subantz's comments.

I was gonna just delete this post because if the person who took the pad happens to read it they certainly won't give it back now, Haha! You guys have surely ruined the purpose of the post.
But I may leave it so that others can see how easily people can be assholes when de-individualized by the anonymity of the un-personal cyberspace "community." What a butchering of the word "community."

I'll own this though, I bet had I made a different thread title people wouldn't have been so rude.
Let's find out...

Wow, you don't get what anyone is saying at all!
Try to follow....the majority of climbers object to boulderers stashing pads. It's viewed as a severe form of littering and the height of laziness. If your pad was stolen from your car, you'd probably get a lot more support. But taking a stashed pad is a laudable effort at trash clean-up after a lazy slacker. Your whining about it here is just producing the verbal bitch slap it deserves.

A lot of people here are being "mean" because *you* were so inconsiderate as to leave a big hunk of foam trash at a climbing area that someone else had to clean up.

I'm sorry for having allowed this great site to be littered with so much silly bickering. I feel pretty silly for having participated myself.

I have deleted my posts because they are useless clutter and I encourage the moderators to delete this thread for the same reason.