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Have you ever lost a cam by fixing it enroute?

(If so, post the brand of it below!)

Have you ever successfully retrieved a fixed cam?

20%

(If so, post the brand of it below!)

Have U tried 2retrieve afixed cam unsuccessfully?

30%

Do you think fixed cams are common? - yes

Do you think fixed cams are common? - no

40%

Bah humbug, polls are stupid, so who cares anyway?

10%

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End of era: no more stuck cams - take 2! 5-Feb-2020 At 4:52:55 AM johnpitcairn

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Need to be able to vote for more than one category ...

At the Mt Eden Quarry long side, there is a classic "beginner's" route, Silver Airman, 16. A few years back, we discovered a brand new link cam fixed in the wrong crack (there's good nuts in the thin middle crack, left is for finger locks).

Presumably mummy had bought their trad-curious birthday child the most expensive cam available, they'd jumped on a bit of a classic urban sandbag, shat themselves and plugged in a panic piece, shoving it in to fully overcammed. No way it was coming out. We couldn't get anyone to own up to it.

It sat there fixed for around six months, with other idiots clipping it and various attempts to get it out, until somebody got concerned enough to cut the sling off it. Another month or so went by. I went up with assorted tools and had a serious go at extracting it. Nope. Broke it a bit in the process.

Finally I took a big f'in hammer and a cold chisel up and smashed the damn thing as far into the crack as I could. It's still there as far as I know. The crag is currently closed.