It's Lost season again

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Think of it as "Scavenger Hunt" season.

This thread has given me a great idea!!

New Post- re: lost back pack

Hey. I'm at the top of Silver Peak and just discovered I left my pack at the trail head. Green Lowe weighing about 35 lbs. with food and beverages. If anyone spots it, would you please bring it up? I'll be here until 3 P.M. Thanks.

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This thread has given me a great idea!!

New Post- re: lost back pack

Hey. I'm at the top of Silver Peak and just discovered I left my pack at the trail head. Green Lowe weighing about 35 lbs. with food and beverages. If anyone spots it, would you please bring it up?  I'll be here until 3 P.M. Thanks.

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I have your pack and will deliver it to you for a reward or if not paid within 24 hrs, it will be mine and I don't care if Johnathan S posts my e-mail address.

Who cares if it's not your partners doing the losing and thus presumably it is causing you more or less zero inconvenience?

I hadn't ever noticed this seasonality before, so I have to admit that you got me pondering. Is it really that seasonal, and if so, is it because of the mellow stupor that can be induced from relaxing in the sunny mountains, or perhaps some cognitive dissonance due to a sense that it's time to hike instead of ski? Or is it that things slide/roll away faster and further this time of year when you drop them on an incline? I think you should to a study and determine the root cause, Scotsman!

I think it is seasonal and if you check the TAY record for past years, we do usually go through a marked LOST season where this phenomena appears.

Who cares even if it doesn't affect you personally? My God man , this is TAY and no minute detail of the ski touring experience shall be left unmolested or dissected. Your logic could be applied to many things that we discuss on TAY that do not affect us personally but you are just being argumentative and dismissive because it's me.

Is it due to stupor, cognitive dissonance, hard surface/gravity interaction???? Not sure, maybe all or none.

However, I do think it's mainly due to sloppiness, lack of experience and partially due to the fact that spring/summer touring tends to bring out the beginners more( NTTIAWWT..being a beginner that is)

It may seem benign and so what, but frankly I think keeping your gear together and not dropping and loosing stuff when in the mountains is pretty important safety/ mountaineering wise. Drop a crampon , or lose your ice-axe, or leave it at camp, midway through a serious tour and you could get into trouble.

Yes, the "newbie factor" may well be significant here. And yes, of course, there's some safety risk associated with gear entropy en route (just as there is safety risk with choosing a challenging tour, skimping on food for tours, and any number of other common behaviors).

No, it's not "because it's you," though I'm unsure whether you'll buy that statement. This one fits into that category, like smoking, where the behavior has the most significant impact on the person doing it, followed by those closest to them (in this case, trip partners). Sure, with smoking there's the hit to the insurance pool, and here there may be some potential for SAR activity or whatever which of course imposes some risk on those who help with SAR. But in any case, this comes off to me as about the same as a rant about smokers that includes a comment that is basically aimed at shaming them - I'm just generally not wild about such public rants. But as long as we're talking about you, it does make sense  for the chief etiquette officer to start this sort of thread.