Incident:Gear Stolen in Yosemite Falls (Upper) 2018/10/12

Incident:Gear Stolen in Yosemite Falls (Upper) 2018/10/12
Date	2018/10/12
Location	Yosemite Falls (Upper)
Severity	Gear loss
Canyoneering-related	Yes
SAR involvement	No
Navigation problem	No
Environmental problem	No
Communication problem	No
Planning problem	No
Skills problem	No
Body movement problem	No
Rigging problem	No
Rappel problem	No
Insufficient gear	No
Gear failure	No

Summary

Gear Stolen

Accounts

We had stashed much of our technical gear at top of Yosemite falls late Friday night. Some of the gear that was hidden just off the trail near the observation deck was gone the next morning (2 sets of vertical gear, 2 helmets, 200ft rope and backpack). Fortunately one of the 600ft ropes was only carried a couple hundred feet away and dropped, otherwise we would not have been able to do this descent. Most of my gear I stashed beyond the railing, hidden behind boulder in a much more exposed position, was not touched. That allowed me to rig on Saturday and 2 others to descend, then the other 3 members got to descend on Sunday and tear down. But they had to hike back down to the valley Saturday and retrieved more gear from our vehicles to make this work.