Abandoned Hiking Climbing Gear - Common?

[trailhound]

Trailhound, my wife and I may have been on the Copper cyn hike with you in 2012, we brought homemade ice cream for the group.
I’ve found climbing gear twice in canyon areas where it just looked forgotten and I thought about taking it out as trash, but not being a climber I didn’t want to do something dumb out of ignorance so I just left it there. I’m hoping to drag my sister up Grave cyn in a few weeks where I found a helmet and some other gear in 2015, we’ll see if it’s there still.

Hi Shane, I just now saw your reply. Yes, you were on the hike with us. I remember the ice cream and wow was it good. I was the tall guy (6'5") with the short wife (5'2").