Missing hiker found

[deltabrian]

Free Gear?

30 pounds of ice screws? By my calculation, that would be about 90 screws!

350 ft of rope

So, if he dumped that gear out there, does the universal rule of finder's keeper's apply?

 

[Maddy]

Universal rule
I think it would be a greater act of kindness to retrieve it and contact SAR to return it to him. They must have his contact info. After what he has been through I bet he would really be grateful that someone cared enough to do that for him.
As Rolling Rock shared, he might have been carrying that weight for training purposes.