There has been a mysterious removal of about $2000 worth of gear from Hillwood recently, which thankfully has been recovered, but nonetheless was a weird situation indeed. Bob McMahon was conducting a school climbing camp at Hillwood and left several abseil setups, top-ropes etc overnight for the school kids the next day. When they came back the next morning, all the gear was gone. There were some climbers at Hillwood that day while Bob was with the school group, and if they were the culprits, should have realised that it was Bob's gear for the school group. By a sheer fluke, one of the students found a note stuck in a bush saying `we have the gear' and gave a phone number. When Bob went round to collect it an evasive fellow gave him the run around before finally admitting that the gear was in the house. It seems he was not at Hillwood on the day, but his mates had dropped the gear at his house. Was this to stay anonymous? Were they fair dinkum thieves who got cold feet? Who knows - a mystery indeed.