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scubasnyder
Dec 25, 2003, 4:07 PM
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Whats your favorite piece of gear on your rack, i must say i like my .75 BD cam, its so useful where i climb. chalk bag is nice to though. i cant pic just one thing.
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tradkelly
Dec 25, 2003, 5:34 PM
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Pink tricam. Bar none, the most useful piece I've ever owned. I use it on sport climbs, trad climbs, ice climbs, the works. I love the pink.
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fredo
Dec 25, 2003, 6:19 PM
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Ohhh...this is a hard one to consider....I'd have to say that nothing loosens the spinchter more than my #1 Camalot. Of course the #5 Chiounard stopper that held my 20ft whipper last August comes in at a close 2nd :lol:
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smellyhippie
Dec 25, 2003, 7:00 PM
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The green alien is my lucky piece. I always feel good with it beneath me.
Nate
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reno
Dec 25, 2003, 7:43 PM
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Pink....
It's all about the pink.
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andypro
Dec 25, 2003, 7:55 PM
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I'ts a tossup between my red or brown tricam, green metolius FCU, and ther ed trango TCU. I'm leaning towards the red trango tCU. Saved my butt more times than I can remember I'm sure.
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berkov
Dec 25, 2003, 8:15 PM
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there is nothing more useful than tricams and the pink one is just so damn cute
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fryinbacon
Dec 25, 2003, 9:07 PM
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2 BIG nuts
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adamwvt
Dec 25, 2003, 9:15 PM
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I love my stinky pinkie.
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sharpender
Dec 25, 2003, 9:16 PM
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The last piece I placed. 8)
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melekzek
Dec 25, 2003, 9:17 PM
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In reply to: the pink one is just so damn cute
I was gonna say that....
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buttets
Dec 25, 2003, 9:45 PM
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It has to be my #3 TCU that is at least 10 years old with the original webbing! It looks like sh*t and bent all over the place but it is the first piece on my rack. It has caught me on more falls than any other piece of gear and i always seem to be able to find a place to put it - when it dies it will go on my wall like a big buck trophy deer....
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scubasnyder
Dec 25, 2003, 11:17 PM
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i do like the pink one as well but it likes to get stuck.
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kunzie
Dec 25, 2003, 11:34 PM
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The number 7 rockcentric. Sexiest piece on my rack, just looking at it gets me off (I'm 17 and single, god help me :P )
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moabbeth
Dec 25, 2003, 11:38 PM
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In reply to: The green alien is my lucky piece. I always feel good with it beneath me. Nate
I second that...Green Alien is the only piece I've ever kissed with thanks.
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vegastradguy
Dec 26, 2003, 6:27 AM
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i cant say that its ever saved my life yet, but my fav cam is my Yellow Alien. got two of 'em, and love them both equally.
a close second is the rest of my rack equally, because i love them all! :D
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brutusofwyde
Dec 26, 2003, 1:59 PM
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Apollodorus-manufactured #9 Valley Giant. Sticks like glue when nothing else will do.
Brutus of Wyde
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Oakland. California
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sbclimber
Dec 26, 2003, 5:23 PM
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In reply to: Pink tricam. Bar none, the most useful piece I've ever owned. I use it on sport climbs, trad climbs, ice climbs, the works. I love the pink. |
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deafclimber
Dec 26, 2003, 6:14 PM
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ONE WORD...
TRICAM !
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trapdoor
Dec 26, 2003, 7:52 PM
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The one that fits. After a runout.
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okc_discgolfer
Dec 26, 2003, 10:28 PM
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not really part of my rack....but my harness saves my ass every time i climb
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slcliffdiver
Dec 26, 2003, 11:29 PM
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They aren't sexy but I love my #10 BD stoppers. They place about as often as anything on my rack and I feel great when I sink them.
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holdplease2
Dec 27, 2003, 12:06 AM
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My only annodized BD #10...my favorite color. Black!
And a story:
When I climbed Prodigal Sun, the guys climbing ahead of me dropped their clothes bag (all their pricy rain gear). I met up with them the day after the climb when they went out on the crazy slabby crap below the climb to retreive their lost bag...
The came up the hill with a handfull of booty that others had dropped. One of the peices of booty was my PROPERLY TAGGED black stopper! I never even knew I dropped it! (Cut me some slack, first wall, solo, I was scared!)
Of course they gave it back and I bought them breakfast!
Looooovvvee that nut!
-Kate.
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alikb
Dec 27, 2003, 12:49 AM
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definetly the yellow alien. fits like nothing else in all those valley pin scars.
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maculated
Dec 27, 2003, 4:59 AM
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maculated moved this thread from General to Trad Climbing.
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rckclimbergurl
Dec 27, 2003, 4:02 PM
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I'd have to say that I like my hexes n' nuts the best. (Even though this is a large amount of all the trad gear that I own, but what the hey..) Every time I've used one of 'em.. they feel sooooooooooo solid.
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mrme
Dec 27, 2003, 6:10 PM
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bd #1 red camolot
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afiveonbelay
Dec 27, 2003, 6:20 PM
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My nut tool for without I would have left gear all over the east
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md
Dec 28, 2003, 2:10 AM
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#5 Camalot. I got for climbing at Devil's Tower, though it was fairly useless you sure feel great when you finally place the damn thing and don't have to carry it any further. I recommned placing first thing off the belay :D
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dlintz
Dec 28, 2003, 4:55 AM
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My #5 Metolius Curve Nut (blue). It seems there's been a place to use it on almost every route I've done.
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dirtineye
Dec 29, 2003, 7:21 PM
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My favorite piece is the one that fits in that situation where you MUST have a good piece. On the last tedious FA we did, there were several such places, one called for two ball nuts, one for a brown tri cam, one for a metuleus astro nut, one for a couple of Zero friends, and one for a 9 BD nut. Without every one of those pieces, the route would really suck, in fact it sucked anyway hahaha.
Aesthetically speaking, Tricams are my favorite and are generally the most adaptable and useful. Hey tricams are magic, right?
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gat
Dec 31, 2003, 5:47 PM
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Gotta agree with many of the others...pink tri-cam.
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jcain
Jan 2, 2004, 7:33 PM
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The pink tri-cam is my favorite as well.
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drkodos
Jan 2, 2004, 7:42 PM
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In reply to: Pink.... It's all about the pink.
Nice cross reference to boobs.
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nagatana
Jan 2, 2004, 9:05 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Pink.... It's all about the pink. Nice cross reference to boobs.
I'd go further south.
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cjstudent
Jan 5, 2004, 1:15 PM
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My red tri-cam that caught my 30 footer this weekend.
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bigbouda
Jan 7, 2004, 9:41 PM
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pinky tricamy
redy camalotty
oh yeah, the # 6 Curved Hex... I Luvs my Hexs
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petsfed
Jan 7, 2004, 10:13 PM
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I love the #5 camalot when its the smallest piece I place. Incidentally MD, what did you need the #5 for on Devil's Tower? The Leaning Pillar pitch has fixed pitons everywhere and the Durrance Crack proper looked like it would eat #4 camalots for breakfast, but not much bigger. And that's as big as it gets. Now Handjacker at Vedauwoo, if you don't like to slide cams next to you, will take 3 or 4 of those monstosities before you topout. And that's all you get. The bloody thing is too small for the first piece.
I like the #2 camalot as well. Saved my bacon a few times more than I like to think about.
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hexitup
Jan 8, 2004, 6:44 AM
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The #11 BD hex or #10 Metolius Curve Hex
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danielb
Jan 9, 2004, 12:53 PM
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Pink Tricam, I've got 2 of them!
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bbevans039
Jan 18, 2004, 1:59 PM
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green BD camalot, or any that fits jus perfect.. also BD Stoppers 3-7
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dcclimb
Jan 18, 2004, 2:40 PM
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Yellow alien. Like the #1 Camalot, it seems to fit everywhere!
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scubasnyder
Jan 18, 2004, 3:24 PM
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im a fan of BD micro cams now, they just work so well where i climb
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rokklym
Jan 18, 2004, 3:51 PM
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I think everyone agrees that tricams (especially the the pink one ) are one of the most versatile pieces of gear ever made. You can pretty much find a place for them on any route it seems. another favorite of mine is my old HB aluminum offset nut. deffinetly my most commonly used piece of gear.
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elvis
Jan 18, 2004, 4:29 PM
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My 24 Volt 1200rpm 440watt dewalt rotary Hammer drill :lol: :evil:
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bustinmins
Jan 18, 2004, 6:00 PM
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Green Alien - this little jewel seems to fit just perfectly in a spot that has claimed several #7 BD Stoppers. My seconds can't seem to remove sh*t and with no headlamp, sun going down, we've had to leave two there. Thus enter the little Green Alien - fits in perfectly and is paying for itself with each trip!
JD
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Jan 21, 2004, 4:15 PM
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I like my #9 WC Rockcentric. Even if I don't get to place it, the clanking sound pi$$es off my second.
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Jan 21, 2004, 4:57 PM
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the very first time i followed a multi pitch climb... i think it was the mummy in linsville gorge... a party to the right of us right of us left a cam on the last pitch. i traversed over and retrieved it, a #3 metolius quadcam, to be known forever after as the "mark 3". it stayed on my rack, climbing with me for 8 years, faded sling and all. friends would suggest getting it reslung... but i wont have any of it. it climbed with me untill the early spring of 2002.... when on a chilly spring assent of mt whitney, it was overcammed by my partner... and left on the last pitch. a fitting home... at least until some else may have cleaned it... and i hope it is keeping good company to this day. the mark 3
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coylec
Jan 22, 2004, 12:39 AM
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sharpender almost had it right -- my fav is not the last piece i placed, rather the one that catches me. If it stops a fall, it becomes my new favorite (currently a BD#7 nut)
coylec
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cologman
Jan 22, 2004, 1:23 AM
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Green and/or Yellow Alien :lol:
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my fav piece also changes with time. usually on a climb one piece stands out in my mind, either for being bomber, easy to place, whatever, and then that piece becomes the hero for the day. my current hero is the orange metolius TCU
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timstich
Jan 25, 2004, 2:17 AM
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I'm thinking that developing feelings for a favorite piece of gear on one's rack is a kind of fetishism. So what are you saying? Do you want to be more than friends with this piece?
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tarzan420
Jan 25, 2004, 2:34 AM
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My 4" bong.
Ok, I don't actually use it, but it's funny to have hanging on my rack.
Attn all gumbies: This is not a 'tobacco-use only' bong. I am in no way advocating the use of marijuana or pitons while climbing.
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betaben
Feb 2, 2004, 8:22 PM
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Gotta go Pink!!
But honorable mention goes to my Metoulious curved nuts!!
Ben
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NO ONE mentioned a leeper cam hook! Nothing like cruising 200' of eigth-inch crack on two hooks!!! OK... leave a black alien in once in a while...
-m
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Feb 3, 2004, 3:36 AM
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metolius # 2...the yello one.
I have 3 of these beauties on my rack and I think 2 of them are tcu`s.
my second comes in at a #3 ridgid stemmed old style friend, perfect size for the perfect hand crack.
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mmckinney
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i do love the #1 tcu (blue) and the #2 tcu..(yellow). there seems to always be a place for them on the rock.
yeah, my affection towards my gear edges on fetish
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scubasnyder
Feb 3, 2004, 3:46 AM
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Hmmm im starting to like my 2 new micro cams more and more
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hummm,
the blue metolius thing scares the crap out of me...but for some reason, I place the blue alien(the lobes on that thing are so worn that the wire is almost about to pop through) like its actualy gona hold me...
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hmm. i have so many favorite pieces but if i was to say my all time fav. piece would be a BD camelot it was my first cam and has been there for me more times then i can count.........
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