For Sport climbers, maybe. Those and slippers so that they don't have to remember how to tie their shoes.

But if you've ever had to put on your harness with your crampons or skis on or add rain pants while tied in, you'll discover the 'issue' with autolocking harnesses.

There's no shortage of trad out there where you don't need crampons, skis or rain pants, hardman. If you're doing special typhoon mountaineering, you might need some specialized gear for that.

And now you're bagging on slippers? THose are the best shoes to use at my favorite sport-trad area, the creek.

And the grigri is great for trad too.

Ah yes, the world according to caughtinside...

Yep. I actually enjoy your posts in a twisted way there cam. Because you consistently say amazingly dumb shit.

Its called personal preference.

Oh, I see... but when Klown says it it's "the world according to caughtinside"?
I'm not hating on you or anything, just saying.

Ouch is right!

I dunno though... I kinda like it for the local TR area. Sling 3 trees, clip the AE and huck it over the edge (usually with the Omega D lockers mentioned above at the PP). The auto-adjusting makes it easy to just flip it over/around something to get on another route without re-rigging, which is nice given how short the cliff is.

Multi colored spandex pants.

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I actually dont have something least favorite, as in "i really hate that crap", but i would say the camp bolo nuts rank rather high in that regard.
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Long ago i thought that would be a good idea, for those sport routes where you probably need a nut or two, so you dont have to buy/ carry a whole set.
Turns out if you need two nuts, the second one you need is always the most important one, and the one thats hanging on the first nut.
also a pain to rack, and you always need the nut on the other side of the side you grabbed it first.

I think if i ever need some more nuts, i simply cut away one nut, to have a normal one.

qwert

I actually enjoy the autolocking harness simply because it is easier to disassemble/reassemble when you need to put it on over bulky gear or if you need to put pants on while wearing it.

Backt to topic:

I actually dont have something least favorite, as in "i really hate that crap", but i would say the camp bolo nuts rank rather high in that regard.

Long ago i thought that would be a good idea, for those sport routes where you probably need a nut or two, so you dont have to buy/ carry a whole set.
Turns out if you need two nuts, the second one you need is always the most important one, and the one thats hanging on the first nut.
also a pain to rack, and you always need the nut on the other side of the side you grabbed it first.

I think if i ever need some more nuts, i simply cut away one nut, to have a normal one.

qwert

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Boreal Diablos were pretty bad too. Only shoe I've ever seen that hurt but was waaay too big.

I'm surprised by the sheer ridiculousness of that post.
So let's look at the situation. How many link cams have failed? 1. It was in a shitty pod and it blew from the torque. Okay, so they have to load in the direction of pull, just like most cams. So it was used in a situation the manufacturer tells you not to.
Now the aliens failed due to production failure. They broke below their rated strength on numerous occasions while being used exactly how the manufacturer said they should.
So we have one case of failure in a flared pod or numerous failures in perfect placements. Then let's look at how the companies handled it when there were defects. Yellow link has defects it's all over the net, all in the shops etc. and they replaced them for free. Aliens break and CCH ignored it and claimed they were tensile tested.

So basically I'm going gunna go ahead and assume there's something I missed (fully possible) or that you haven't been paying attention.

You did miss something. There have been two Link Cam failures, I'm assuming you know about the one at Jtree (Left Ski Track), there was also one at Smith. Both total link coupling failure due to placements in constrained pods as you mention. OP's handling of both events was ok (I think the cams should be recalled) but they now advise that links not be used in situations where their rotation is constrained.

The thing is, the majority of falls I have taken on cams have been on placements in some kind of pod, pin scar or constraining slot. This kind of placement is quite common on thin routes on granite. I can think of lots of spots at my local crags where the only piece of gear protecting a mandatory runout is a link sized cam you wiggle into a placement ... other cams are beyond bomber in this situation (a .75 camalot in pod feels like a bolt to me), links break.

I think the only reason more links haven't broken and people haven't died is that most people leading 5.11 are too smart to trust their lives to such a piece of junk. I actually can't think of anyone who leads 5.11 regularly and has them on their rack.

Aliens on the other hand still get used, they crop up in BD adds and I've met climbers sponsored by other companies that keep a few hidden away. There is no denying that CCH has the worst quality control in the history of climbing gear but their design is brilliant, the OP design is flawed.

I'm not actually buying any new aliens but if you offered me a rack of free ones I'd test the hell out of em and climb on ones whose heads were still on.

The 12 mm mammut supersafe sold as a 10.2...I got suckered into getting one of these thinking it was the safe thing to do... what a beast to climb on.