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sungam
Jan 14, 2010, 3:27 PM
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So I was sitting around in Geometry and Convergance as Leo rambled on about the finer implications (?) of the dot product, and thought "shit, we should make a f*cking huge gear list that has absolutely everything you could possibly need on a climbing trip".
Obviously you won't need everything on the list, but it would be nice to have a full list of things to consider.
Hell you could print it off and just cross out the shit you won't need.
I dunno about other people, but I'm always forgetting something - spare batteries, a rag or piece of carpet when bouldering, (and on one embarrasing occasion - fuel for my stove  ), this would be a fun tool to go through, I guess. I figured I'd break it down into sections - bouldering, sport, trad, alpine, day trip, camping, aid, ice, and misc (first aid, beer etc.)
Funny entries not only welcome but necessary.
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sungam
Jan 14, 2010, 3:38 PM
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First off, first aid - what are the necessities?
First Aid
-disinfectant wipes
-Neosporin/Savlon
-super glue
-zinc oxide tape
-Duct tape
-gauze
-Codeine/Ibuprofine mix
-knife (/with scissors)
-Witch hazel/Methylated Spirits.
-Insect repellent
-Sunblock
-Chapstick with sunblock
Bouldering:
-Shoes
-Project shoes
-Sending shoes
-Highball shoes
-Lowball shoes
-Whatever shoes Sharma wore in the last photo shoot
-Bouldering mat
-Highball mat
-Lowball mat
-Photogenic mat (opposite your shirt colour to make you "pop" in those sicky gnar gnar photos)
-Rag for shoes
-Piece of carpet for shoes
-Boar hair brush
-Stiff brush
-Soft brush
-Little brush
-Dish brush
-Extend-o brush
-Wire brush (just kidding!)
-Blowtorch (also kidding!)
-Beanie hat
-Hand warmers
-Big wooly gloves
-Camera/video camera (gotta catch those sends!)
-iPhone with 8a.nu app
-Chalk bag
-Chalk bucket
-Liquid chalk
-Snacks
-Adoring skimpily-clad fans
-Shades
-Hand salve
-Tape
-PBR
-Down Jacket
-Fleece
-Guidebook
-Map to crag
Sport Climbing
-As above
-Stick clip
-List of excuses for having stick clip
-Draws
-Long draws
-Anchor draws (?)
-Projecting rope
-Sending rope
-Harness
-ATC
-Grigri
-Cinch
-Wind shirt/fleece
-Boom box
-Helmet
Deep Water Solo
-As for Bouldering
-Change of cloaths x2
-Spare shoes x2
-LOTS of chalk
-Milk carton chalk bags
-Towelx10
-BBQing equipment
-Floatation device
-Goggles/Snorkel (if new routing in dirty water, to check landings)
-Stove (cup-a-soup, hot choc, bullion)
Trad
-As for Sport
-Nuts
-Cams
-Tricams
-Hexes
-Ballnuts
-Nut tool
-Draws
-Long draws/extend-o's
-Slings
-Bail 'biners
-Helmet
-Beanie that can fit under helmet
-Windshirt
-Spare webbing
-Knife
Aid
-As for Trad
-Gloves
-Tape
-Beaners
-RURPs
-Bugaboos
-Knifeblads
-Lost Arrows
-Angles
-Baby angles
-Pre-cut angles
-Hacksaw
-Peckers
-Beaks
-Hammer
-Hand drill
-Blowtube/brush
-Bolts
-Hangers
-Bolt-cam/removable bolt
-Adhesive backed starbolt stickers*
-Funkness wire
-Hooks
-Leeper hooks/cam hooks
-Copperheads
-Rivet Hangers
-Offset nuts
-Nuts
-Cams
-Ballsnuts
-Offset cams
-Etriers/Ladders
-Daisies
-Ascenders
-Goggles (for Fishers)
-Shoulderpads (for Canadian Chossies)
-Hualbag
-Haul line
-Hauling rig of choice
-Food
-Water
Overnight
-Spork
Big Wall
-As for aid
-As for overnight
-second haulbag
-Poop tube
-Poop bags
-Lime/poop powder
-Those fancy auto-decomp poop bags
-Portaledge
-Fly
-Thermarest
-Synthetic bag
-Water
-Water
Ice
-Tools
-Crampons
-File
-I'm-backin'-off threader
-22 screw for threads
-Rack of screws
-Warthogs
-Bulldogs/spectres
-Pins
-Nuts
-Tricams
-Extnd-o draws
-Bail biners
-Cord
-Knife
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Alpine Rock
Alpine
-Cat-o-9-tails
High Alpine/Mountaineering
-Sherpa
* Make your 1/2 inchers look sketch in just two easy steps! Peel off the adhesive's cover, then slap the starbolt sticker over the head of your bolt! You'll have non-locals shitting bricks in no time!
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Lazlo
Jan 14, 2010, 3:42 PM
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I inevitably forget something on every single trip. It's just a matter of 'what' it is.
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Lazlo
Jan 14, 2010, 3:42 PM
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Good thread idea btw.
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Jan 14, 2010, 3:47 PM
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I am pretty sure a boulderer would want a crash pad on that list... considering the number of shoes, I'd say a least 3 crash pads, from different manufacturers, so you can have all the logos in the picture for sponsors.
On a serious note though, I know people who have a checklist for their camping/cimbing trips, printed on a card and laminated. They check off things on it with a marker for each trip, and then wipe it off and start over for the next trip.
It seems like a great idea. But a bit on the OCD side for my taste.
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Lazlo
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First Aid
Finger bandaids
athletic tape
neosporin
mole skin
duct tape
ibprophin
alcohol wipes
gauze
small knife with scissors
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dolphja
Jan 14, 2010, 3:52 PM
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bouldering-
guidebook
map to crag
shoes,
chalk bag,
tape
chalk pot,
pot  ,
beer
plastic bag for used beer cans
crash pad
brush in calkbag brush holder,
bouldering brushes
stick clip to attach said bouldering brushes for upper holds
more beer
camera for embarrassing pictures
lighter for pot 
handwarmers to put into said chalk bag to make hands warm during cold bouldering
2 silver coins to put on your eyes just in case you have to pay the ferryman if you don't survive and they have to bury you from falling from a lowball problem
food (ie. snackbars, canned soup, partner that fell from said lowball)
P38 can opener for canned food, (weight saver for those long lowball ascents)
more beer
spotter (who isn't paying attention because he's too busy drinking beer and smoking your pot)
headlamp for midnight bouldering
cell phone to call for help because you fell from lowball
compass just in case you are too drunk to remember how you got to said crag
overnight bivy because you are too drunk or stoned to want to return to camp or car
more beer 
excuse (very important) just in case you got too drunk or stoned at said crag and your significant other was wondering where the hell you have been all night  
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granite_grrl
Jan 14, 2010, 3:53 PM
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lena_chita wrote: On a serious note though, I know people who have a checklist for their camping/cimbing trips, printed on a card and laminated. They check off things on it with a marker for each trip, and then wipe it off and start over for the next trip.
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dolphja
Jan 14, 2010, 3:55 PM
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Lazlo wrote: Good thread idea btw.
+1
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lena_chita
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granite_grrl wrote: lena_chita wrote: On a serious note though, I know people who have a checklist for their camping/cimbing trips, printed on a card and laminated. They check off things on it with a marker for each trip, and then wipe it off and start over for the next trip. When we first started ice climbing we had a list if we were going away for a weekend. When something is that new it's easy to overlook something.
True. I used to always forget something when I first started. It was usually minor and I managed without it (e.g. forgetting salt for cooking, or forgetting a headlamp, or a can opener), but it was inconvenient or uncomfortable.
Now i have a really good system. All my camping and climbing gear is consolidated in one closet. And all cooking stuff is in one bin. All i have to do is empty the shelves of the closet, and I have everything.
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sungam
Jan 14, 2010, 4:04 PM
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Lazlo wrote: First Aid Finger bandaids athletic tape neosporin mole skin duct tape ibprophin alcohol wipes gauze small knife with scissors
Also, do you prefer plasters over just gauze and tape?
Moleskins are the blister plasters, right?
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sungam
Jan 14, 2010, 4:05 PM
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lena_chita wrote: I am pretty sure a boulderer would want a crash pad on that list... considering the number of shoes, I'd say a least 3 crash pads, from different manufacturers, so you can have all the logos in the picture for sponsors. On a serious note though, I know people who have a checklist for their camping/cimbing trips, printed on a card and laminated. They check off things on it with a marker for each trip, and then wipe it off and start over for the next trip. It seems like a great idea. But a bit on the OCD side for my taste.
Pad is on the list. I'll add some more, just for good taste.
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Jan 14, 2010, 4:09 PM
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: First Aid Finger bandaids athletic tape neosporin mole skin duct tape ibprophin alcohol wipes gauze small knife with scissorsI like these. What's neosporin? Also, do you prefer plasters over just gauze and tape? Moleskins are the blister plasters, right?
Neosporin is a cream/gel to reduce chance of infection. I believe your people just use single malt.
Mole skin and blister plasters are basically the same thing
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sungam
Jan 14, 2010, 4:13 PM
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brownie710 wrote: sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: First Aid Finger bandaids athletic tape neosporin mole skin duct tape ibprophin alcohol wipes gauze small knife with scissorsI like these. What's neosporin? Also, do you prefer plasters over just gauze and tape? Moleskins are the blister plasters, right? Neosporin is a cream/gel to reduce chance of infection. I believe your people just use single malt. Mole skin and blister plasters are basically the same thing
Moleskins make it on, I guess, even though I personally think they are a waste of time. Witch hazel + tape is the way foreward.
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bigjonnyc
Jan 14, 2010, 4:46 PM
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Savlon is an antiseptic, whereas Neosporin is an antibiotic.
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Lazlo
Jan 14, 2010, 5:12 PM
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sungam wrote: Lazlo wrote: First Aid Finger bandaids athletic tape neosporin mole skin duct tape ibprophin alcohol wipes gauze small knife with scissorsI like these. What's neosporin? Also, do you prefer plasters over just gauze and tape? Moleskins are the blister plasters, right?
Neosporin is an american brand aniseptic. it's a gel in a small tube. also has minor local pain medication in it.
mole skin is for blisters, yes. I like putting the moleskin on, then duct tape.
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Lazlo
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I'm too lazy to scroll when I'm using my phone. Don't hate me, Bro! 
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First Aid:
SAM Splint
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Jan 14, 2010, 5:45 PM
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sungam wrote: What are the necessities? Sport Climbing -As above -Stick clip - List of excuses for having stick clip -Draws -Long draws - Anchor draws (?) -Projecting rope -Sending rope -Harness - ATC -Grigri - Cinch -Wind shirt/fleece -Boom box
Fixed that for you. (Note: Those who climb 5.hard may optionally unstrike the "sending rope")
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sungam wrote: So I was sitting around in Geometry and Convergance as Leo rambled on about the finer implications (?) of the dot product, and thought "shit, we should make a f*cking huge gear list that has absolutely everything you could possibly need on a climbing trip".
All this gear is all well and good but it is no substitute for a bit of skill. Though not directly climbing related, a solid understanding of the dot product and related bits of vector math has gotten me through a lot of sticky situations and honestly ranks amongst the best things I took away from my collage years.
I remember one sophomoric road trip to jtree and bishop where the gear list included a motorcycle helmet, a skate board, a toboggan, a blow up doll and a copy of Foland's "Advanced Calculus." The novelty of the first several items wore off but the book provided no end of rest day entertainment.
Misc
Group Appropriate Reading Material
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Jan 14, 2010, 6:28 PM
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MS1 wrote: sungam wrote: What are the necessities? Sport Climbing -As above -Stick clip - List of excuses for having stick clip -Draws -Long draws - Anchor draws (?) -Projecting rope -Sending rope -Harness -ATC - Grigri - Cinch -Wind shirt/fleece -Boom box Fixed that for you. (Note: Those who climb 5.hard may optionally unstrike the "sending rope")
Here fixed that for you.
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Lazlo
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adatesman wrote: Witch hazel? I'm assuming this is one of those bonnet/hood, boot/trunk, spanner/wrench translation things as I can't see any reason to pack a tree. One all-purpose thing I don't see on the list- TP. Not only good as intended, also good for general cleanup, improvised bandages, kindling for the fire, etc.
Hmm. Thread idea...different 'packable' fire starter ideas.
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Jan 14, 2010, 6:56 PM
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Lazlo wrote: adatesman wrote: Witch hazel? I'm assuming this is one of those bonnet/hood, boot/trunk, spanner/wrench translation things as I can't see any reason to pack a tree. One all-purpose thing I don't see on the list- TP. Not only good as intended, also good for general cleanup, improvised bandages, kindling for the fire, etc. Hmm. Thread idea...different 'packable' fire starter ideas. 
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adatesman wrote: Witch hazel? I'm assuming this is one of those bonnet/hood, boot/trunk, spanner/wrench translation things as I can't see any reason to pack a tree. One all-purpose thing I don't see on the list- TP. Not only good as intended, also good for general cleanup, improvised bandages, kindling for the fire, etc.
Witch Hazel is a astringent or something along those lines.
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