worst gear ever
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Rob T wrote:Tricams…all of them.+1 |
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I had a pair of Resin Rose shoes, and they did suck. There was another Spanish shoe around the time that Fires became widely available that also sucked, at least as a climbing shoe: my wife ran in them once when she forgot her running shoes. |
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Link cams |
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Tri-nuts (Not to be mistaken for tri-cams which are great!) |
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I hate you all...Tricams 4 life!! |
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The BD Bod harness. I'm sure it was a huge improvement over swami belts, but sitting or falling in the BOD was like getting punched in the nuts. |
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The Forrest Titons, listed in that R&I article, were pretty bad. |
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TBlom wrote:The BD Bod harness. I'm sure it was a huge improvement over swami belts, but sitting or falling in the BOD was like getting punched in the nuts.If you're falling in one of those harnesses, you probably aren't using the correct tool for the job. The alpine bod is designed for ski mountaineering, at which is excels because you can easily put the harness on without taking off your skis/crampons/snowshoes or whatever. And all the heavy winter clothing should provide more than enough padding should you fall. I can't really think of any piece of gear that I own that is really shitty. Honestly the worst piece of gear I've ever been handed was a trango flexcam. They may work great for splitters at the creek but once the crack starts getting irregular or funky, which is tends to do around here, they're shitty to use. |
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Wild Country Brakeman. |
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The "Nipple". So you can send with rad ass tunes at your disposal... |
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X4s.. All of them. Would trade them for aliens any day of the week. But I think the figure 8 has left the gear bin twice in the past four years, so that gets my vote. |
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squid, wc super rocks? and dare i say a big bro. |
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Link cams. |
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Fixe aliens |
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Climbers... |
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The Edelrid adjustable belay station? Total unitasker, can't be any easier than than tying off a sling... |
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Ryan7crew wrote: +1Bought Forest tri cams and my first ice axe at Forest Mountaineering in Denver. Made a couple duplicates too. They suck. |
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eli poss wrote:Fixe aliensHi, we love aliens in NM. I'll buy your old ones. 575.740.2385 text me. |
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Stoppers made by Clod which fit absolutely nowhere |