just curious... if so, which route?

I have. Just once. It was on Ragged Edges.

Yes, Sport Wanker Extraordinaire in the Calico Hills, Las Vegas.

Basically just once..The Classic, Granite Mountain, Prescott, AZ

not to hijack but what about the #5?

I picked one up but I'm debating on how useful it will be for me. It seems like Red Rocks always has wider stuff? Maybe I'll hold onto it for this season in Red rocks...

Not a 6, just paid for one. Have used a 5 though, on some unknown thing up by Purgatory Peak, near Gerlach, Nevada. 4.5 wouldn't do it. Of course, it probably wouldn't rate as a 5.6 route if it got rated, so YMMV.

Used a no5 camalot on this. Submitted By: johnnyrig on Aug 21, 2012

Yes. Go to Indian Creek and try some offwidths. Or Cashmere Crack in Little Cottonwood.

For the #5: maybe not a necessary placement, but I have found places at the Gunks where I've put it just to save the weight! (Don't ask why I hauled that sorry sucker up in the first place.)

#5 is nice on Owl Rock in Arches NP. #6 is still shiny and collecting dust in the gear closet.

Primrose dihedral, moses

I used one on Community Pillar in Red Rocks. I used one on Sheila in Pine Creek Canyon (Bishop area). I think I've used it a couple other times but can't remember specifics.

I cant remember the route, but I used two #5's, one #4, and one #6 on some route in josh.

I used a #6, but only once in self defense.

My rope gun had to borrow one so we could do Great White Book when the line on South Crack was too long last year.

Not our pic:

Great White Book, Tuolumne. Submitted By: Michael Schneiter on May 8, 2009

Wow, I wasn't aware that people bought sixes and didn't use them. Want to send surplus cams my way? Free gear thread anyone?

My triple 5s and 6s are scratched to hell, the old 4s and 5s weigh too much and still get use, the bros have followed my up a few things, mainly as belay anchor pieces (Bengal, Burlesque, other routes that start with "B").

I've also fallen on my Chouinard Tube Chocks, 9-11 hexes, and a girth-hitched slung bong (solid, somehow).

I think I'm officially a minority now. I haven't even climbed a thousandth of the offwidths I want to, yet.

You guys really don't use your cams? Weird...

Quite a few... But Moby Dick Ahab was one of the most notable. Its hard to call it an onsight when you spend over an hour squirming up 150ft but there it is none the less.

That six was tipped out as hell though

10b flaring squeeze hell. Submitted By: Jim Reynolds on Aug 22, 2012

Weird question. Kind of like "anybody ever buy Climbing shoes and actually use them".

can't tell you how many times. In eldo, steamboat, moab, ic, vedauwoo.

Yep many times at the Voo. Love that size!!!!

Our climbing club has a communal #6 that's passed on every year as a volunteer award. My mentor received the honor last year (the cam's 2nd time out). Part of the deal is that the cam must be placed on a climb at the Gunks and photographic evidence must be provided to the club.

She had me bring it up Baby. Stupid cam is bigger than my head - and it's too big for that crack!!

She has:

All the time in the desert, and multiple times on a FA called Sidewinder in the Fisher Towers, including one section where you do very insecure climbing past a tipped out #6 while trying not to kick it out.

Paul

many times, but hopefully years of counseling and thousands of dollars in co-pays and xanax will cure that problem....

what? that is like saying has the sun come up today! all the time "fat crack" foe life!!!!1

Edited to add location for photos. First two are Championship Wrestling in Jtree, third is Binge and Purge, IC.

The start... Submitted By: Jamie Henrichsen on Aug 22, 2012

Runout on a tipped six Submitted By: Jamie Henrichsen on Aug 22, 2012

Bring the six or there will be trouble. Submitted By: Jamie Henrichsen on Aug 22, 2012

On the way to the Voo as we speak. I hope to place my #6s a lot!!!

I guess I don't go out of my way to seek OW so I haven't used one yet. Ha!

(Oh for those wondering... I was asking cause I don't have a #6 and the topic came up in discussion, where would I ever use one? (of the ones I want to do... easy-moderates, mostly in California and particularly Yosemite) Looked at even Steck-Salathe and it doesn't need one. I had thought about doing Ragged Edges, but I do have a #5)

Thanks for the all the replies. Greatly appreciated.