What was the most regrettable climbing related impulse thing you have purchased?

Rock Exotica Bi Wire. Its a sick idea, but the thing is huge and weights as much as 3 biners.

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Tony B wrote:At some point someone is going to get around to mentioning an engagement ring...

Not this guy...getting hitched in a week!! (For the first time:)

Phil Lauffen wrote: Every week or so I think about buying more from dirtbag deals. Its an addiction. I get made fun of. I guess I don't regret it tho....

Me too...shoe addict. Probably 6pr that I use regularly.

Giant sized cams I'm out 100 bucks for and never placed. Endless harnesses trying to find the 'perfect fit'. About 40 too many quickdraws.

I've never regretted buying Tricams because usually friends just give them away to me or I find them. I bought a pair of Boreal Stingers once thinking they would improve my footwork. Uh, yeah. They were so painful I sold them after wearing them a few times. I never use the hexes I bought when I first got into climbing. Why bother futzing with that jive when you have double cams?

Ditto on the bigass hard shell. I have one that is full of pit zippers, liner, and all sorts of junk. It's so stiff and bulky I rarely wear it anywhere unless I expect you know, 65 mph sustained winds. Might come in handy for being stuck out somewhere crappy, but I generally avoid that situation.

Woodchuck ATC wrote:Giant sized cams I'm out 100 bucks for and never placed. Endless harnesses trying to find the 'perfect fit'. About 40 too many quickdraws.

What giant cam are we talking about here? Might take that one off your hands.

Petzl Freino locking biner... what an overpriced and unnecessary piece of gear!

As for the link cams... love them!

Man-pris.

Chris Duca wrote:Man-pris.

As well you should, sir.

Me?
Link Cams....liked 'em fine. Used 'em. Fell on 'em. Just not necessary and a waste of beer money in the end.

A close second....any shoes other than Mythos. They just do everything I need them to.

Third....multiloop gear sling. Fuggin' stupid.

I've climbed with the multi-loop gear slings. Not going out to buy one, but didn't hate them.

Tony B wrote:At some point someone is going to get around to mentioning an engagement ring...

Trying hard to refrain from inappropriate comments regarding said gear ...

Peter Pitocchi wrote:Hexes, Metolius "Safety Harness," GriGri, jury is out on tricams, wide nylon slings, gear slings, multiple pairs of uncomfortable (too tight) shoes. Too lazy to ebay anyone know where to donate to good cause?

Hey man! Ha, Were friends right!!?

The small trango flex cams. Prodealed them on a special as a young gumby working at REI thinking that trangos sizez #1,2,3 were equivlent to BD... Been in the closet for 8 years now.

So who is going to admit to buying a set of Kong Frogs or a whole rack of DMM revolvers or Mad Rock Trigger wires?

CiloGear WorkSack - got trashed on a single alpine rock excursion

My mom got me these for Christmas one year: metoliusclimbing.com/prusik…

I didn't have the heart to tell her that that's about $2.00 worth of cord and 3 min. of effort. I was glad that she was willing to support my climbing habit though! And, I've actually brought them along a few times out climbing

Damn this thread! I was reading this.. thought I'd stop by Pagan on my lunch break, chum it up with the bro's... walked out with a Pink Pagan t-shirt...

I bought the PMI lumi-line cordelette because... well it glows in the dark.

Also, I bought this just because it was 70% off, never used it:

bwalt822 wrote:So who is going to admit to buying a set of Kong Frogs or a whole rack of DMM revolvers or Mad Rock Trigger wires?

Oh, man. The Kong Frog. Why didn't they catch on??!!! I know someone with a whole bunch of Revolvers. Eh, if you can afford them they are kind of cool. I haven't seen the Mad Rock Trigger wires.

Anyone bought one of those stupid, single-slot BD ATCs?

Ushba titanium ascenders. Man those things sucked.

All you tricam and grigri haters can send me your unwanted items.