Crash Pad Suggestions

I have two mad pads and one triple mad pad, I have been very pleased with the performance and durability. I make about seven-ten extended weekend bouldering trips a year and use them under my home wall and a friends home wall. I know price was not your primary mover, but foam for the buck you just can't beat Mad Rock. My two cents.

MattH wrote:Anyone know of a way to get the giant Edelrid Crux pad in the US? I know Scarpa used to be a distributor and you could buy directly off their site but that seems to have stopped and the only places I can find are in Europe/Australia. I've used one and not been very impressed by the foam durability but definitely liked the form factor. As far as other brands go, Asana has the best features but bad foam, Organic has the best foam and 2nd best features (making them both the best overall and best value), BD/Metolius have very mediocre foam/features and aren't as cheap as organic, and I think Mad Rock's generic pads have good foam but have by far the worst features. The R7 is heavy as hell but could be good as a 1st line of defense on terrible talus slopes. I'd go Organic.

Bad foam? WTF does that mean? When I put my SuperHighBall down among the Organic MadRok & other pads it puts them all to shame. Everyone wants that pad under them...

mancub wrote:NickA I've got a brand new organic big pad 5" that I'm looking to sell (bought a rope and the pad went into storage). Where are you located? I don't really want to ship. I'm in Seattle. Jacob

Boulder, CO

NickA wrote: Boulder, CO

Not that you can figure out the durability of a pad by looking at it, but Neptune does carry Organic & Asana pads. (and not to sound like a salesperson again) Kinetik is local, you can ask for Galen at BRC & I'm sure he'd be happy to show you the pads. Revolution is local too, but I'm pretty sure they've sold/liquidated all their remaining pads.

Honestly, you'd get much better feedbacks from the locals than on MP.com.

Sorry NickA
I'm gonna stick to a local sale.
Hope you get a sweet pad. FWIW, I've fallen on Organic and Mad Rocks and there is no comparison. Organic is the clear winner.
Though, if you have a truck with 6ft bed, the mad rock 3 piece/double hinged pad fits perfectly between wheel wells and lengthwise too.

Thanks for the help everyone!