What's on your Rack??

Metamorphic rock will do it to you.

Varies significantly depending on where I am climbing. When hanging climbing near home this is the rack I take to Eldo, but if I know the climb often pare it down from this gear or add appropriate extra C4s:

-assortment of nuts, total amounts to more than 2 sets...
-one set of BD #3 to #11,
-one set of DMM offsets,
-a few mid size misc nuts,
-one set of DMM peanuts,
-assorted brassies/HB offsets
-0.5, 1 and 1.5 tricams

All racked on three biners.

-Small cams: Totem basics blue through red and/or Metolius TCUs 00-3. Rack these sets together on single biner/set.

C4 0.4-3, doubles 0.75,1,2. Add others for specific climbs. C4s racked on CAMP photon color coded biners

EDIT: I got more trad runners, eliminated the QDs for trad climbing, so 15 trad runners, 2 of them with light locker on rope end., plus a couple double runners over the shoulder with lockers.

a couple extra lockers

Big belay biner, DMM pivot, belay gloves

third hand (currently sterling hollowblock)

Nut tool

multi pitch: wind/rain shell and sometimes cordellete with locker.

Descent shoes for walk offs.

Your rack is pretty similar to mine (albeit bigger). How well does it work for you to keep the totems on 1 cam? Right now I have 1 per biner and clip 'em together...nice for anchors and racking but does take up a lot of space.

Re: bigger rack, I don't carry all of it all the time. It's what I pack in my pack for an Eldo day.

4 or 5 small cams on 1 biner works just fine for me.

mountainhick wrote: 4 or 5 small cams on 1 biner works just fine for me.

if you're racking multiple cams to one biner are you always putting a sling on them?

Brian L. wrote: if you're racking multiple cams to one biner are you always putting a sling on them?

almost always unless I am in splitterville. It is a rare placement that a small cam won't move/walk without extending, and small cams tend to get stuck or walk out of placements easier than larger cams. I want my placements to stay where I put them even when the rope goes tight through the line of pro

Or a QuickDraw.

Dragon cams 1-5 (double #5) on camp nano22
Totem cams blue-red on camp nano22
Set of BD stopper 4-13 (doubled medium sizes with wallnuts)
Double set of tricam Evo .5-1.5
10 alpine draws with camp nano 22s
Two double length nylon slings
1 each 7mm and 6mm cordelette
120mm BD dynex sling
Hollowblock
ATC guide
And a couple extra BD lockers and no lockers
I have a set of torque nuts but only take them if I'm feeling loud.

Works for the Gunks and MD/PA areas

Virtually every time:
BD C4 .3-2 On oz biners
BD stopper 4-13 split between two biners
DMM offset stopper set
Nut tool
Belay/rap gizmo on a biner
4 lockers
some Yosemite draws

More often than not I'll add:
BD C4 #3
Tricam evo set
BD x4 .1 & .2

Sometimes I'll add:
Doubles on cams .5-2 (omega pacific link cams)
Cams #4 or bigger

Rarely but it happens:
Triples on .5-2 (C4s or UL C4s)
Doubles or triples on select other size cams (mix of C3, C4, X4)
Doubles of nuts (frost sentinels)
Screamers

Things that are basically wasting my closet space:
Hexes
Metolious TCUs
Offset X4s
Climb Tech Tech Nuts (Large slider nuts)

Things I very rarely need but I like to take for funsies somtimes:
Slider nuts (Lowe Balls in the small sizes)
Big tricams

JK- wrote:Yosemite draws

That's a new one for me. I assume this is what you call an alpine draw (trad draw to some)?

I first learned about alpine draws from someone who called them slowdraws. I've used this term ever since, but apparently no one else uses it. Is "slowdraw" a term anyone else has heard or uses?

If I don't know what I'll need this is generally what I take

Note that the supercam will be replaced with an orange totem as soon as it arrives and will join the gear in the 2nd photo. I don't dislike the supercam (although some of my partners do), I just like the orange totem better.

If I have an idea of what I'll need I may subtract stuff and/or add some of this

Brian L. wrote: That's a new one for me. I assume this is what you call an alpine draw (trad draw to some)?

Same thing.

mountainhick wrote: 4 or 5 small cams on 1 biner works just fine for me.

I've only climbed with one person who does this. I gotta say, it's off-putting.

Camalots for me in the .5"-6" sizes, mostly.

Sometimes I'll take the green and yellow link cams out for a stroll. Confidence level is not as much as for the BD pieces, but I've rocked these numbers for years.

There's the forged stem friend, of course. That 3.5" size, a nice prelude to some gentle fist fucking.

Finger-size cams range from C3 to Fixe Lites, including some mastercams, regular fixe aliens, DMM, mastercam, CCH alien... a real franken-rack of fingers, so perhaps Johnny Derp as Edward Camhands could appreciate the mish mas of lobes.

I just added DMM pee nuts to the mix. Daddy likes.

The offset aluminum DMM/HB Copy for my mainstay of stoppers works great.

Some brass offsets to fit the most slim of pickings about does her.

Just looked in my tote and:

BD C4 .3-4 doubles 1-3
WC New Friends .5-4
Totems black-red
BD X4 doubles .1 .2-.75
Aliens black-red
TCUs 00-4

BD nuts 4-13
DMM offsets

Hooks. Duct Tape. Double sided tape for tricky hook/tape placements. Deck screws for soft rock. Quicklinks for racking. Cable-knit sweater for padding the hip belays. Polyester boat rope.

Used on alpine dirt.

Bill Kirby wrote:Just looked in my tote and: BD C4 .3-4 doubles 1-3 WC New Friends .5-4 Totems black-red BD X4 doubles .1 .2-.75 Aliens black-red TCUs 00-4 BD nuts 4-13 DMM offsets

Jeez, how do you climb with all that weight? That's Luke a triple set of cams

eli poss wrote: Jeez, how do you climb with all that weight? That's Luke a triple set of cams

I ask myself that everytime I rack up! Er, wait, you talking bout my gear?

eli poss wrote: Jeez, how do you climb with all that weight? That's Luke a triple set of cams

Who's Luke? I thought it might mean "like" but the L was capitalized. Maybe the joys of autocorrect?

FrankPS wrote: Who's Luke? I thought it might mean "like" but the L was capitalized. Maybe the joys of autocorrect?

damn auto carrot...