RACK ENVY

Did inventory yesterday for our upcoming trip. I have a few more cams on their way 

An entire thread devoted to the worship of materialism and accumulation of goods. Love this!

Climbing isn't about being small in nature, being humbled, or being reminded of our insignificance and the fleeting beauty of this world. It's about buying stuff and inflating your ego with a numerical scale to compare yourself to others

No Facewrote:

Climbing isn't about being small in nature, being humbled, or being reminded of our insignificance and the fleeting beauty of this world. It's about buying stuff and inflating your ego with a numerical scale to compare yourself to others

I'm glad someone finally realised this. 

No Facewrote:

An entire thread devoted to the worship of materialism and accumulation of goods. Love this!

Climbing isn't about being small in nature, being humbled, or being reminded of our insignificance and the fleeting beauty of this world. It's about buying stuff and inflating your ego with a numerical scale to compare yourself to others

Ahhh, but speaking from a philosophical standpoint, wasn’t  it Socrates who said “the unexamined rack isn’t worth having”?

Or something to that effect. 

No Facewrote:

 It's about buying stuff and inflating your ego with a numerical scale to compare yourself to others

i have more MP points than you

controversial opinion:

If you haven't placed it, it's not on your rack yet.

I'm looking at you shiny #7 & #8 camalots.

Khoiwrote:

Yes! This!

I'm the guy with the largest # of active and passive pro in this thread (page 17), and the strategy detailed by greggrylls is EXACTLY what I do.

I’ll give you active Khoi but I think I have you on passive. My partner asked me to give him a heads up if I ever decide to give up trad climbing so he can short sell aluminum.

And yes, everything but the six brand new tricams on the red binder have been placed on lead, including the tricam knot. 

Active rack is a triple+ Made up of BD (x1.5), ULMC, and WC. No pictures because active pro is boring. 

End “passive” aggressive post.

J.Frostwrote:

I’ll give you active Kohi but I think I have you on passive. My partner asked me to give him a heads up if I ever decide to give up trad climbing so he can short sell aluminum.

And yes, everything but the six brand new tricams on the red binder have been placed on lead, including the tricam knot. 

Active rack is a triple+ Made up of BD (x1.5), ULMC, and WC. No pictures because active pro is boring. 

End “passive” aggressive post.

If my partner showed up to the crag with that tricam knot on their rack I think I'd seriously reconsider whatever route we're climbing and my thoughts on the sport in general

J.Frostwrote:

I’ll give you active Kohi but I think I have you on passive. My partner asked me to give him a heads up if I ever decide to give up trad climbing so he can short sell aluminum.

And yes, everything but the six brand new tricams on the red binder have been placed on lead, including the tricam knot. 

Active rack is a triple+ Made up of BD (x1.5), ULMC, and WC. No pictures because active pro is boring. 

End “passive” aggressive post.

NIIICE!

Yup! You definitely have more passive pro than I do!

Btw,  does your phone also autocorrect my name to "kohi"?

Khoiwrote:

NIIICE!

Yup! You definitely have more passive pro than I do!

Btw,  does your phone also autocorrect my name to "kohi"?

Sorry about that Khoi. Autocorrect wore me down and it slipped through. I corrected it.

More stuff in the garage but this is the stuff that gets used most. 

Jan Tarculaswrote:

not sure if someone already posted this, but thanks to this forum I am now famous...I'm featured as #14

https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/suffer-rack-envy

When REI sold/transferred the site back (or however the loss/gave up the ownership to MP), I believe this article was taken down. Anyone have secrets of finding the old link in the dark webs of the internet? I would love too see this article again to show some friends.

No Facewrote:

An entire thread devoted to the worship of materialism and accumulation of goods. Love this!

Climbing isn't about being small in nature, being humbled, or being reminded of our insignificance and the fleeting beauty of this world. It's about buying stuff and inflating your ego with a numerical scale to compare yourself to others

Climbing isn't about being reminded we will all die at some point, not just you, everything you love will die. As a matter of fact all life will die. The sun will run out of fuel and the earth will be left an empty stone, until it's engulfed by the sun going super nova. 

Gloweringwrote:

Climbing isn't about being reminded we will all die at some point, not just you, everything you love will die. As a matter of fact all life will die. The sun will run out of fuel and the earth will be left an empty stone, until it's engulfed by the sun going super nova. 

Unfortunately our sun is not destined to go supernova. 

Jan Tarculaswrote:

When REI sold/transferred the site back (or however the loss/gave up the ownership to MP), I believe this article was taken down. Anyone have secrets of finding the old link in the dark webs of the internet? I would love too see this article again to show some friends.

Try archive.org 

Gloweringwrote:

Climbing isn't about being reminded we will all die at some point, not just you, everything you love will die. As a matter of fact all life will die. The sun will run out of fuel and the earth will be left an empty stone, until it's engulfed by the sun going super nova. 

This is up for debate. If you want to believe it is all meaningless and will all end, that's up to you! 

No Facewrote:

This is up for debate. If you want to believe it is all meaningless and will all end, that's up to you! 

I was being facetious responding to an earlier post about materialism  

I think you can differentiate between materialism for it’s own sake or to show off, vs.appreciating material items because they help you have fun or do something. I see a great rack as a means to great climbing.

I moved in with two good friends who also climb, collectively we have a pretty obscene amount of gear unless you’re doing anything wide, where we’re somewhat lacking. 

Tyler Mwrote:

I moved in with two good friends who also climb, collectively we have a pretty obscene amount of gear unless you’re doing anything wide, where we’re somewhat lacking. 

or cold...