Worst Rack Possible

rogerbenton wrote:

Rich Romano’s rack

LEAVE RICH ALONE!!! 

P.S this made me burst out laughing

Jason Pirolo wrote:

 You may not like it, but the fact remains that this is the optimal rack for NIAD parties

This seems like a LOT of acid for just one day

Michael Larson wrote:

This is a question I’ll occasionally probe with friends, but I’m curious to see what the wider MP population has to say. We see all the reviews and forum posts about best cams, nuts, whatever and there seems to be an increasing focus on the “best” gear now that there are so many options.

My question is this: if money and availability wasn’t a concern, what’s the worst fully-functional rack you could build? Cams, nuts, draws, biners, however detailed you wanna go. Maybe it’s pieces of gear that are notoriously unreliable. Maybe it’s straight sided nuts. Maybe it’s the single-axel Z4s. Just a standard kit regardless of where it would be used. And it can’t be the random, one-off stuff that comes out of some janky, home-build setup; only pieces of gear that are or were commercially available. Think standard rack. I’ll let you define “worst”. Go

You can always make knots out of slings or used T-shirts that you find in the trash. You can take up sticks from the forest to use as nuts or big Bros. You can use Rocks that you find at the base of the crag themselves as passive pro tied to twine 

. This has probably been done for millennia and the hemp ropes or animal hair that they used threaded with care and sinew have probably disintegrated and literally everything that Chris Sharma has done was probably done long before by some fucking caveman.

to me, this honestly sounds like the best Rack ever though