What useless gear did you by?

a big BRO broski
sketchy shit unless the placements perfect

tbh though I didn't buy it, I had a credit at a store that wouldn't refund, and they gave me a big bro instead

Brad Johnson wrote:MegaJul - 240 Sling - #4 cam

Everyone's #4s! You can send them to me! 

A set of "Rock and Rollers" but is now a collectors item, well sort of.
Was given Soloist that I've never used, a friend broke his hip when he used it for a Tyrolean: clipping it in upside down.

Aleks Zebastian wrote: climbing friend,

most useless: PAS, deadly ATC (or other similar non braking assisted device of tube-tacular style), hexes (so big so shiny so loud so cheap! they did remind me when i was noob ...snip 

climbing fiend,

I believe you need a #11 or 10 hex on mixed route behind Zowie in RMNP, I know, I took the next smaller size which didn't fit in the "pinch" and ended up with a long runout off the belay. Hexes are occasionally useful, in this case fitting the holes instead of the side walls because the placement was a pinch, a cam was useless.

Forrest Carver wrote: I was warned by many people not to buy the below, but because I know everything and can only achieve happiness buy purchasing material goods, I bought them anyway

Very useless
-Micronuts snip...

Ross Swanson wrote:
Wait till your runout on sketchy terrain and the only placement is a micro nut, you will be so happy to have them and they weigh practically nothing.

You'll be happy to have it until it wiggles out of the crack the moment you try to climb past it...

climbing friend,

device of belay assisted braking style, for ex girlfriend.

Peter J wrote:

You'll be happy to have it until it wiggles out of the crack the moment you try to climb past it...

Or you spend 10 minutes trying to place the damn thing since you never do otherwise, and realize partway through this process that you (a) could have just finished the pitch by now and (b) now are forced to finish the climb significantly more pumped than you were before trying to place the nut, making a fall even more likely, orrr (c) give up on the placement entirely and STILL have to do the moves in a more pumped state than otherwise.

Aleks Zebastian wrote: climbing friend,

device of belay assisted braking style, for ex girlfriend.

You had a girlfriend? 

Blakevan wrote:

You had a girlfriend? 

Camp Tri cams

Hobo Greg wrote:

Shh we're not supposed to tell anyone about last night!

Side note, wanna trade the offsets for a mastercam?

I actually really like them, thanks though. Still touring the eastern sierras?

Ryan Swanson wrote: Dictionary

Ah, shoot. The 101 thumbs ups didn't copy, lol!!

Hobo Greg wrote:

Hell yea brother.

Not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous. Give a shout out if and when you make it out to the southwest sierras. Needles and dome land area.

Nate Tastic wrote:

Punctuation. 

You can only buy vowels

If you include stuff used for backcountry approaches then this is a list of stuff that comes to mind

BD hexes (wild country ones are nice on winter climbs)
Bouldering brush
Chalk bag
Classic piolet (ice tools and hybrid axes cover every use scenario and are better than the classic axe on easy routes)
Specter and large pitons (small ones see use)
Horizontal front point crampons
water filter (iodine is enough)
Indoor drytooling picks
Spot messenger
Compression sacks
Compass & maps
belay glovesAnd go do knows what else
Climbing pants though are great. Good to have something that will stop wind, dry fast, not impair mobility and pack down well. 

BD Gridlock Magnetron. Basically impossible to use. Reg magnetron & screwgate gridlock are fine  

Bogdan P wrote: If you include stuff used for backcountry approaches then this is a list of stuff that comes to mind

BD hexes (wild country ones are nice on winter climbs)
Bouldering brush
Chalk bag
Classic piolet (ice tools and hybrid axes cover every use scenario and are better than the classic axe on easy routes)
Specter and large pitons (small ones see use)
Horizontal front point crampons
water filter (iodine is enough)
Indoor drytooling picks
Spot messenger
Compression sacks
Compass & maps
belay glovesAnd go do knows what else
Climbing pants though are great. Good to have something that will stop wind, dry fast, not impair mobility and pack down well. 

Personally, I think a water filter is worthwhile. Iodine doesn't taste great and makes you pee funny colors. 

cragmantoo wrote:

Personally, I think a water filter is worthwhile. Iodine doesn't taste great and makes you pee funny colors. 

I had a SteriPen but it was kind of a pain to use and I always wondered if it really worked. That is probably something I regret ever buying

I concur :D.....Sawyer mini is so lightweight that it seems well worth it too me.

Big B wrote:

I concur :D.....Sawyer mini is so lightweight that it seems well worth it too me.

I wholeheartedly agree, but remember filters and cold don't mix well, so depending on what you mostly do it could be useless.