Favorite Guilty Pleasure Item for Bigwalls

Electric Tooth Brush, your weight in beer?

What’s your favorite item to bring on Bigwalls that most weight weenies would scoff at.

I’m pretty boring, handle of whiskey, ghetto blaster and a pair of clean socks for the hike down.

• Color changing lightweight camp lantern
• Synth insulated booties and separate pair of nighttime socks
• Blow up pillow
• Various pride flags 
• Bigwall plushie
• Walkie talkies 
• (for winter) Toe Warmer packets

And my new things I'm super excited about:

• Battery powered color changing led fairylights to string up on my portaledge at night 
• I just got a pair of usb-c rechargeable heated socks that I'm excited to see if they can hold up to the abuse of bigwall

Penthouse letters. 

Body wipes and a bar of soap for the top out. 

While I'm not sure these count as guilty, these down socks are pretty luxurious.  I doubt Warren Harding had a pair.

Down Socks (Goose Feet Gear)

Paired with a good hat, they significantly boost your warmth at night, potentially allowing you to get away with a lighter sleeping bag.  They now live permanently in the bottom of my sleeping bag. 

Shorts and clean socks for the hike down. Hiking poles. 

Mark Hudon wrote:

Hiking poles. 

Every day

FM Radio 

Quinn Hatfield wrote:

FM Radio 

<geriatrics have entered the chat>   ;)

Sam Skovgaard wrote:

While I'm not sure these count as guilty, these down socks are pretty luxurious.  I doubt Warren Harding had a pair.

According to those who climbed with him, Warren never even took his boots off once he was on the wall. 

Pride flags?

Mountainproject

Birds aren’t real flag

Ghetto blaster

Whiskey

Firewood

Wood burning stove to make premarinated chicken

Laptop to watch Nicholas Cage

Binoculars and a Guidebook.

So I can watch from the meadows...

Peter Zabrok wrote:

Pride flags?

Yes.

Double J wrote:

Penthouse letters. 

Dear Penthouse Forum, 

I never thought these stories were real until an experience I had on Chickenhead Ledge on El Capitan.   It all started when…………..

^^ Bwah ha ha ha ha!!  Obviously a relic from the 70s/80s and a fan of good ol Bob Guccione.

Being finished, is my favorite bigwall guilty pleasure.

Climbed with one partner, and we used VOX headset radios. After we got done, we had someone who was nearby say they were amazed that we appeared to be Psychic linked as they never heard us speak or yell commands! (If the only realized, it was not magic!)

Solo Climbs - Cassette walkman, lots of batteries and tapes. 

Mini deck of cards, Travel chess and checkers, Hanging stove. This was back before IPADS, Cell phones, Jet Boil.  Man, I don't know how we survived!

jc5462 wrote:

Solo Climbs - Cassette walkman, lots of batteries and tapes. 

Bruh, you probably still rockin the yellow Walkman Extreme too.  

Kevin Mokracek wrote:

Bruh, you probably still rockin the yellow Walkman Extreme too.  

Never had Yellow! Brown was favorite. Did have various brands in Silver, White, Red and Blue. Buy cheap, if it breaks toss and get new one. 

Now I would take my Ipod! smaller, holds more music than I can carry and rechargeable. 

Boombox was cool, but man 8 "D" cells? a lot of weight, plus you would risk offending someone else!