What's a piece of gear not many people own, but you use/recommend?

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Simple and no teeth. I use it mostly for my TR solo rig.

Crucial gear

The solution to years of squished sandwiches and ziplock jelly explosions. Mine's not Hello Kitty, but I take it on every trip. Peenuts are good too.

Why not flip the question around: What are items that lots of people bring but that you don't really need?

nkane wrote:Why not flip the question around: What are items that lots of people bring but that you don't really need?

It seems that most gear and tech threads revert to that discussion

Tim Lutz wrote: +1 and a magnifying glass for the wake n bake. Clean hit, great in the wind.

Is there enough sun to use at waking hours?

Jim Turner wrote: Is there enough sun to use at waking hours?

most stoners wake up around 10am or later

+1 for hollow block. so smooth.

KONG GIGI 5X less work to belay up a second I haven't used my atc guide since i got this thing. Only cost like 10 bucks too

KONG GIGI

Daryl Allan wrote:Aeropress

This- It goes everywhere with me.

Eli Buzzell wrote:dmm peenuts

+2, equalize the aid pieces if you are nervous on thin pro, better than nothing when its the only thing.

Also my rescuescender, from hauling to self belay I love it and it wont jack my rope.

Daryl Allan wrote:Aeropress

Add a hario hand grinder to that and a gas stove. Freshly ground and brewed coffee for post ski traffic on I70. Also, find some 5mil filtering felt and make re-usable filters. The taste is even better if you can imagine that. Better than the paper and the stainless steel filters. The felt allows better water flow and less channeling.

Jake Jones wrote:Dog leash.

+>9000

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Wild Country Superlight Rocks (single cable), not to be confused with WC's new "Superlight Offset Rocks"

They are my favorite nuts, hands down. The set is incredibly light, and covers a HUGE range of placements. They are super useful and confidence inspiring micro offsets. Turn them sideways and they are like a set of standard nuts, matching WC/DMM nut sizing/color, but they fit in placements that are half as shallow! They are like a WC rock cut in half.

They can sit on the back of your harness unnoticed, until you need them. They've un-puckered me so many times I've lost count.Their versatility though is what really seals the deal.

Kirtis wrote:KONG GIGI 5X less work to belay up a second I haven't used my atc guide since i got this thing. Only cost like 10 bucks too

Second that, I love the gigi, really saves energy on a long climb. On thinner ropes I can easily just take on the brake strand and leave the other hand free for tasks like drinking water.

I love the Click-up by Climbing Technologies.
I prefer it over a Grigri.

Funny at the craig. No one knows what it is and they don't understand what you're belaying with.

Huge fan of this for my TR solo setup - use it in conjunction with another device - no teeth on this thing either so easier on the rope and it's nice and small so it stays out of the way. It's heavy for its size so not likely to go on long trips out, but it makes a great progress capture device if anticipating doing a lot of ascending ropes or assisting a partner up on a 3:1 hoists (in tandem with the GriGri.)

Petzl Microcender

easy!

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JeffMK wrote:http://www.backcountry.com/ushba-basic-ascender-sport Simple and no teeth. I use it mostly for my TR solo rig.

I love my Ushba, but I was under the impression that their manufacture had been discontinued. Has production resumed?

#11 hex or #7 tricam for beating back the gumbies!

Paul Coakley wrote:I love the Click-up by Climbing Technologies. I prefer it over a Grigri. Funny at the craig. No one knows what it is and they don't understand what you're belaying with.

Same thing with my AlpineUp. People are always asking "What the hell is that thing?"

DMM offsets would be another good one to add to the list