Dumbest outdoor gear purchase

mammut smart belay. nice, cheap "locking" belay device but its crap for feeding rope when on lead belay. sits at the bottom of my gym pack.

Worst Purchases:

1.) Metolius FS Minis - hard to just clip
2.) Large Hexes - I was probably drunk
3.) Just wait Ill buy something I dont need...

/\ That.

Oh and the Mini biners from Metolious. Borderline useless

Mike Belu wrote:Early purchases made at full price. Also, of course, the Swedish penis pump. Like the Swedes are known for their amazingly large members....

Hence their amazing innovations in penis pump technology!

Gaiters.

Joseph Dul wrote: neck or legs or??? for me the neck ones are actually very beneficial

Both! My Fortrez jacket has a built-in neck gaiter. If you don't have one built-in, then a neck gaiter is understandable.

tomde01 wrote:My 70m 10.5 rope. Pretty much unusable unless your top-roping, which I don't do that often. If I want to top-rope something that usually means carrying it or leading something easier which I don't want to do with that rope anyway.

I bought a ~60m worth of 11 mm static rope after going caving with a guy who used that. I thought, great a burly rope that will never wear out, it will be great for aid climbing too. That thing is so damn heavy, I can't even give that thing away for people to use. However, I'd feel safe on it even if a viking with a battle ax was trying to swat a fly on the rope. Also it has been useful for some route cleaning missions but an 8 or 9 mm static would be much more appropriate.

Rechargeable UV pen.

Then the Sawyer Squeeze came out.

Metolius Safe Tech Trad harness.

Most infuriating, least dialed piece of gear I've ever owned. Makes it worse that it's from a dialed company. Luckily got it on deep discount for $55, still not at all worth it.

Could I argue Climbing Gym membership?

Because since then I've spent thousands on gear, gas, and booze. An now all career decision and lifestyle changes revolve around climbing. Its been a downward spiral with my climbing addiction (do they have meetings for this? Is it in the partner find on MP?). At least climbing gear is sexy.

Those 2 lobe cams from Splitter gear. Lame

BigNobody wrote:Those 2 lobe cams from Splitter gear. Lame

haha those sat in my closet for years after I saw them in Front Range Freaks. I mean it was cool that two CU engineers made them, but the best move they made was to sell the patent to Trango.

Considering I almost exclusively climb on sandstone and limestone I think buying a camhook was pretty dumb. Maybe someday I'll climb some granite and get to use it.

Any ebay cam for 20 bucks from a foreign country. Most were just so I could see and study the #$%&* thing, and never got placed in any scary spots. Gotta include some past climbing shoes too, bought via an online sale..some a total waste.

bruno-cx wrote:Black Diamond Gridlock Magnetron Carabiner. Hard to use with a Grigri and a total pain to keep the magnets clean. Would have taken it back to REI had I purchased it there.

You have to get the screw lock magnetron.

Sirius wrote:Metolius Safe Tech Trad harness. Most infuriating, least dialed piece of gear I've ever owned. Makes it worse that it's from a dialed company. Luckily got it on deep discount for $55, still not at all worth it.

Ha, yea I felt the same way when I first got mine. It took me a few moments just to figure out how to put it on. I have to give it to Metolius for making a safe harness, but really the full strength gear loops and rope locator are pretty unnecessary.

1) A heavy, double-wall 2 person 4-season expedition tent.

2) A big, heavy 80 liter Gregory internal frame backpack.

Cheap tent back those good'n'old days in 2001. It was made of heavy both water and air virtually impenetrable siliconized fabric. We had about 10 days hike through Siberian taiga and mountains with a decent amount of rainy days. To be more precise, we saw the Sun twice - hour and half at the first day and almost half a day at the 4'th or 5'th day. Except of those two beautiful weather periods when it were not raining it were rainstorming.

Except of the weight only problems with the cheap tent made of that water impenetrable fabric were seams and zipper. They were seeping. Oh, man, in terms of water seeping seems and zipper this tent is probably the best in the World. It took two nights - very miserable wet and cold nights - to figure out the remedy to the tent. To pour out water had been collecting in our tent we cut holes in its bottom. Also we found that it is better not to close the zipper because to some extent people need at least some air to breathe.

I claim this buy as two tents purchase - the first and the last cheap poorly constructed tents I will have ever bought.

Ok, 'fess up. Did anyone ever buy this when it came out?

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NorCalNomad Blank wrote: You have to get the screw lock magnetron.

I do not think it means what you think it means.