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UPDATE: Remaining pieces available include: #0.5 Camalot #1 Camalot All the DMM Wallnuts 19 BD Stoppers Thanks for the responses.

Update: I have received a lot of PMs in response to this ad so first, thanks to everyone for the interest and second, I will be working through my messages responding to people in the order they were received. If you don't hear from me shortly please sit tight, I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Also, one buyer asked the important question about the Aliens and I thought I'd share the answer. I should have thought to mention this in the first place. I believe the yellow Alien was manufactured prior to the recalled lot and I bought the green Alien in 2005, which I believe was after the recall. I forget if there are any distinguishing physical characteristics of the recalled manufacturing run, but I'm happy to inspect them or offer a refund to the buyer of the Aliens if he/she is concerned about the recall status of the cams.

I'm retiring from trad climbing and am selling my pro. All pieces are in great shape unless specifically noted. I'd prefer to sell this gear in chunks rather than piece it out bit by bit, so I'm offering better prices and racking biners if you want all the DMMs, all the Stoppers, etc. If you need to fill that one gap in your rack, however, feel free to give me a shout anyway. All gear stored in a Rubbermaid bin in a closet when not in use. I'll update the list as stuff sells, so what you see is what's available. First to pay gets the goods. Located in Seattle, can meet downtown for cash transactions. Can also ship anywhere in conUS at buyer's expense, PayPal accepted. Whole shebang: 17 cams, 21 nuts, 3 tri-cams, plus 10 racking biners and Rubbermaid storage bin for $500. If this stuff was all new it would sell for about $1,400. Cams: DMM 4CU, 11 cams total, continuous size run. $35 each or $300 for full set. Full set includes 4 notchless racking biners (DMM, Petzl, and WC). UPDATE 2/13/12: COMPLETE SET SOLD Sizes: 1/2 purple 3/4 green 1 blue 1 1/4 silver 1 1/2 gold 1 3/4 red 2 purple 2 1/2 gren 3 blue 3 1/2 silver 4 gold Black Diamond Camalots, 3 cams total. $70 for all 3, will include a BD Positron notchless racking biner. 1/2 purple (older U-stem design, minor abrasion on sling) $20 1 red (pre-C4, sling is a bit fuzzy) $25 2 gold C4 (nearly new, placed only a couple times) $35 SOLD Aliens Yellow (a little dirty) $35 Green (nearly new) $45 Wild Country Zero Yellow Z4 (placed once or twice) $25 Small cam bundle: both Aliens and the WC Zero for $90, set includes a DMM racking biner. SOLD PENDING FUNDS Nuts! Nuts have varying degrees of wear, the middle of the size range has been placed more than the smaller and larger ones. All cables straight with no kinks (except the free DMM #0), all size numbers still visible on the nuts. BD Stoppers, non-anodized. 14 total. $5 each. Full set for $55 includes 2 BD Positron notchless racking biners. Size, quantity #3, 1 #5, 1 #6, 1 #7, 2 #8, 2 (2/13: 1 remaining) #9, 2 (2/13: 1 remaining) #10, 2 #11, 1 #12, 1 #13, 1 DMM Wallnuts. 7 pieces. $5 each except for the #0 which is free as part of whole set. Full set $25 includes racking biner. Size, quantity #0, 1 (a bit kinky, still fine for aid) #1, 1 #2, 1 #4, 2 #5, 2 Tri-cams They are old, they are dirty, but slings are in good shape. $15 for the full set of 3 which includes BD oval racking biner. Pink 2 Red 1 COMPLETE SET SOLD

Quark Ergos, lightly used, mostly on ice. These are the old school Charlet Moser originals. Excellent shape. Added strips of grip tape to handles, works well for matching. Picks are 3mm Cascade, sharp, tuned, and with much life remaining. $280. Grivel 360, 17cm. Excellent shape, minor surface rust at hanger/tube intersection. All moving parts work perfectly. Teeth are sharp, this screw did not match the rest of my ice pro so it never saw much use. $30. BD Turbo, 17cm. This is a standard Turbo modified with a twirly knob from Omega Pacific added to the hanger. It's an improvement from the regular Turbo but it's not as good as a true Express screw. I kept this around as a bail piece so teeth and threads are in great shape. $15. Can meet in Seattle for local transaction or ship anywhere in ConUS at buyer's expense. PayPal accepted. PM with questions.

Buy a recent 3-antenna digital as already suggested. But here's the twist: before you leave the parking lot you give your beacon to a partner and take his/hers. Not that anyone actually does this, but it makes the point about where your priorities should be. A beacon, any beacon, is not helpful if you don't know how to use it. Having one does not guarantee your safety in snow. It is also important to have training and familiarity with your beacon, along with all the other snow safety gear that goes along with it: probe & shovel at a minimum. Beyond that, understanding snow conditions, terrains, and avalanche safety is also helpful to staying alive. Taking an Avy 1 course would be a great thing to do after you pick up your beacon. Sure, it's another expense, but the knowledge you'll gain will be valuable. The cheaper option, however, is to do none of these things and stay home. Not without its own tradeoffs.

Have you checked downclub.net?

1-2 days I use CiloGear 45L worksack. Longer than 1 night I use Arc'teryx Needle 55. I'm a big dude with a big appetite and take a lot of food, necessitating a larger pack than people with smaller appetites need. For winter overnight trips I use Osprey Exposure 66. My personal overnight best was taking my oooold school Osprey Aether (the first one they ever made- 30 liters, no frame) on E Ridge Forbidden with about 25 pounds. On the other end of the spectrum I carried 80 pounds in a Dana Terraplane on a 28-day trip in WY. My knees are happy to have retired from NOLS.

Do you have a Hungarian phrasebook? My hovercraft is full of eels.

Take your boot/overboot combo to a gear shop and see what fits. In some cases, the combined volume of a boot with overboot is simply too big to fit in the plastic/webbing toe strap. Also, the width of the boot/overboot heel may be wider than the heel bail on the crampon. The heels on my boots are so wide that I had to shave a little bit of the sole off to get my crampons to fit. If you buy either a semi-automatic (half & half) or fully automatic (step-in) crampon, store your boots with the overboots on and crampons attached (i.e. as if you were about to set off on summit day). This will compress the neoprene of the overboot where the bails connect and the foam will develop a "memory" of where the bails sit. This will make it a little easier to put the crampons on when you're actually on the mountain.

That there Cloudveil jacket is the Headwall. Gore Windstopper fabric. I've had one for about 6 years, really dig it. Not light, but sure is tough.

Ashland is about 400 miles from Mount Rainier.

Wait until the recall. Sorry, couldn't resist.

The 3 most important pieces of gear you can take on a trip are 1. footwear 2. sleeping bag 3. backpack Depending on the trip, 2 & 3 could be reversed, but as a general rule if any of these 3 pieces of gear has deficiencies it will negatively impact your trip in bigger ways than other pieces of gear will. For $500 you will not be able to afford top-of-the line items in all 3 categories, but you could get either 1. a super awesome sleeping bag (Feathered Friends or Western Mountaineering), or 2. a really good pair of boots and a really good backpack. If you already have these items covered, then it's a question of where can you realize the biggest improvement or weight savings or simplification. Swapping out your 2-lb Thermarest for a half-pound foam pad, getting a cooking system like the MSR Reactor, or finally finding the perfect fitting pants that you'll wear on every single climbing trip would all be good investments.

You say you want newer items. Are you aware that Dana Designs stopped making packs about 7 years ago? Marmot bought their pack line and Dana Gleason went on to start Mystery Ranch. By "newer" I'm guessing you mean "good condition". I have a 1996, Bozeman-made Dana Designs Big Horn. 4,000 cubic inches (more volume than the Bomb Pack, less volume than the Bridger), panel & top-loader, same suspension as the Bomb Pack and Bridger, integrated Beaver Tail compression panel. Just as the Bridger was the smaller, Killer B frame version of the Terraplane, the Big Horn is the smaller, Killer B version of the Alpine. It ain't light and after 15 years it ain't pretty, but damn if that isn't one of the most comfortable carrying packs I've ever owned. Indestructible, too. Let me know if you're interested.

Yeah, they look awesome is right.

Aaaaaaand sold. Thank you for playing.

Ryan, having worked in outdoor retail and product design for 6 years I have learned a thing or two about fabrics. Something you might not know about Gore fabrics in general, and Paclite in particular, is that it uses urethane to protect the PTFE laminate from oils and dirt. The tradeoff here is that breathability is compromised. By contrast, eVent does not use urethane in its laminate formulation, so breathability is a bit better. That being said, there are limits to how well ANY laminate/coating will breathe, so if you find that your jacket is retaining moisture on the inside the problem is not the jacket, it's the wearer using the wrong tool for the job. In my experience, Paclite is not even breathable enough for standing around and conducting light activities in camp. The weight of the face fabric does not appreciably affect the breathability of the membrane, at least not in the weight range that most manufacturers are using on their garments. If you laminate Gore Tex to 12oz/yd cotton canvas that will affect breathability, but when you are comparing 1.3oz/yd ripstop nylon with 1.6oz/yd nylon, the differences will be imperceptible. Which is why I find your statement about proprietary laminates puzzling. Most "proprietary" laminates are just licensed rebranding of other products. Do you really think REI designed and manufactures its own laminate? Of course not, they just license it from another company. I have visited the Gore factory and seen their testing facilities. Face fabric weight is not a consideration in their certification process. Overall performance is how they evaluate garments. You are spot on with your observations about the weight/durability tradeoff and the importance of keeping your garments clean and properly treated to ensure that they perform as intended. If the face fabric is soaked, your body's water vapor is not going to move through that barrier.

Owing to some confusion, this is now back on the market.

Y'all should listen to Max. Dude knows what he's talking about.

Gore Paclite is advertised as being extremely breathable. I had one and couldn't understand the claim. It was the most useless jacket I've ever owned in terms of breathability. It was light, however. If you want something that is light and actually breathes, you should check out a shell made with event fabric. Like this one in the Yard Sale, which, despite what the thread says, is still available.

Sold pending funds.

Let's just say my federal tax returns don't necessarily reflect all my sources of income. Just kidding. That is my wife's scale. She uses it to measure ingredients for cooking and for tracking her food intake. If a box of cereal suggests a serving size of 6 ounces for whatever calories & fiber, she measures out that much.

Did I mention this was 12 ounces?

Justin, you should know that adding 4 ounces of down to a Widgeon makes it warmer than -15. Is the bag you're selling trapezoidal or box baffle? Guessing trap since it has the removable collar. Very nice bag, I used to have one.

That's either a joke or you don't know what you're talking about. Hard to catch subtle humor on the interwebs.