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    First Ascent Clothing - New choices

    in The Gear Critic

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    My XLs won't make 1.5 Nalgene :)

     

    XV on the left in a 6x12 with room to spare. Mtn Hardware Compressor Hoody on the right, tight, in a # 3 FF stuff sack, 8x5?. Both jackets are XLs. If you wear a "Small", things would go into much, much smaller sacks :)

     

    I'm finding the best sythetic belay jackets (DAS, WT BJ and Dually) and the best down belay jackets will go into a smaller sacks than they are shipped with and all my XLs will go into the 12x6 with different levels of effort and generally with room to spare.

     

    Well, my WT BJ is a large, as will the EB XV (when it arrives), so they're a little smaller, but I think one of the big diffs is that I use a compression sack and crank the crap out of the straps, where your photo shows a regular ol' stuff sack.

     

    To Ryan's post, I did notice no internal Nalgene chest pocket, though that won't likely be an issue for me as I usu. carry my bottles in a cozy on the pack or waistbelt. A little disappointed about no two-way zipper, though. (Dumb of me not to check...)

    First Ascent Clothing - New choices

    in The Gear Critic

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    XV is about the same as the WT...but I'll have more detailed info in a few days. No question the XV is worth the sale price and retail price for that matter imo.

     

    If you are looking for a jacket that is tiny in the pack this aint it. But it is also one of the warmest ( a step up over the WT BJ and most everything else) when it comes to real climbing jackets available....just no free lunch.

     

    Using an OR compression sack I can get my WT BJ down to about a Nalgege-and-a-half...will have to see if the EB XV can squish the same.

     

    Thanks, man. I just ordered it at my local EB for $175 shipped. (They didn't have my size/color combo in stock.)

     

    Sha-zam!! :tup:

    Backyard Dry Tool Set-up?

    in Ice Climbing Forum

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    I built an Ice training tower one time. It was 24 ft high made from 2x10's. It had 2x4 blocks screwed to the sides with holes drilled that fit ice screws so you could practice placing screws, one of the hardest parts of ice climbing. It had a piece of rope in the center that you could put ascenders or prusiks on. It was set up so you could change the angle from 80 to 90 to 100 deg.

     

    Got any pics of that setup? Sounds schweet!!

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