What's the best piece of gear you own?

[JayB]

CloudVeil Serendipity jacket. Best/most versatile piece of gear I've ever owned. Worked great as a light-wind breaker for summer peak bagging, and kept me warm and dry while getting poured on as I was dragging my ass up a still forming icefall last weekend. Ended up with 1/2" of verglass on my helmet, but the H2O never made it through my jacket. It also kicks ass on approaches, as I can throw it on over a light polypro top and never have to change layers or endure yet another sweatbox experience in a shell that supposedly breathes. Might not be the right coat for a downpour in the Olympics, but it kicks ass for everything else.

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[glacier_dup1]

I second the vote for the Yellow TCU. There seems to be a placement for it on nearly every gear route.

Marmot windshirt - going on 8 years. Use it as a 1st/2nd layer on alpine, packable insulation on long routes, light shell for running or cool days, mid-layer under leather jacket for winter motorcycling.

Just bought a Petzl Reverso - It's supplanted my Wild Country Variable Controller as belay/rappel device of choice, especially for multi-pitch.

My $15 down jacket I got from Cabela's returns department. Most bang for the buck (or duck).

My ugly grey camoflage boonie hat. Just because.

[Cpt.Caveman]

I have a red alien. I bought it this spring. It goes in on every pitch. I guess I already got my money for that one.

[chucK]

my lighter with a picture of a guy with googlie eyes holding a keg spout that says "One man keg party!"

oh and a yellow ALIEN (kicks butt on the yellow TCU)

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[verticalturtle]

Hands down My Arc'teryx Gamma SV jacket. Does everything well, from summer alpine to winter ice to bacon and eggs.

Oh yeah is pretty good too!

[plexus]

JAyB,

I want your CloudVeil jacket. Friend had one and it was sweet. I haven't been able to find one though.

Best gear, toss up between my #6 curved nut (three falls and holding strong) and my ice ax -- it slices, it dices, it arrests, it cams, it opens beers

[specialed]

My naked lady lighter from the dollar store on University Ave.

[Bronco]

Thank God for my BD nut tool. Since I spend most of my time cleaning gear that is firmly jammed, yanked and hammered into cracks, (except traverses which go unprotected for some reason ) i really need a beer bottle opener when we are done climbin.

[jason_h]

#2 camalot, ahh yes the #2 camalot, i love the #2 camalot. perfect hand size, puts a smile on my face everytime, i wish i was in the creek with nothing but #2 camalots. yes, the #2 camalot is the best.

[Wallstein]

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[chuckie]

tikka

[willstrickland]

quote:

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Originally posted by Wallstein:

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You don't know what your rack is missing until you use your partners Hybrid Aliens. Hybrids will make those flaring jingus cam placements into one piece anchors....

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Not really off the mark though, I used a couple from someone else's rack and after placing them a time or two I was drooling...picked up a couple that a local shop couldn't sell and were blowing out and then filled out my set a little while ago courtesy of Barrabes. For clean aid and pin scars they are a godsend, makes tied off stacked pins look plain silly.

[fishstick]

Best gear:

Simond Piranhas, they always work, everywhere.Wild Country Rockcentrics, simple, light, effective and poundable into icy cracks. They are to big hexes what rocks are to small ones.Pink and red tricams, I don't leave home without them.

[freeclimb9]

a pair of Boreal Aces

[monkeyboy]

I love Hexes! When I climb with them I get the respect. They are the old school slung kind and people assume I been climing longer than I really have! I love Tri-Cams too. They work well and they piss off people that don't understand them.

[Richard_Pumpington]

Have to agree with JayB on the Cloudveil jacket!

I've loved mine since I bought it.Schoeller is

creating some kick ass materials!What about Petzl

tibloc? Using 2 for a simple z-pulley system is

quick and light. Oh, and my sexy susie blow up

doll...never mind.

[ScottP]

quote:

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Originally posted by willstrickland:

... tied off stacked pins ....

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A lost art in itself...

[Neri]

My 5 X 8 Integral Design tarp and endurance sleeping bag cover, my nylon Western Mountaineering Apache sleeping bag, Patagonia puff ball, petzl micro, Arc’teryx Gamma SV jacket, makalu boots, GoLite Gust, my Cassin aluminum crampons and my Grivel air tech racing that’s practically sums my favorite gear also the gear I almost always take with me

[ScottP]

I've got a #1 HB Quadcam that's saved my ass numerous times. It seems to fit somewhere on just about any route I do and is easily placeable with two fingers. The only drawback I have found is trying to place it wearing anything other than thin gloves.

My Denali SuperGaitors have kept my feet dry and warm going on twenty years now. (I have replaced the rands four times.)

[willstrickland]

Yellow Metolius TCU

[Dru]

pair of Quarks, or 2 pink tri cams - toss up.

[fredrogers]

.75 Camalot or my 168 K2 Eldorado Snowboard.

Both have saved my ass a number of times.

[Richard_Pumpington]

How about BD Neutrino 'biners? Petzl Mini/Pro

traxion? Petzl Tikka? Oh, and whatever group

gear my partner has to carry.

[al]

Its the piece of gear you need, when you need it. Not your "favorite", left back at the car.

[E._Hobbs]

I also must say my Yellow Metolius TCU. Found a brand new one stuck half-way up the Saber route on Castle Rock. Added it to my rack and have used it dozens of times.

Have subsequently added 4 more TCU to my rack--still like my o'll yeller the best, though.