Gear porn tour! The ultimate CLIMBING gear review of the gear on my studio wall

If you want me to go into detail on what I have on my gear wall, check it out on this episode of How Not To Highline. Hi, I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to my gear closet. Today I'm going to go into detail on the climbing side of what I have on this wall. I've been asked many times to go into detail what I have here and I've already done a video on the highlining side. I went into detail for 45 minutes going over the pros and cons and why I bought stuff and whether or not I would buy it again. Keep in mind, this is not all my gear, but just the smaller, shiny, pretty stuff that I can put on a wall behind me for videos that I make. A lot of the bulkier stuff and camping things are in my garage. If you want me to go into detail and gear review the stuff that I have out there, let me know in the comments that you like these and I'll film another episode. Now, I talked about the pegboard in the previous video, but in case you haven't seen that, this is just 4x8 sheets of pegboard that I put the white side facing this way, but I also ended up painting it because I had seams and marks and things like that. Now, you can't just put pegboard against the wall, otherwise the hooks, the pegs don't go behind it when you stick them in the holes. I took 1x3 trim boards and made a perimeter around and put the 4x8 sheet on here. There's two and a half sheets for this wall and you can see the seams right there. Now, if I really wanted to put something there because you can't put the pegs inside, I put just a screw where I'd want to hang something like this right inside that wood. Now, pegboard by itself isn't that expensive, maybe 20, 30 bucks a sheet, but it's when you start having to buy the trim boards and the pegs is when it starts to add up. Now, if you've seen my older videos, you'll see that I was filming in my garage and what I had there were sheets of plywood with skinny long lag bolts just screwed into it and it was plenty strong and that wasn't ever intended to be a studio, which is why it was so dark, but it looked really nice, it filled the garage really well and I did that for pretty cheap. Now, if you have a space that you could hang gear instead of just keeping it in tote boxes or whatever, then you could just buy one sheet of pegboard and put, I recommend if you don't need to film behind it, the brown side out and it doesn't show as many of the marks and then you only need to buy a couple pegs. You don't have to like go all out or crazy, but you could. You may wonder why I'm not filming in my garage. It's because when I was setting it up when I moved to this house, it was 110 degrees in that garage because it was summer and I was like, oh hell no. So we just put this smaller wall behind here, it's in my office, it's right next to my computer, makes editing a lot easier. However, real life now is every time I go on a trip, I take all this down and then I've got to put it all back up all night, which is, you know, kind of forces me to keep my shit together, but yeah, this is, I actually use this and so it's kind of hard, especially if I'm like filming an episode over a while and not just one take like this. Yeah, having your gear behind you is a lot more difficult than just having a beautiful picture of Yosemite, but people like it. Now before we get into the climbing stuff, let me tell you why I have so much climbing stuff. It's because I'm only two or three hours away from Yosemite and so since I learned climbing there and was inspired by El Capitan, I've climbed 17 big walls successfully, six of which have been El Capitan and our most awesome trip was when Justin Smestin and I did the Zodiac clean and so that was a little nerve wracking using inverted cam hooks for 30 feet and sawed off pitons, which I'll show you in a little bit. Those are actually pretty cool, but yeah, I did a lot, a lot of climbing before I transitioned into highlining and I can get a lot more of the best feelings from climbing the entire time I'm highlining and in my opinion, it's a lot safer to highline because when you're scared, it's usually like just a mindfuck you got to deal with, whereas if you're scared climbing, there's probably a good reason you're scared and you might die or hit a wall or injure yourself. Okay, we're going to insert a quick plug here for the International Church of Slacklife. Go to slackline.com, join the most stoked filled church today and grab a t-shirt and sign up for the newsletter. We have a book of slack, we have sermons, there's tons of stuff on there. Go check it out and also to really help this channel do a lot more of the stuff that I'm really visioning doing, please go to patreon.com and donate one dollar per episode to help make this channel even better. So now I hardly climb, but I did it for 10 years, so let me tell you the things I've learned about the gear. Let's get started. My locking carabiners are, I have a couple favorites. I have just a couple of these big boys. This is from Black Diamond and I prefer the auto locks because more often times than not you forget to lock these things and just because it's bigger doesn't mean it's stronger. The other two lockers I have are Camp Photon lockers. Now they had the screw gates before they had the auto locks, but I really, really like the auto locks. The noses are very similar. This does have a skinnier nose there than the auto lock and this has a sharp edge right there. It hasn't been much of a problem, but it is kind of sharp. But anyways, basically I just have a ton of these when I go use them. They're just as strong as this guy and the prices are reasonable, but Camp Photon lockers are just the way to go. Skinny noses are super helpful when you're trying to load up a hanger with two or three beaners. And then we have my two favorite non-lockers. This is just the workhorse of carabiners. The oval shape just works really, really well with everything you're doing. Whether or not it's an aid ladder or you're trying to fill up hangers with a lot of beaners or you're trying to keep things organized, the shape just helps. Now I did start to go with this shape which is the Camp Photon beaner. You can tell I like Camp Photon. The bent wire gate is just, it just opens so nicely and it has such a huge gate opening right there. And the nose is super, super thin. I can fit like four of these in a hanger. Not that I generally do that, but I mean if you're all clustered up on a big wall anchor, it's really, really nice not to have some fat noses. This is what I put on all of my aliens and these cams here and I ended up putting them on my black diamonds as well. So my shoulder length slings, these are like anything I'm clipping a rope to, I have for this. They're super nice. These are my two ATCs. I bought just your plain old boring ATC back in the day when I didn't know better. I really, really like these kind. There's so many these days, but this is just your pencil kind for the reverso. So you could hang it there and then belay, hang that on your master point and then belay your follower without having to actually have it on your harness. Ideally you'd want to put a string there so if you have to pull it back to give them some slack, which really sucks if you don't have a setup for that. However, this nose fits in there. Yay for skinny noses. And then you can just pull it back. So that's why I don't have a string. But the pencil reverso is my go-to ATC when I use ATCs. Because I really, really like passive belaying. So if somebody's not paying attention, I know I'm safe as a leader and I'm not worried about them texting somebody while belaying. It happens. This is the Grigri 1. This is the Grigri 2. And this is the Grigri 3. Now I actually really like the Grigri 3 or Grigri Plus. And it has just like, if you pull it too fast, it auto locks. So you can't like slide down your rope. I prefer these Grigris over the cinch. I had a friend with a cinch and it just, if you weren't hanging on to it, it wouldn't lock up and I mean, otherwise why would you just use an ATC, right? So these are pretty good, especially the Plus. It doesn't lock up so much that you can't like belay somebody properly because that really sucks when you can't get rope and you're trying to stand up on your tippy toes. But I like repelling with this. I still use a Prusik with this because I hate repelling. The lack of redundancy just scares the shit out of me. So yeah, go Grigris. Here are my Tringle Balls. So let me show you how these work. You have this half circle, half ball with a wire, pulls it down and you slide it in and you would think these would work, right? The only one you can tell that I have used is that guy and they bend up pretty easily when you do use them, which is fine. I mean, if they're going to help you get up the wall, I mean, it could be worth it, but I don't know. They just, it's really hard to get them to stay and then it's really hard to get them to come out. Nobody's going to come up to you and go, oh wow, are those those Tringle Balls? So I don't even really take these. If I'm going to go on a big wall, I'd rather just cam hook, but I thought they were pretty fancy when I bought them. Here are my DMM Offset Nuts. And these, I don't even carry any other kind of nuts, mostly because I don't use a lot of nuts. But this taper, as you can see here, is super nice when you're dealing with just the kind of cracks I'm used to in Yosemite. Offset Nuts are so nice. I just have used that so many times. It's just smaller, as a lot of cracks are not just super parallel all the way in. I mean, if you're in Indian Creek, these are not that helpful. But in Yosemite, like a lot of cracks have piton scars and stuff, and like this is smaller in the back than the front of the crack. And it's nice when it just sits in there and it ends up touching all the points on your nuts. Run with that if you want. But I use that. And then my nut removal tool is just the Metolius kind. It's nice for... I pulled more cams out with this than I have nuts, mostly because I don't use nuts that often. And these are the Micro Nuts that I have. These are the original DMM Offset Nuts. They had different colors on the end there, which was kind of nice. But these are what you would be able to buy online today. It has the color on this crimped area here. Now, DMM sells normal Micro Nuts, but these Offset Nuts are absolutely amazing, especially for the piton scars where we have tons of them in Yosemite. Now, this is Black Diamond Micro Nuts. You can tell I pretty much have never found a place they fit because every crack these are going to go in are just more narrow at the back than the front. And so these are not tapered. You can tell that I've used this guy. But other than that, I always end up grabbing these guys, and that's why they looked all kinked up. And I love these things. Okay, these are my hooks. This is what makes big walling fun. These are just a couple grappling hooks. This is the Talon. Makes it super stable. Sometimes people have drilled, like, half-assed drilled a bolt hole intentionally for one of these to go into. Lost Arrows Fire Direct has this. And you just set that in there, and it just doesn't come out. I mean, you can bounce on it and everything. Super nice. Love the stability of those. This big grappling hook is nice for when you just don't want to do that 5'9", because you have 60 pounds of shit on you. Those are the hooks. Now, these are the cam hooks. I have never yet found a place that this fits that I'd want to use it. I don't even take it anymore. These big, big cam hooks are... I don't know. This is the Leaper cam hook. This is my go-to cam hook. It's either going to be this one or this one. And these go into a crack. If you don't know how to use these, they basically, they go on a crack, and the leverage is what keeps them in there. I've used these in pretty sketchy places, and my favorite is when you have a roof. Let's say that's my roof, and you have this crack. You set that in there, and it's an inverted cam hook. And that's just like you breathe wrong, and it falls out. We did that on the Zodiac, and as I was placing my next one, I'm just careful not to get my finger in there, this one would fall out as I'm placing it in there. And I fell forward on the nipple pitch for like 30 feet, and I just pulled up my daisy as fast as I could and threw in the next one, and I was... then this would fall out before I even weighted this. So scary. So awesome. Here are my rivet hangers. Now, you have different kinds, and this is nice. You pull on, you just clip to this side, and then it just cinches up tighter and tighter. Those are nice. This is a heavier duty one. Sometimes they, bolts just don't have hangers, and they just have, ideally, the nut on the end. So I mean, this goes over it, and then you just tighten over at that, and it's like, it's pretty snug. You can clip a quick draw to it, it's fine. A Lost Arrow, if you've got a Highline Lost Arrow Spire, you do need some of these. It's the same kind. That's just a normal loop, normal rivet hanger. It just sits on there, I mean, it's generally not going to come off. Sometimes the bolt has been drilled in, like, hammered into the wall too closely, and you need a super skinny one. But let me warn you about these. I ended up thinking these were just a bomber, clipped it around there, sat nicely, I'm on a bolt, and I'm on the Lost Arrow Spire Direct, and my last piece I was clipped to was basically the ledge, and it came down like this. So I clipped it, and I was kind of, like, standing, holding my own weight on stuff, and I was like, yeah, whatever, taking my daisies off. Then I sit on it, and it literally just undid itself. And then I fell past the ledge, slammed into the wall, and couldn't close my hand all day. So if you're going to use something super, super tiny, test it at home. Just body test it. So this one held when I body tested it. Super, super small. Anyways, I just have a ton of these self-tightening kind. I love them. And let's see here. These are really nice if you're trying to, like, leave it on there. It slips over like a key. And then this one, same thing. It's really nice when there's a really big head on the bolt, and then you can clip and treat this like a hanger. It's not something you leave on, but they're really nice to have handy. So if you're going to do some hardcore big walls, you can just take these. What's funny is you can just take these DMM nuts if you just have, like, one rivet you're going to deal with, slide that down, slip that over, and then just suck that up, and then just, there's your rivet hanger. You don't need all those fancy things if you're not going to be doing rivet ladders. Okay, here are my pitons that I basically never use. So this is your, no, that's a sawed off. This is an angled piton. It's your standard idea of what you think of when you see a piton. Now anything bigger than this, and I do have some bigger ones up there. A friend basically gifted me all those. I don't pretty much ever use them. I did buy the beaks. I did buy some lost arrows, but just, like, even that size, you can probably fit something else in there. It's just better to climb something clean. They call the rocks that are scarred, pitons scarred, because pitons damage this stuff. So, angled. This is a beak. Beaks are, you can actually use these to climb clean. You can just slot them into things and hope they hold. Ideally, they don't need to have a hammer to tap them back out after you weight them. I've never had to tap them back out, but these are super nice. I've got some big ones. I do take these when I climb hard stuff. These are roops. Very thin cracks. Pretty much all the thin cracks in Yosemite have been hammered out enough, so these more or less don't work unless you're climbing A4 stuff, but I have a couple and pretty damn thin, but those are when it gets dicey. Here's some blades. These are nice. I have used actually a couple of these for just ultra thin cracks. Sometimes you have to stack them. There's all sorts of tricks you can do with pitons. Here's lost arrow. Lost arrow piton. I have used these. It's nice for if you're on a roof for the stuff that I haven't climbed clean. Very rarely have I used these, but it's nice to just smash that in there and you know it fits. They often get stuck because you smash because you're scared instead of just what it needs. This is my sawed-off piton. You can basically see here that you cut off about two-thirds or half of the actual part that goes in the rock. By doing this, the rock is so scarred that it's shaped perfectly to this exact Brandon's shape and size piton. You cut that off, you grind off all the sharp angles, and then you can just literally set it in there. It just kind of cams in there. I just couldn't believe on the Zodiac how well that worked. It was some of my most bomber pieces on those pitches. There's just no reason to grab a big one and just start smashing it in there. Those are my pitons. Here are my copper heads. You have just like a wedge in the rock and it's not really a crack. You can technically smash these in there and they just kind of paste in there. The silver ones are aluminum heads. Copper is a little bit softer. Basically, the bigger ones are going to be aluminum. These are for horizontal cracks. This is the crimp that holds the two pieces together. Actually, that is. Then you would smash that in there and be pulling straight down on it. Because if you put something like this in there in a horizontal crack, you're going to rip it out. Anyways, you stick that in there, smash it in there. This has been used a couple times. I have rarely used these. I would think that I would have used this guy by now, which is pretty small, especially if you compare the two. But a lot of stuff has fixed gear. A lot of these kind of placements are fixed. Generally, people don't try to rip them out. People who want to have the rock pure the way it was before the first climbers were there and not have a bunch of tat on the wall. Well, if you're climbing El Capitan, it's not the original rock. Deal with it. This is what I use. It's just a nail punch It's not great for the bigger ones, but I could turn it around and hit that. But it's nice to be able to clip that to your harness. I just drilled a hole through it. It's just something you get at the hardware store, and it fits on your harness. I mean, this is for A3 plus or harder. Those are the copper heads. Finally, the gear everybody wants to see, the cams. These are my TCUs from Atolius. These were pretty much my first small cams I ever bought. They were okay when I had them. They have three lobes. This orange one I found. But this one has three lobes. They did come in four. Now, this is great because a lot of piton scars and stuff and cracks are just pockets and this fit. However, if compared to an alien, which I love my aliens, the width of the head is the same. Actually, the alien is the width of the lobes, and you don't have to have these weird sides there. So I never take these anymore, especially because these come in offset sizes. This is not an offset, but these just aren't... These are only like 50% useful compared to these things. These things just fit in everything you need them to, and they're super flexible. This is not flexible. They were an okay starter cam. I wouldn't recommend buying starter cams, and just save your money and buy the right ones, which are going to be your Black Diamond cams and your aliens. Don't go with shitty lower grade cams because you're going to end up just rebuying them all later. These are my C3s, Black Diamond C3s, and I just found out these are going to be discontinued. Oh no. Same thing. It's got three lobes. They're micro cams. I have used the 000. The 000 is pretty damn small. Justin ended up doing... He dynoed up to this overhanging roof, and then just shoved it in there, and he was all points off aid climbing because he's a little shorter, and he couldn't reach. He shoved this thing in there, and it held. So these can be nice, but they are discontinued. They're not that popular. I think they've got different varieties of things now. Aliens come in these sizes as well, and so I'm just going to use aliens unless I'm doing some really hard stuff that has a lot of variety. I don't really take these anymore. These carabiners are our camp's super small carabiners. They're too small to really fit in your hand well, and so I feel like I'm using a keychain carabiner. I mean, they're strong, but they're just a bitch to use. So I pretty much put them on this gear that I hardly ever use. The weight is maybe the same as those photon carabiners I like so much. I mean, I really don't like using these. If I'm going to have a carabiner, I want something I can grab, but these are my micro cams from Black Diamond. These are my C4 Black Diamond cams. These are single stem, dual axle pins there, so they have this wider range when you squeeze them to fit into more variety of crack sizes, and then this is... I lost one or dropped one or something. I had to buy another one, and these are what they come in now, and this is really nice because it's a lot more flexible. These are flexible if you make them flexible, but these are nice. These follow more of the alien design, which is just that single stem, and it's super nice. Kevlar, I think, is what the ropes are. A little accessory cord there to pull down. I love the thumb loops in all of these. It's super nice. When you're trying to hang on to stuff, you can flip it around and work with it. I bought these carabiners. These are the Black Diamond Neutron carabiners that come with or designed to go with these cams, so they're color-coordinated, but the Camp Photon carabiners I like so much come in colors, and so I purchased those for my dual set. I have doubles of these because they're my main cam that I use, and this is my number four and five if you're ever doing big stuff. This is actually not as stable as you think because the crack becomes so big that it can turn inside, especially if you're back cleaning, which is pretty common. You're climbing, and you bump it up a little. You don't bump this up straight. It'll turn on you. It's just as strong as the small ones, but it feels bummer. This is my big boy here. This has the same problem as the number five. Don't use it too often, but if you do need it, it's pretty ******* awesome. I hardly ever use this. Pretty cool. My Russian friend gave me this Russian cam. This is like a number five. This is a number six. I have also hardly used this, but it works pretty good. It's built well. These are ridiculous. These are called link cams. Sometimes you call them transformers. This is what a normal cam does. This is what this cam does. It has three different sets of lobes there. I call them my oh shit cams. You can basically grab this thing and just shove it into any crack when you're scared shitless on lead. It's going to fit. I've never had them come out on me. Sometimes they can be hard to take out, and so then it can get a little kinked. Nothing wrong with that. It's just well used, but you can really, really get a different size of range there. I do carry these with me and the C4s when I go lead climbing. Here is my most prized climbing possession, my alien cams. The Fixi aliens are really great because they're flexible. This metal is softer than other metals, and so it grips. The angle when you squeeze them, it just meets the crack so much better. The thumb loop fits great. They're super light, and the new ones are even lighter. It's crazy. I had to replace one recently, and I can't believe how nice they are. This is a hybrid. You can see by the sling and this, it's two different colors. This side is a little bit bigger than that side. The red matches that side, and the yellow matches that side. So when you have those offset cracks, those piton scars, you put the smaller side in first, and it just fits really, really good because not all cracks are parallel. These are so light, it's fine to have basically that entire thing sitting on your harness and lead climb with it. You literally have everything you need. These are my black diamond ascenders. I've got two sets because, well, I've always got a partner with me, and more times than not, they don't have ascenders. But these are just great ascenders. I end up putting a little accessory cord right here so I can clip my aid ladder right here, and then my daisy can go here. Otherwise, my aid ladder has to go in this hole here, and then my daisy would go on top. So I mean, it's not the end of the world. But these oval carabiners fit really nicely in there to hold the rope in place just as a backup. I've actually never had this just randomly open. I've never slid down a rope. But you're supposed to keep that on there, especially if you're going sideways. But these ovals are great. When you get into different shaped carabiners, they just don't sit in there very well. Somebody once thought these were magnets, and so I'm really excited to share what these are. These are 11 years of Yosemite passes. I buy the annual pass, which is substantially cheaper than paying $20 or $30 each time, because it's only $50, and $80 if you buy the all-national parks passes. So some of them aren't just Yosemite. Some of them are all-national parks. It depends on what year. But you can see there all the months that I go. I'm only missing one, because I was able to overlap with a friend's card. Otherwise, I have from 2005 on. These are Tiblocks. These are great for self-rescue. They basically have teeth in there. They're like an ascender without a handle. These things were great when I would connect them to the end of... I clip that to a piece when I'm on lead, and then clip that in there, preferably like a locker. The carabiner is what smashes the rope against the teeth. And then I would be able to sinew climb with my friend, and we were able to do the five open books, which is seven routes, 21 pitches, in less than 12 hours. And five of those hours is hiking back to the beginning to climb the next route. So we were doing like four pitches of 5.10 in a single pitch. I'm not even that confident of a climber, but not all sections are 5.10. It's just a few cruxes, and if you know to belay actively during those spots, you can go through the easier spots using this. Now this wasn't really tested. I kind of did it in the gym. The rope will run one way, but if the bottom person falls when you're sinew climbing, it rips the top person off the climb, and that would suck. So I found out Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell did this in some of their triple crown sinew climbs after I did it, which made me feel better about having done it. So you don't want to fall sinew climbing, but these are a great way to like mitigate the risk doing it, or have it for self-rescue since it's so light to have just this oh-shit ascender sit on your harness in the back. Headlamps, the number one cause of all my epics. So I have five here, and I actually have some more in my car, and I take them all when I go camping. Now something I have been doing is I just leave the batteries out, especially if I'm storing it. That way I know they're fresh and good when I do take them. But I mean, if I'm going to go on a lot of hikes we do now, we'll hike at night, then camp, then rig the next day, and so you're hiking at night. You really want to make sure you have headlamps. Or on the big walls, really sucks, happened twice, to have my leaders, the guy climbing, at night, because it always happens you end up climbing at night, their headlamp goes out. That sucks when they're 100 feet away from you. So yeah, lots of headlamps. You can buy them on Amazon for pretty cheap. If you're spending more than 35 bucks on a headlamp, it better be good. So redundancy is awesome when it comes to light. Now that whole section is full of these Metolius Adjustable Daisies. And being an idiot, when I first bought these, I clipped it to that part, which is the release, and not that part, which is what holds you. And so I tested it, and it didn't work. They sucked, and so I left them in my closet for a while. Come to find out, I love these things. Okay, so you just girth hitch this, or clip this to your harness, and then it locks really well. And if you need to adjust it, you just put your thumb in there, and you lift it up. And they have this little metal thing that connects it, like my hand is right now. This thing gets twisted up, and if you do this once, it's just a nightmare of a mess. So I take 10 snips, cut that off carefully. I don't ever have problems. I think that's a terrible design. And then I get rid of that metal ring they have. Well, this is the part that holds that stupid metal thing. I put that little thing there. That's not going to hold much, but I don't need it to hold much. Sometimes when I'm just super far away from my piece, and I'm reaching way back there, and I just need to pull it and get it started, it's just nice to be able to pull that side. Anyways, these Metolius Adjustable Daisies are awesome. I do warn against using these on rigging highlines, depending on where they're rigged. Because if you're standing on a cliff, and then you go off the edge, and take a shock load to this thing, and it's the only thing holding you, it might break, and you might die. My friend Justin Smested, he was using one of these, and he was over the edge of the rostrum, back before we knew not to put our master point three feet out. And it was rubbing the rock edge. I know, not smart. But it happened, and it cut halfway through, and it was the only thing holding him. If you're really working near a cliff edge, be clipped into something super bomber, or have some redundancy on being tightened. So these Petzl, so Petzl has an adjustable daisy, and it's got a full rope on there, and that makes me feel better. Sew in loop for girth hitching it to your harness. You can kind of adjust it. It's not as easy, but it's more burly. This is something you could fall over an edge, and it'll probably hold you. I don't like how short this is, because I think they make something longer, but this should reach at least beyond what I can reach, something tippy toes or something. So one of my options is to basically just cut off this rope, and put on something longer, and be able to actually just tie in with a figure eight, which might be nice. And then just tie a stopper knot on the side. I think they do sell longer ones, or ones that have two ropes coming off of like a single point, like two lanyards. So they're okay. I don't use it that often. I don't use this big walling, that's for sure. These are my Petzl Prusik anchors. So you tie into this, or you girth hitch that, and then that knot right there, just google how to Petzl Prusik. It's just kind of more or less a stopper knot. And then you have this loop here, and it's super long and adjustable. And this is really nice when you're working near a cliff edge, because I mean, you can be super far away from what you're tied off to, and be able to work in a big range. And if you fall on this, it will slip a little, which is nice because it'll absorb the shock before it cinches up. Not much, it's not like a dynamic rope. It just absorbs a little. So Petzl Prusik, check them out, see if that's something you'd want to use. Problem is, you can't get super close if you're trying to get like a tight daisy. I like to combine this with my Metolius daisies. So if I need like control, I get this. And if I want distance, I can have that. Here's some other daisies. These are just a bunch of chain link loops sewn together. And this is like a kind of old school daisy. And this, if you clip it wrong, you can pop that stitching out and you die. But it's got a lot more adjustability than the loop kind. I don't use this as often. I usually attach these to my haul bags. I prefer this more. I feel like this is stronger and I can do different tricks with it. It can be used as an anchor. It's just nice to have a bunch of loops. Just a good old chalk bag here. But my climbing knives are pretty cool. I taped this because I don't want it to open when I don't want it to open. But this is nice. It's just a knife carabiner. I used to have one back when I was climbing and I found one cheap, so I bought it. But this is my go-to knife today. It's from Trango. I think it's Piranha. It doesn't open if there's a carabiner on it. And it's super, super light. So you do have to have an extra carabiner, whereas that one kind of has a built-in carabiner. But super nice blade. It's all the purposes I need it to. So you're not going to spread peanut butter with it, but it doesn't open if I have that carabiner on there. Super nice. These are just some black diamond climbing helmets that I put Velcro here. This was pretty cool. When I climbed in the summer, I'd have a rag that this part would actually be attached to, and I could put it on if it got hot, and then it would protect my neck. So that was a cool trick for this. Got your GoPro mount. Confession time. I actually high-lined with this back in the day, mostly because I was doing walk-offs and I thought if I hit the cliff, you know, swung back into the cliff, this would be nice. Yeah, that looked really retarded. So don't do walk-offs. If you can't do walk-offs, and you don't need helmets. Kim and I have the Arcteric harnesses for, well, high-lining and climbing now. I do have a big wall harness in the garage, and that's really nice if you're doing rope swings or a lot of cliff work rigging, or big walls. But these are super nice because they just super flat right there. It just goes right up against your back. However, it's pretty thin. So if you're in this is great for high-lining because you're not really in your harness very long. You're not in your harness at all if you don't win. So super lightweight. It doesn't reduce your mobility. These are not cheap. $60 to $90, whereas a normal harness would be like $30. I like it. It's a great harness if you're not going to be in it for a long period of time. The climbing shoes that I have are the La Sportiva Mythos. They're all around. I'm not going to climb anything hard enough that require my toes to be pointed down. Yeah, screw that. So I actually wear socks, a thin pair of socks with this because I'm usually crack climbing. You don't need to feel your feet when you're crack climbing. And yeah, I don't want to feel my feet. So I like, and it keeps it from smelling bad when you have a sock. And if you're going to be in this for 12 hours, this is like the shoe to have. Small climbing slings are great. One thing I do for big walling is I take this thing, girth hitch it through my big wall harness, and then I connect one of those Camp Photon carabiners I love so much. This acts for me like a Fifi hook. I just like using the carabiner instead. It's super easy for me to put on and off. The nose is really narrow. And then that's just super flexible and I can like stand up high on an overhang and stuff. So that's what I use that for. And the first thing and the last thing you want on your anchor when you're big walling is the bag. You need to be able to anchor to something once the bag gets up to an anchor, but you don't want it smashing all your gear because it's not, it's the last thing that's going to leave that anchor. So what I do is I actually just girth hitch this directly onto a climbing hanger. We're not doing much with it other than just clipping the bag temporarily to it until we could lift other stuff up and back it up. The bag is always tied off to multiple things, but this makes sure that the bag isn't on top of all the other stuff smashing it down. These nylon slings are great for that. These are just some pro-tips. So when you're repelling, you can wrap it around the rope a couple of times and go back down, clip to that, and you have to manually lower that or squeeze it so it doesn't lock up when you're repelling. Repelling feels so sketchy to me because there's no redundancy generally. And if one rope breaks or one anchor point breaks, you're done. But this does make me feel a lot better. And always put a stopper knot in the bottom of your rope, even if you think it's touching the ground. I almost repelled off the end of a rope once, literally had that much rope left and didn't know it. Then I looked down to see where my rope was and I couldn't find it and I realized it was in my hand and I was on an ATC with no pressing on a very, very vertical surface, 400 feet in the air. I'm glad I'm here. So take repelling serious and use these. Quick draws. Oh, Camp Photon carabiners. Shocker. These are my big wall anchors. So when you get up to a climb, you have like four locker carabiners chilling right there. You get up there, you got two for the hangers. And then I like to have double strands, figure eight, super bomber, because when you're jugging, it's like the only thing you're on. You want it to be pretty bomber. And then I just make it so you can just do that. And then it just opens up really easily when you get up there. How I tie that so it stays nice and neat is you just take the loop, you just put loops inside of each other. And I like to make sure they're tight because then you get a tighter weave. And then you can clip that to your harness, you fold it in half and it's pretty, pretty small. These are my slings. Let me start with these guys. These are the new Mammut slings. They're built like a span set where the core, it might be Dyneema, goes around and around and around and around and around. And this outside sheath protects it much like a span set. But they're like super, super stiff. I have to have rubber bands on them just so they stay nice and neat on the wall. I hardly ever use them because they're just so stiff. But they're 30% stronger and 30% more abrasion resistant. So depending what you're rigging, this actually can be pretty nice. However, these are the Dyneema slings. And this is nice. You just, shoulder length slings, you just climb with it, take them off as you need. A photon camp, photon carabiner. Imagine that. Now, these double length slings, the way I keep these is at shoulder length, but I don't want to mix these up with my shoulder length. And so I fold it in half so I can extend it out pretty easily. But what I do is I just take it, fold it in half, grab that loop, extend it out. And this keeps it from getting in my way. Some people just clip it to their harness like this, or they'll go through like that and they just have this kind of a cluster. But the way I keep mine nice and neat is I take this and I take my two hands and I just go, it doesn't take that long. And it has a nice curl to it. So it fits on your harness. It stays nice and tight. And if you do need it, you just can put your finger in there and straighten it out real quick, or just take one of the strands and then just extend it out. And then on the side here, I have some climbing ropes. I got a 9.4 dynamic rope for if I'm doing Alpine stuff. 8 mil static rope, which is nice if you're not, just really nice to have a skinny static rope. I ended up jugging half dome, not with that rope. It tore the shit out of it. Jugged like most a half dome. My friend led most of it on an 8 mil. That was scary. And then I just have another dynamic rope up there. Well, I can't believe I can talk for 45 minutes about one side and 45 minutes on that side of just the gear I've got. 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