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Marking Gear - Nail Polish? 13-Apr-2011 At 10:50:06 PM Jimi

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On 13/04/2011 Climboholic wrote:
>I don't see a need to mark gear. You usually only use one rack at a time
>anyway.

So far (and I'm still very much the bumblie) there have been several occasions where individually marked gear has or would have been advantageous.

While my climbing partner has a pretty full trad rack, I'm still putting mine together so we sometimes share gear or we both have identical items. Depending on what/where we're climbing, there are some routes where he leads and may want to double up on specific nuts etc. or there's not enough beta to tailor a rack to the climb and wants to carry more just in case.

Also, after the MD & Rock Hardware sales of late, there's lots of my mates that have stocked up on the same or very similar gear.

I just want to be able to trace my gear, log it's history and be confident on what's happened to it and when it needs retiring.