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Beginners Trad rack recommendations? 28-Jan-2013 At 12:25:13 AM phillipivan

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>I have to disagree here Stu. Being a gear whore I had a set of DMM walnuts,
>WC rocks and BD stoppers. That was until I received a set of the DMM offsets
>and peenuts. I love them and find they go in anywhere any of the other
>stoppers go though excel in weird shaped placements, anywhere.... I've
>since sold the Rocks and Wallnuts and I only kept the BD stoppers because
>they were a gift from my wife;)

Shit, this reminds me of my job, and the wonderful saying 'opinions are like like arseholes...'. Which is to say Mikey, Im not convinced of the general purpose utility offsets for three reasons, (a) when I climb with them I use them, but when I climb without I make do just fine a very great majority of the time, (b) generally speaking offset nuts don't offer as useful endwise placements (c) some normal nuts like WC rocks have a taper that fits gently flaring cracks in an endwise orientation, and so offers some of the utility of an offset.

If you must get RPs or similar just get sizes 2 through 4, the smallest and largest aren't so useful.

I agree with ODH about C4s being most useful from .75 up, except if you climb with totem cams (great), in which case revise that to 2 and up. Which for a starting rack probably means just 2 & 3.

If your going to get Hexes, get the DMM ones, there are only 4, with long slings, the colour coding matches C4 cams, and they are a good shape.