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Buying a Trad Rack 4-Feb-2014 At 9:53:17 AM nmonteith

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On 4/02/2014 Wendy wrote:
>Meh, I've climbed on a double (occasionally triple) set of wc rocks for
>25 years. I like the consistancy and rather not, oh shit, i've use my only
>5 rock already ... It's like the offsets argument. Once in a blue moon
>I might find a slightly better placement with an offset of a different
>brand, but no where near enough to justify carrying them.

Each to their own. From my experience having two different brands on a rack is very useful. My choice is a single set of normal WC rocks and half a set of Offsets. For me I would say a quarter of the time I can not make a normal WC fit snugly, and then try the Offset option and that works way better. Especially on podded cracks found at Araps, Gramps and Point Perp. Offsets are not very useful at places like Frog or the Bluies with a majority of parallel cracks.