What's your favorite stopper?
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What's your favorite brand/style stopper? Any particular type of metal (or plastic)? Any thoughts on using tricams passively in place of large nuts on a trad rack? And, who makes the best micros? |
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BD #4 RP for sure. That thing has made me feel safe and backed it up by catching a few big falls! |
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#7 HB Offset. Hands down. I carry an extra one at all times. Works on every pitch. Made by DMM now. |
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I'll tell anybody that will listen that Sentinel nuts are by far my favorites. They are totally basic, straight sided, with long cables. I think Tom Frost himself still makes them.At the scary crux of Rincon, you can use the long cable to snake in a bomber overhead for the hard move. They've literally saved my ass a few times. |
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Joe Huggins wrote:I'll tell anybody that will listen that Sentinel nuts are by far my favorites. They are totally basic, straight sided, with long cables. I think Tom Frost himself still makes them.At the scary crux of Rincon, you can use the long cable to snake in a bomber overhead for the hard move. They've literally saved my ass a few times.+1. can't say enough good things about the design. those straight sides seem to really offer security against rope drag, etc. accidentally whipping the stopper out. clean nice too. i often get weird looks & comments from people wondering why i don't have curved nuts (note: still talking about stoppers), but since switching to straight sides i'll never go back. |
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Any of the big DMM alloy offsets. things are money. too bad they cost so much of it! |
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DMM Wallnuts. The little groove helps keep them from ripping out or lifting out as you climb by. Was doubtful when I first used them on a friends rack. |
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Any of the DMM Alloy offset nuts. DMM Peenuts as well. I never leave the ground without them. |
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Pink tri-cam and #2 rp. |
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Ed Wright wrote:Pink tri-cam and #2 rp.ouch! i have placed & loved my #2 rp (aussie original) but never ever wanted to -or have--popped on it. it is a wonderful peice when you need it, but man it scares the $h!T out of me to think of whipping on that one! guess that motivates me to climb thru... so i guess that alone make it a great stopper. |
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#5 brass HB offset. Golden! |
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The one that stopped me? |
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full set of offsets and peanuts ... tricams from 0.25 to 3 act as a second set of larger nut or camalot doubles ... |
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I stopped carrying larger than the #10 BD stopper. The tri-cams are much better and they can double as cams in the large sizes as well. On NC granite they are perfect for flares. I carry from .25-3.5. I also like to supplement with some of the WC rocks in the mid-range. My favorite stopper is the #5 BD. |
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I like Forest Pnuts. |
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In order of favoriteness: |
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Metolius #6 |
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DMM peanuts. Got a set of these a couple months ago based on some recommendations on here. I'm already completely sold on them. |
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DMM offsets! |
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Metolius #5. Seems like there's a spot for it on every trad route I do. |
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Knots for the sandstone in the Bohmische Schweiz. They actually seem to work good |