Pins For Mountaineering?

I have heard it is a good idea to add a few pins to your rack for winter mountaineering. How many and of what variety would yall recommend? This would be in addition to stoppers, screws, etc

I've never brought them mountaineering, but bring them religiously on mixed alpine routes. Anyway, I usually bring anywhere from 3-5 pins, depending on terrain/rock.... bugaboos and knifeblades being the mainstay, maybe 1-2 lost arrows, maybe a baby angle in place of the larger LA. A deftly swung pick can often weld a small stopper in a placement for an LA or baby angle, so maybe just bring a bugaboo or knifeblade, but again for general mountaineering I don't see the weight justification.

HTH.

Same as above, but I don't bother with lost arrows. Too heavy. You can bash a nut into the same crevice that would fit a LA.

check out ushba's titaniums, generally carry 4-6; and 3 blades. Really ideal for those dime-thin seams.

Mark Nelson wrote:check out ushba's titaniums, generally carry 4-6; and 3 blades. Really ideal for those dime-thin seams.

Mark, do you regularly climb with the Ushba pins? How reuseable are they? I used a couple ti pins about 15yrs ago (not Ushba) and those suckers were like the soft steel pins of yesteryear.... meaning they got welded in place easily, or only had a handful of placements in their lifespan because of the amount of abuse it took to get them out.

NWAlpine has some russian ones. Not sure if they're from Ushba or not.

Titanium Pins and Screws

The disclaimer at the bottom is interesting.

that the most awesome disclaimer ever. long live the federation