What kind of stick clip do you use?

I used a stick clip for the first time and decided to buy one for myself now.

I borrowed a trango beta stick. Would barely hold the gate open on my draws but loved the compact telescoping pole which was super easy to pack.

What kinds do you guys use?

Super clip on an extendible painter pole from lowes. Everyone is jealous of my sweet stick clip. It's like 16 feet long.

Superclip: Effective, robust and simple. This stick clip is great, and it's also the cheapest purpose made stick clip on the market (i think).

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I use the Epic stick clip. It is great in that it folds up and fits in my backpack. It's not so great in that it bends like a rubber noodle once you get it fully extended with a rope and draw on it. If you need a clip for your local crag, a painters pole and clamp is the way to go. If you need something light and portable, the Epic stick clip gets it done.

None. That would be cheating.

Painters pole with a spring clamp on the end.

Stick clipping is cheap insurance over ankle breaking.

regular ol spring clamp from the hardware store on a 12' light bulb changing pole. Having an 8' reach, its 20' of sport wanking pleasure.

Eric LaRoche wrote:Painters pole with a spring clamp on the end. Stick clipping is cheap insurance over ankle breaking.

I also vote for the superclip

Spring clamp FTW!

Easy to put the draws on, a couple of different methods you can use to take draws off, super easy to reclip a draw that's already hanging. Best all around stick clip end you can use IMO.

A stick laying around the belay somewhere and climbers tape.

Appalachian Stick clip.
A stick to go through the draw sleeve and a short stick to hold the gate open....Real Fancy!

Trango Squid.

16 ft painters pole and a Trango Squid. Some people don't like the Squid, those people are not patient enough to learn how to use it.

The pole doubles as a hiking stick. Forgot to bring your rope gun? It has a loop in the bottom for when you need to haul it up the route to rescue your gear.

I have two one for frontcoutry stuff and one for backcountry:
-Painters pole, spring clamp held onto end with athletic tape.
-Tent pole, spring clamp held onto end with athletic tape, 6 mm cod also tied to spring clip end and secured with tape (so you can steady stick with it and pull the stick once clipped).

I don't do a lot of stick clipping but have a Trango Squid & a painter's pole, which I now like. My first experience with it was not good, primarily because we attempted to use it on a high angle slab. Works well on vertical or overhanging terrain.

My initial impression:"Wanted to like this..." 08/25/14

We bought this specifically to clip the 18-22+ foot high first bolts on a couple of routes in Wood's Quarry in Boulder. These routes are up a 75 degree smooth slab and falling would mean a long slide down and landing on broken rock. Hence, the stick clip. Clipping the 1st bolt with the Squid was pretty easy but when we tried to attach the rope, it easily slid through the Squids rope arms & made looping the carabiner impossible. To be fair, this was complicated by the fact that the quickdraw was lying against the face of the cliff (being a slab). We then attempted to unclip the quickdraw from the bolt using the Squid and were able to open the gate but couldn't get the carabiner in the right position to get it off the bolt. . At any rate, we finally just climbed up & unclipped, pretty much defeating the whole purpose of using the Squid in the first place.Probably works better on vertical/overhanging terrain & if you practice using it first, which I foolishly did not do...

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I have the super clip, and since I work construction it has varied in size... at one point it was 24' long which meant on all my short bouldery projects in maple I was able to clip the chains from the ground hahaha I was a gumby. I now prefer the trango beta stick for it's compact-ability and lightweight design.

Jim Fox wrote: These routes are up a 75 degree smooth slab and falling would mean a long slide down and landing on broken rock. Hence, the stick clip. Clipping the 1st bolt with the Squid was pretty easy but when we tried to attach the rope, it easily slid through the Squids rope arms & made looping the carabiner impossible.

Have the squid. Prefer the super clip. Others I know who have had the squid have since moved on as well. Its fine, but causes people trouble on vert or less-than-vert walls - it just doesn't hold the gate open strongly enough to withstand bumping/scraping against the rock on the way up to clip.

Leif E wrote: why didn't you just thread the rope through the draw on the ground before you attempted to clip it to the bolt...??

I made one out of an old pool skimmer pole and a spring clamp from the hardware store, but I think I've only used it once. I either forget it or just don't bring it because I don't feel like carrying it. Also, I have crazy long arms so I can often clip the first bolt either from the ground or just off the ground (because I mainly climb at Rumney and there is a bolt every 5 feet).