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?

BD #4 RP for sure. That thing has made me feel safe and backed it up by catching a few big falls!

I also like: Metolius Brassies, the BD line in general, and the DMM nuts.

For micros, I'd either go BD or Metolius.

#7 HB Offset. Hands down. I carry an extra one at all times. Works on every pitch. Made by DMM now.

ive climbed with most of them and have settled on the Ultralight Metolius Curve Nuts and the HB Offsets (originals)- brass and alloy.

I have found that some places tend to take certain types of stoppers slightly better than others, so if there's a predominant style of stopper in your area, it may be worth checking out, depending.

Otherwise, like cams, its all personal preference.

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.

Any of the big DMM alloy offsets. things are money. too bad they cost so much of it!

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.

Any of the DMM Alloy offset nuts. DMM Peenuts as well. I never leave the ground without them.

Pink tri-cam and #2 rp.

#5 brass HB offset. Golden!

The one that stopped me?

I like the DMM HB knock offs, both aluminum and brass. I supplement those with BDs and whatever the booty Gods have deigned to give me.

full set of offsets and peanuts ... tricams from 0.25 to 3 act as a second set of larger nut or camalot doubles ...

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.

I like Forest Pnuts.

In order of favoriteness:

The #8 BD yellow stopper.
The yellow DMM offset (this will soon take the #1 spot).
The #4 BD gray stopper.

Metolius #6

DMM peanuts. Got a set of these a couple months ago based on some recommendations on here. I'm already completely sold on them.

DMM offsets!

Metolius #5. Seems like there's a spot for it on every trad route I do.

Knots for the sandstone in the Bohmische Schweiz. They actually seem to work good

Saxon sandstone stopper Submitted By: Owen Darrow on Aug 22, 2011

the one that i just fell on....

the one that was fixed for years on the 4th pitch of Super Slab.

It's not really a stopper, more of a cork, but the popper on a bottle of Schrammsberg Blanc de Blanc