Favorite discontinued gear

5.10 daescent

• 1st gen Kong Helium bent and straight gates!
• U-bottom camalots (and black for #4 - why did they change that?)
• Hexes with 5.5 stiff spectra cord
• Wild Things everything, especially Andinista
• Black Diamond X harness (for the first six months of use) because you could take responsibility for finally getting gear loops right
• Rock Bottoms
• Scarpa Superatz
• Five Tennies (the real ones) and the better version that La Sportiva produced 'Boulder'
• Yellow evazote in 5mm and 10mm in CAD - cheap!
• Any color you want in 9/16" supertape in stock at the local store
• Patagonia duckbill cap
• patagonia fingerless gloves
• First gen patagonia Bag Gi pants
• 1st gen river shorts (drop a folded USGS straight into the pocket because no top flap)
• Whatever the metolius harness was before the 3-D Contour
• TCUs without teeth
• black petzl strings

L Kap wrote:

Cherokee, Miles, Buck Rio, other fans of the Ballet Golds, have you found another similar shoe to replace them? Resoled Ballet Golds were my replacement for Tradmasters, and I'm going to need to move on to another model here soon. I enjoy a wide, stiff, all-day-comfort lace-up shoe with an L-shaped heel (not C-shaped) and rounded toe box. Any leads are appreciated! 

Butora mantras are board lasted. They're low tops but they have different widths. I want to say some acopa shoes are board lasted too but don't quote me on that. 

In the approach shoe category: LaSportiva Superfly.  I have an old pair that are in need of a resole, but I'm afraid they'll disintegrate.

Petzl Meteo: indestructable helmet for caving and wet canyons
The previous version of the Petzl canyon harness, why a metal ring on the new one??
The purple Mythos, I miss the purple
Haglofs tight Evo size large backpack, really cool skiing pack
Arcteryx Theta AR Jacket, do they still make a jacket that cover your butt while shredding powder?

But to be honest most of the modern gear is much improved compare to what we had even just 20 years ago

• Boreal Vectors.  I just found a pair of 1st generation(?) Boreal Silexes, which fit similarly, but of course they appear to be no longer making them.
• Original (and indestructible) Black Diamond Spot headlights
• Arc'teryx Khamsin packs (light and indestructible)
• Marmot windshirts

Anything made by A5. Love my old haul bag. 

There is a brand new pair of the old style Guide Tennie on Ebay right now.  Size 12.   There was a size 10.5 but I just snapped those up for $50

purple #4 Camalot, for calf lock cracks. 

I really like the original rope runner 

As much as people seem to love these, they also love to leave them as bail booty. 

Cherokee Nunes wrote:

From butora website re the Altura:

from Butora webside re the Mantra:

Thanks Greg. I will definitely check the Mantra at some point.

As you figured out-

The Mantra is board lasted. The Altura is not.. 

the Mantra is super stiff- pretty comfortable shoe especially if you’ve got wide feet.. not a fan of Butora rubber.

I can’t get confirmation- but my pair of Acopa JBs appear to be board lasted as well..

I have seen it written that the “mantra is the only board lasted shoe being made” so maybe the JB is not?? 

5.10 Zlippers 

Circa 1997? 

What ever happened to wild things sewn runners and backpacks? 

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hands down the product I still go out of my way to find and acquire (nearly impossible anymore) is the Mjollnir hammer created by Forrest Mountaineering of Boulder, CO back in  the seventies.  I've owned four of these, and I do not lend the one I have now.  The previous three were mysteriously "lost" by partners who'd "borrowed" them.  the Mjollnir was, to my knowledge, the world's first modular hammer / .ice-tool, with three interchangeable picks.  With the Skye pick, similar to the Macinnes Terrordactyl, Mjollnir performed decades ahead of its time -- it is still my preferred "third tool" for long ice/alpine climbs, performing quite respectably against such modern mainstays as Petzl's nomic, or DMM's Rebel or Switch.  the problem is that the tool has been out of production for nearly forty years, so last few years I''ve had to repurpose picks from other tool systems to keep mine operational.  Every few years I post an offer to buy any skye picks someone might come across in dad's or grandad's stash, or an estate sale, and the offer still stands.

Marmot Alpinist Climbing Jacket

Wild Country Forged Friends

Stoppers that weren't anodized different colors

A5 Bigwall Gear Sling and Belay Seat

Petzl Attaché (round stock)

Black Diamond Livewire and Big Easy (bent/straight/locking were all great...if they had a key lock version Id be all over it)

Five.Ten hightops (Guide Tennie?  I got them in 2000)

Integral Designs Salathe Bivi Sack

Ryan Bowen wrote:

As much as people seem to love these, they also love to leave them as bail booty. 

last carabiner I would leave when bailing, unless I seriously needed to make an offering to the mountain gods in order to achieve safe passage to the ground

Brian R wrote:

last carabiner I would leave when bailing, unless I seriously needed to make an offering to the mountain gods in order to achieve safe passage to the ground

What makes it better, is that the harder of the two routes was a 10c, and both have top anchors you can walk to. Absolutely no reason to need to leave gear. Maybe I can find that person and catch them after they bail off a silent partner 

Ryan Bowen wrote:

What makes it better, is that the harder of the two routes was a 10c, and both have top anchors you can walk to. Absolutely no reason to need to leave gear. Maybe I can find that person and catch them after they bail off a silent partner 

I would definitely make it a point to learn their climbing schedule and follow shortly after to clean up after them.