How many cams in your rack

How many cams do you climb with on a normal outing?

Obviously route dependent, but I’ve probably got 8-14 cams ranging from BD .4 to 4 equivalents, as well as one set of nuts and one set of dmm offset nuts. The nuts are light, so I almost always carry them. On shorter routes without much variation, I might only take up 6 cams. On long, multi pitch routes with lots of different crack sizes and shapes, I might take up a lot. 

17 cams and 5 tricams

Edit: I own probably 3 or 4 times that many cams.  This is just the standard rack.

I have 7 (Dragon 2's blue-blue). My regular partner has a rack of C4's plus a full set of TCU's. We usually carry my Dragons, his TCU's, and 3-4 of his C4's as doubles. So 14-16 at most?

For long easy "adventure" style routes we might carry a single rack of cams and some big hexes to save weight. 

Always rack for the climb.  Could be 2, could be 20.  

For single pitch 6 cams and like 7 nuts for multi-pitch probably 10 to 12 cams and 7 nuts.

Jaren Watson wrote: I thought I was on a first ascent last week, but when I got near the top, I found an old pin. I can’t find any information about it.

All I know is it’s a 15’ off-hands to fist crack, and I placed 16 cams. I would have placed more, but the climbing was easy so I just ran it out.

Dude, that's reckless. I don't care how easy the climbing is, you never know when a hold is going to break and send you plummeting.

Briggs Lazalde wrote: I own 32 cams. And I only want more.

Do I rack all that? You bet I do. And when I send single pitch at sunshine wall, I make sure I take my ascenders, belay seat, and aiders so noobs know that I'm the real deal

Only 32? I feel like I’ve seen you buy at least 20 black totems!

17
doubles .3-3
single .2, .2/.3, and 4
Nuts

I've been a able to get up a surprising amount of stuff with just 4 cams.
(1) .75 C4
(2) 1 C4
(1) 3 Technical Friend
But I also supplement most routes with some smaller nuts and hexes, as well as pink and red tricams

Depends, but often, as many as 20,
 & small wires,(&#s1&2 wired hexs)
1 Clog Cob(2.5 friend size)

For "hammer time" not a bail piece

I'm tripled up & carry triples in the 3 small tricams too (1 or 2 have been modified)

 I've been adding more pro,  as my weight has increased &, the grade of the climbs & number I do has decreased.

Usually all cams, I hardly ever use nuts anymore. 

20. doubles from .5 - 2  triples in .5, 1, and 2. i have singles from .4 - .2 and 3 - 6. 3 tricams, two nut sets, a talon hook, and a ballnut

Normal trad multi-pitch I´d take maybe 6 or so.

This is our normal trad rack that we take on multi-pitch climbs. If we go to Vedauwoo, then we would take a couple of larger pieces and get rid of the smaller nuts and aliens.

Jim Titt wrote: Normal trad multi-pitch I´d take maybe 6 or so.

Just enough for two trad anchors. Perfect!

Suburban Roadside wrote: Depends, but often, as many as 20,
 & small wires,(&#s1&2 wired hexs)
1 Clog Cob(2.5 friend size)

For "hammer time" not a bail piece

I'm tripled up & carry triples in the 3 small tricams too (1 or 2 have been modified)

 I've been adding more pro,  as my weight has increased &, the grade of the climbs & number I do has decreased.

I thought that I was the only one that still had Clog Cogs.

Use these for Christmas decorations

6-20 plus a single set of stoppers (brand varies with my mood but lately metolius UL) plus a few bigger brassies (3-6). Mix of totems (black-red) and master cams (1-4 or 00-4 usually) for most things plus a C4 #2 and/or 3. I don't usually expect fixed anchors but I find the above accounts for that.

 Depending on if the route is onsight maybe the green, yellow, and grey aliens come too or a C4 #4. Harder routes get more small stuff usually unless it is known to have wider stuff. Once I have things wired I pare it down but don't go completely with the exact set because I sometimes forget or miss a prior placement and would rather carry a little more than be hosed.

I have 16 cams I usually rack 6 - 10 plus nuts and sometimes hexes.

Oldtradguy wrote:

I thought that I was the only one that still had Clog Cogs.

Romano has 'em and uses them on every climb.

Needless to say, rack for the specific climb. But on most varied multi pitch I'll bring doubles in .2 - 3, one .1, a set of nuts, and 2 larger hexes. So roughly 18 cams supplemented with passive pro. And about 10-14 alpine draws.

This is all personal preference, so bring whatever makes you feel good. When I was getting into trad and slowly building my rack I had many occasions where I ran out of gear and had a difficult time building anchors and also had to run it out, so now I (admittedly) bring a lot of gear up. Also, I usually climb in Eldo and having a varied rack comes in handy.