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Any better ways to store & carry a rack

TimP

4-Feb-2015
3:52:57 PM

Just wondering what other people do. I clip my gear onto a sling loop in groups and dump the whole thing into a backpack to store and carry. It's all laid out nicely when I sort and check it at the end of the day, but turns into a huge, wire-bending tangle every time I lift it into or out of my pack. Then I can't easily get to / find the bits I'm after when racking up my harness to climb. There has got to be a better way.

ajfclark

4-Feb-2015
3:58:45 PM

I use a collection of old booty slings that I wouldn't trust for anything else to organise my gear.

Passive pro goes get clipped onto one, the remainder of the sling gets wrapped around it and the little package gets dropped into my bag. Cams are on another sling, remainder of the sling gets wrapped around and then popped into my bag. Draws go onto another sling and then into a old rice bag like the one below. Misc cordelette, nuts tools, belay devices, lockers, etc go on a fourth sling.

I've recently started using other cloth bags for the other 3 slings and that seems a bit of an improvement. Certainly makes it all a little neater when I chuck it in the boot of the car and makes less of a mess when I need to pull something else out of my pack.

Sabu

4-Feb-2015
3:59:17 PM

I tend to clip groups of gear (eg nuts, quickdraws, slings & cams) together and separately throw them into my pack.That way you can just pull bits and pieces out of your pack easily and rack up as you go. A consequence of this is that you do sometimes have to dig around in your pack to find some things but I hate storing my rack on my harness and even more so on a gear sling so this works for me!

When I'm on a trip everything lives in my pack. When I'm home it all lives in a crate in my gear cupboard.

Decoy

4-Feb-2015
4:12:11 PM

Mountain Tools make the "California Roll" - https://www.mtntools.com/cat/mt/necess/mt_caroll.htm

If you're handy with a sewing machine you could make your own.

martym

4-Feb-2015
5:25:10 PM

On 4/02/2015 Decoy wrote:
>Mountain Tools make the "California Roll" - https://www.mtntools.com/cat/mt/necess/mt_caro
>l.htm
>
>If you're handy with a sewing machine you could make your own.

Or just get an old towel / sheet and clip the biners to it.

I find clipping all biners & draws together in one big chain makes it easy to move, you could then clip one set of gear to each link in the chain - folded carefully it should just roll out...

At home I have a big material bucket thing that ee dump all gear into, then fossil out what we need or take the whole bucket.

barefootbushman

4-Feb-2015
7:12:57 PM

I recently modified an old harness into a gear sling. I cut the leg loops and the buckles off, tied it into a loop and viola. It gives you separate segments to clip gear onto. Although, it may not be the most space efficient idea, I think it works well.

IdratherbeclimbingM9

4-Feb-2015
8:41:50 PM

On 4/02/2015 TimP wrote:
>Just wondering what other people do. I clip my gear onto a sling loop in
>groups and dump the whole thing into a backpack to store and carry. It's
>all laid out nicely when I sort and check it at the end of the day, but
>turns into a huge, wire-bending tangle every time I lift it into or out
>of my pack. Then I can't easily get to / find the bits I'm after when racking
>up my harness to climb. There has got to be a better way.

All laid out nicely...
~> Why not do that again when you want to rack up your harness?

I leave certain items on my harness for the most part (prusiks, belay device, chalk bag, nut tool, quick draws in two small groups and free krabs in two small chains).
The nuts and cams go on the gear loop.
The slings are all clipped to one krab.
~> The above three groups get stuffed into the day pack.

If care is taken in the stuffing, the wires don't suffer...

Aid rack?
~> That is what haul-bags are for!
Heh, heh, heh.

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