[Jim]

What shit do you have in your bouldering bag?

Mine:
2 pair boots
digital camera
2 guinness beer towels
tube of superglue
tape
chalk bag
2 toothbrushes
large brush
loose chalk in bottom  

[dave]

2(+) pair of boots
1(+) Peperami
1 digital camera
1 telephoto lens
1 spare hat
1 tub of 400mg ibuprofen
1 little green deathbag, containing:
1 guiness bartowel ("obtained" from Kim)
1 stiff scrubbing brush
1 tube loctite
1 roll fingertape
1 piece fine sandpaper
1 chalkbag
1 stress squeezer (got free at a grad recruitment fair)
1 toothbrush with all the bristles worn away
1 3/4ltr sigg sports bottle (& in summer 1ltr pop bottle with mixture of fresh orange, water and a pinch of salt)

bouldering mat contains:
1 brushstick
1 boreal carpet

+ other food and clothes as required.

[dobbin]

I don't have a bag that has a regular contents, more a boot that has all my climbing possesions in - and there are too many to list, so the ones that get regularly xfered into the bag to walk all that way to the board .... sorry, crag are:

Metolius Brush - ditch the toothbrush guys, they are sooooo G.A.Y.
Chalkbag
Liquid Chalk
Strappal
Boots
Ibruprofen
about three lighters
Some skins
over-caffeinated sugary drink company
Camera.

I don't need a guiness beer towel, as the mats are never that dirty.

[Kim]

boots
chalkbag (usually sans chalk...)
finger tape
tub of climb on
water (lots, for rehydrating after the night before...)
blue wrigleys extra (essential hangover food)
3 XXXX beer mats (in case Dave "obtains" one by mistake)
2 brushes
vidyo camera
monopod
big fat brush on a leki pole

[jimbo]

Kim, you forgot to mention the enormous bag of skunk which seems to accompany you everywhere.

[Kim]

Kim, you forgot to mention the enormous bag of skunk which seems to accompany you everywhere.

who me??  :shock:

 :wink:

[vivahate]

boots, chalk, guide, lucozade, paracetamol and malt loaf, cut door mat, groundsheet (depending on how the weather has been) and woodpecker beer mat all get shoved in my mat

[Pantontino]

2 pairs of rock boots - one soft, one edgey
2 chalk bags - dunno why? Its not as if I do much deep water soloing.
chalk
various brushes and sometimes a big paint brush for fat slopers and fine grained rock
big chunky nail clippers
tape
midge repellant
lightweight headtorch
2 beer towels
a hat
camera
spare film
rotten apple
biscuit crumbs
water bottle
sand paper
pen
paper
duvet jacket
various topos
tide tables
hand warmer (when I remember)
gloves
pair of very chalky shorts
odd socks
orange peel
twigs?
pen knife

[Jim]

I don't have a bag that has a regular contents, more a boot that has all my climbing possesions in - and there are too many to list, so the ones that get regularly xfered into the bag to walk all that way to the board .... sorry, crag are:

Metolius Brush - ditch the toothbrush guys, they are sooooo G.A.Y.
Chalkbag
Liquid Chalk
Strappal
Boots
Ibruprofen
about three lighters
Some skins
over-caffeinated sugary drink company
Camera.

I don't need a guiness beer towel, as the mats are never that dirty.

ok a few things I have forgotten:
liquid chalk - I don't rate it that much
bouldering chalk bag(large moon one) & small clip on one for longish traverses(banana bag)

I, like dobbin keep a boot full of bouldering stuff including old boots, guide books etc.. but why the toothbrush homophobia???

also Guinness beer towels are good for thwacking fat slopers and not just used for cleaning boots

Pantantino - you must have a very large bag

[dmitri]

Caffeine Tablets,
painkiller,
gaffer tape thickness finger tape + thin stuff,
Toothbrush,
Chunky "shoe" brush acquired from military surplusstore,
Red Rock beer mat,
1 hand warmer working,
1 hand warmer with doit ursen repair patch made out of MountainFever bag & super glue after i melted it 2 one of my saucepans
Multiple accesory carabiners,
Lockknife,
Tikka+ headtorch (for those cold night sessions)
Blow torch like lighter,
General 1st aid stuff (elastoplast!!!!!)

[nik at work]

fuck me you are one sorry collection of overprepared mutha-fuckers.
I usually manage to remember a pair of boots and a chalk bag, if I'm really going well there may even be a few crumbs of chalk in the chalk bag...


...oh and my GPS, neech.

[dobbin]

but why the toothbrush homophobia???

I never would have called myself a brush snob, but since stealing one of these beauties from Ratho I have become converted! The brushes are so much stiffer. Does anyone use the really thin end of a metolius brush? what for?

[Johnny Brown]

Does anyone use the really thin end of a metolius brush

...clearly for smaller holds than you use. They are really designed for cleaning guns tho', good old yankee utensils.

...as for towels, I prefer mine labelled 'Tetleys'     :wink:

[Adam Lincoln]

but why the toothbrush homophobia???

I never would have called myself a brush snob, but since stealing one of these beauties from Ratho I have become converted! The brushes are so much stiffer. Does anyone use the really thin end of a metolius brush? what for?

I use it for cleaning those black boogers from my nose after a session at the wall  

No, really, i do  :wink:

[Bubba]

I'm no way any where near as organised as some of you but usually 2 pairs boots, lots of chalk, chalk bag (bucket and rag usually inside the bouldering pad). Ummm, tape, megagrip, creatine, big water bottle, camera, video camera and sometimes gloves and extra t-shirt if it's very cold.

Usually an assortment of old crap at the bottom and side pockets stuffed with other people's shite that I pick up at the crag to take home  :twisted:

[dave]

so who's got the most esoteric bartowel? is there kudos to be had from owning a real ale bartowel?

just remembered about this lad at school who had a t-shirt made entirely out of bar towels sewn together into a t-shirt shape. i recon something like that but made into the shape of a hoody would look pretty fly at the crag.

[Johnny Brown]

so who's got the most esoteric bartowel? is there kudos to be had from owning a real ale bartowel?

surely all you need to know on the subject is covered in Fawcett on Rock?

[Bubba]

I'm impressed that all you whippersnappers are keeping the great bouldering tradition of the bar towel alive  :D  

I use old bath-towels these days. When I were a student I saw a lad who'd completely covered his jeans in bar towels. He looked a bit of a cock, it must be said.

[dontfollowme]

What's with the sandpaper?

[dobbin]

takes the rough raggy bits off your tips preventing a tear. I prefer a foot care board thing.

[Jess]

1 pair boots
chalk bag
loads of loose chalk
finger tape
toothbrush
hartleys beer towel
fags
occasionally a couple of cans of stella
not bad for a bird considering were famous for taking everything but the kitchen sink everywhere with us.
oops forgot the climb on stuff cant have minging hands

[Carnage]

2 Pairs of shoes
Brushes
Chalk bag
Ibuprofen Gel
Tape
Rag
rollies
Guarana pills
1 Emergency valium
Palmers cream
Nail clippers/Emery boards
Super glue.

Not that much really.

[Bubba]

1 Emergency valium

:shock: What, for particularly stressful problems?

[Carnage]

Could be used for that but more for any injuries.

Great muscle relaxant and offers pretty good pain relief.  :D

[Bubba]

Well I've only ever had it how shall we say, ummm inadvertantly in another sort of pill, and I was whacked out for hours. Pleasant enough but wouldn't want to drive home afterwards.