What's the smallest piece of gear you repeatedly whipped on? I don't mean oozed onto, or hung on...I mean full on air time, screaming for your belayer to watch you, hearing the rope zip through the carabiners as you fall past it. I've fallen, or rather oozed onto the black Alien once or twice, but last week taking repeayed whips off the second pitch crux of Feast of Fools on a #4 stopper wins the prize for me. Don;t worry, it was backed up by a #3. Any other stories??

RR

black alien, 00 tcu and #3 brassie.

that was when i weighed 150.

Yellow HB brass offset whatever number that is.

blue aliens/ yellow zeros and green C3's (all the same size piece), which is a normal occurance. #4 BD stoppers, a couple routes which I really like only take them (ie: the Adrenaline start to Serenity in Yosemite)

Sam mentioned RR's small gear

.1 and.2 BD cams, after 3 falls the .2 cam was not in good shape anymore, the .1 survived a single fall, but the lobes and springs were F'kt up...curious to see if my new c3s can take a little more punishment


...never fallen on my HB offset brassies, but I trust my life to em

in re the post above...i swear by my #4 BD stoppers....keep two on my gunks rack, and sink em quite often.

#3 or #4 BD micro-nut (like an RP, but crappier).

GO

Interesting. I don't have the 0.1 or 0.2 BD C4's but I take a lot of wingers onto my 0.3 BD's and they don't look any worse for wear...

Be sure to distinguish between Sam and Samantha in these types of discussions.

"Interesting. I don't have the 0.1 or 0.2 BD C4's but I take a lot of wingers onto my 0.3 BD's and they don't look any worse for wear..."
They aren't making any C4s smaller than .3, instead pointing us toward the C3s. I bent up some of the old version .1 and .2 camalots just hanging on them due to all the bending force transmitted to the end of the metal sleeve over the wire.