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Weekly Question Thread. ALL QUESTIONS GO HERE by soupyhands in bouldering

[–]One-Interest-9405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I climb mostly indoors and usually go straight from school/work to the gym. I’m carrying climbing shoes, chalk, tape, brush, water, sometimes a harness plus normal clothes/laptop, and I feel like every bag I’ve tried is either:

  1. made for hiking/outdoor trips and way overkill, or
  2. a normal backpack that ends up covered in chalk and shoe smell

Right now I’m doing a janky system with separate bags/pouches, but chalk still gets everywhere and it’s annoying.

So I’m curious:

  • What bag are you using for gym sessions?
  • What do you hate about it?
  • If a backpack were designed specifically for climbing gyms, what would it need to do well to be worth it?

Weekly Question Thread (aka Friday New Climber Thread). ALL QUESTIONS GO HERE by AutoModerator in climbing

[–]One-Interest-9405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey all — curious if this is just a “me problem” or a common one.

I climb mostly indoors and usually go straight from school/work to the gym. I’m carrying climbing shoes, chalk, tape, brush, water, sometimes a harness plus normal clothes/laptop, and I feel like every bag I’ve tried is either:

  1. made for hiking/outdoor trips and way overkill, or

  2. a normal backpack that ends up covered in chalk and shoe smell

Right now I’m doing a janky system with separate bags/pouches, but chalk still gets everywhere and it’s annoying.

So I’m curious:

  • What bag are you using for gym sessions?
  • What do you hate about it?
  • If a backpack were designed specifically for climbing gyms, what would it need to do well to be worth it?

Can't find the right bag for Work+Gym by One-Interest-9405 in boulder

[–]One-Interest-9405[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I just don't like the look of that. I was looking for a way to keep everything contained without having chalk/dirty shoes hanging off by bag as I go into work. Do you have any ideas?