Yesterday’s post was about racking on your harness vs. racking on a gear sling. Today’s post goes into more detail about racking gear on your harness. Note that this is my way of doing it and that there are probably a bunch of different ways. Also note that I’m right-handed; you might want to flip things around if you’re a lefty. Picture below pretty much sums everything up.
This is my standard setup for trad climbing, whether it’s single or multi pitch. I usually take a set of nuts and set of cams with me up just about everything. On routes where I bring doubles of pieces, I shift the cams around accordingly so that there’s an even amount of weight on the front and back loops of the right sde.
There’s definitely more than one way to skin a cat here. How do you rack your gear?
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My way of racking is more or less similar, except that I only put nuts on the front right loop and all the cams on a shoulder sling. Due to the construction of my harness, the back left loop is almost unusable, so belay device, prusiks and extra junk goes back right.
I used to do it like that, but sometimes you can’t always easily reach the gear on the right side, so now I usually put cams on both sides on the front loops, then draws behind them on both sides, random stuff goes last in the back. this way I can get to both cams and draws easily on either side.
I do passive on front left loop (there’s usually a lot because I’m a big fan) then cams on front right then back left is slings and draws and back right is belay, prussiks and daisy.