Broke? Saving For Your Next Trip? This Is the Best Gear for Climbers on a Budget
Climbing may not be a wallet-busting activity like resort skiing or downhill mountain biking, but it sure ain’t cheap. Our ropes wear out, backpacks tear, and shoe rubber busts. In order to keep your budget low and stoke high, I’ve picked through my gear closet for some longtime favorites that are about as cheap as they come. Myself and other testers have used these products on granite big walls, steep ice lines, pumpy sport routes, and powerful boulders in North and South America. And they’re all just a fraction of the price of more well-known products.
One quick note before we dive in: budget gear is not necessarily the cheapest gear on the market. You could buy a flimsy $50 jacket from Walmart, but if you have to replace it every year once it’s been torn to shreds, it’s not actually that cheap. A one-time $200 jacket would have been far more economical. So: the gear below is both well made and reasonably priced. These picks are not all the cheapest shoes/harness/ropes money can buy. But they are the cheapest we’d recommend.
Budget gear at a glance
- Evolv Defy climbing shoe
- Black Diamond Momentum harness
- Mammut Crag Classic 9.5mm rope
- Patagonia Ascensionist 35L backpack
- Showa Temres 282 gloves
- Camp X-All Mountain ice tools
- Black Diamond Mojo chalk bag
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