Description
Cush without the weight.
- Sandwich foam design (1in closed-cell top, 2.5in open-cell middle, 0.5in closed-cell bottom) absorbs impact so your ankles can live if you blow it at the lip
- Carpeted logo helps keep your shoes clean
- Angled hinge design helps eliminate the gutter
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Metolius Bailout Crash Pad
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Bang for the Buck!
Bullitt
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For the price this is a great pad. Decent foam, decent buckles and the carpet section are all great together. A little burlier construction would be nice but then just get a Boss Hog pad.
Poor
Reed Rombough
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- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I really don't like metolius's cheap pads. The fastening system on mine barely lasted a year. The cheap rubber they used to hold it closed just tears. I have to hold mine together with a strap going all the way around now. And the fabric on the bottom tears really easy. I wouldn't recommend this specific pad to anyone.
Great Pad
Greg G
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Love this pad! Light and easy to carry while still providing good protection against falls with the dual density padding. The carpet square in the middle is icing on the cake!
Great budget pad!
Mark Parrett
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Great Pad, Great Price
Richard Taylor
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Like others have said, this is a great pad for the money. I just picked one up last week, but I have used a friend's prior. Solid pad, easy to carry, light-weight, etc., etc. If you're starting to get into bouldering, this is a great buy.
Anyone know where I can get my hands on...
Thomas Ogasawara
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Anyone know where I can get my hands on the crashpad in this picture? http://www.myspace.com/metoliusclimbing/photos/2422689
Arthur Debowski
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The Sketch is the closest thing to that at the moment. http://www.backcountry.com/metolius-sketch-crash-pad
Looking for a good all-around/light weight...
Hayden Beck
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Looking for a good all-around/light weight bouldering pad. I would like it to be able to carry shoes,calk,and a nagene. Any recomendations?
Thomas Ogasawara
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This one is a great pad, so is the mad pad. If you're willing to throw down a few more bucks for some better quality and support a small business, check out organicclimbing.com. I prefer the simple pad to the full pad.
But yeah, you can't go wrong with this pad, it's served me well for years.
Nice
Damegood
Member since
Backcountry is awesome! I'm stations in Japan and Backcountry shipped this crash pad to me for free and within a week. That's super fast for an oversized APO AP shipment. Thanks Backcountry I couldn't enjoy this awesome product without you!
excellent
hanniejane
Member since
This is a great pad. very durable, portable, affordable.
love the angled hinge, variety of carrying handles, graphics, and the carpet square in the center is a nice touch.
I'm very happy with my purchase!
does the job!
nick333
Member since
Nice pad for the price! The shoe wipe logo on the top is nice touch too. Have had to bail about 10-12 feet above, so far, and have not bottomed out through the foam. Not sure how it would fare on highballs yet. Nice and light, easy to carry around. The cover seems really durable (time will tell.) The graffix version is cool too!
Just makes sense!
Brock Fisher
Member since
Two things before you read the rest of this review.
1. There is a shoe wiping pad in the middle of the pad so your shoes are clean before begin climbing I thought I would let you know since the picture doesn't show that.
2. This is one of those great CHRISTMAS WISH LIST items, its cheap and its for your "safety" and from personal experiences if you can convince your parents it will help save your life no matter the cost they usually find a way to get it for you or at least let SANTA know.... if you have those parents who still think its fun to put "from: Santa" on your gifts.
It has all that you need and at the price you want. The larger pads are nice but if your someone who's bouldering projects are a bit of a hike that also involve heavily treed areas this pad is awesome since its weighs nothing and its not overly big so it doesn't get caught on everything on the way.
The pad is only 4" thick but the group I was with all took some good falls on this guy and none of us ever bottomed out the foam or even got close. If you are a bigger guy or gal and you are worried about going through it a simple way to strengthen the fall capacity of this pad is to go your local foam shop and ask for their highest density 1" foam and slip it inside the pad on the main fall side, not only will it catch more weight but it will also distribute the load all across the pad allowing it to last longer.
If you wondering about how comfortable the backpack straps are well lets put it this way YOUR CARRYING FOAM! so really its not as if its ergonomically designed but its comfortable enough and wont rub anywhere.
This pad makes total sense if your someone who understands that money doesn't grow on trees and that you don't get better as a climber just because your purchase a 300+ dollar crash pad.
Solid
Thomas Ogasawara
Member since
This pad is awesome. It's essentially just a revamped metolius stomp pad.
Pros:
Super lightweight
Sweet angled hinge so you don't gutter
Comfy straps
Durable fabric
Carpeted logo
Bomber buckles
Really cheap
Cons:
No longer comes in orange
For the price you can't beat this pad. Well, the mad pad is one inch thicker about equivalent in just about everything else, but this one is a little lighter. The upgrades from the stomp are a more durable fabric covering and a nifty carpeted logo to wipe off your feet before hopping on the rock.
This is a great first pad, ideal for bouldering anywhere and everywhere. I wouldn't use it for high balling, but for anything under 15 feet or so this pad is magic.

Thomas Ogasawara
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