{"id":1329,"date":"2015-05-24T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2022-02-10T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:40:26","slug":"the-greatest-chalk-bag-ever-made-tufa-climbing-houdini-chalk-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/the-greatest-chalk-bag-ever-made-tufa-climbing-houdini-chalk-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Chalk Bag Ever Made (Tufa Climbing Houdini Chalk Bag)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regular and “Alpine” Houdini Chalk Bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chalk bags are a pretty generic piece of climbing gear. \u00a0It’s hard to get excited about a chalk bag. \u00a0They are really just a bag that holds chalk. \u00a0Arcteryx came up with a fancy twisting mechanism for keeping the chalk from spilling with their “Aperture” chalk bag, but other than that innovation, chalk bags haven’t changed much since I started climbing in the 80’s.<\/p>\n

However, I have found a chalk bag that I am actually quite excited about. \u00a0It’s made by Tufa Climbing, a small company that turns out chalk bags and other climbing soft goods in Missoula, Montana. \u00a0We worked together on the design, and ultimately I ended up with what I think is the greatest chalk bag ever made. \u00a0They call it the Houdini Chalk Bag. \u00a0It’s available on their web site HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

The thing that makes the Houdini chalk bag worthy of excitement is the bottom zippered pocket. \u00a0There are lots of chalk bags with zippered pockets, but this design has a pocket that actually is large enough to hold some useful emergency items. \u00a0 The pocket is located in the bottom of the bag, and accessible with a water resistant zipper. \u00a0The position and orientation of the pocket makes it so that you can stuff the pocket full, and it doesn’t interfere with the function of the chalk bag. \u00a0(Side pockets tend to impinge on access to the chalk when stuffed too full.)<\/p>\n

I have two of these Tufa Houdini chalk bags, one slightly smaller that I use for everyday cragging, and a larger one that I use on long alpine routes. \u00a0The pocket in the smaller bag is large enough to comfortably fit a headlamp, a knife, a small sparklight and a couple of tinder tabs, along with an ultralight windbreaker (Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer Hooded Jacket.) \u00a0The pocket in the larger Alpine chalk bag bag is large enough to hold those items, plus a few Gu packs or the like.<\/p>\n

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Tufa Houdini and the kit it carries: \u00a0Ghost Whisperer hooded wind shirt, Petzl E-Light, Baladeo knife, sparklight flint, and 2 fire tabs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What this means, is that whenever I’m climbing, I’m never without some basic emergency gear. \u00a0I’ve already made use of this once, as we got behind a really slow party on a\u00a0multi-pitch route at one of the local crags. \u00a0We finished in the dark, and it was very handy to have the headlamp and the windbreaker available.<\/p>\n

In normal climbing use, the Houdini chalk bag functions just like a regular\u00a0chalk bag, and I pretty much forget I’m even carrying anything in it other than chalk.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it. \u00a0The greatest chalk bag ever made, and the first and only chalk bag I have been excited enough about to write a review on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chalk bags are a pretty generic piece of climbing gear. \u00a0It’s hard to get excited about a chalk bag. \u00a0They are really just a bag that holds chalk. \u00a0Arcteryx came up with a fancy twisting mechanism for keeping the chalk from spilling with their “Aperture” chalk bag, but other than that innovation, chalk bags haven’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,131],"tags":[371,369,374,375,373,207,370,372,368,367,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larsonweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}