Frank Kroger shows his water collector.

Tom Reynolds uses the gear contest as an excuse to mix another drink.

Ivy shows his sock-drying system, which requires hopping around on one foot and then the other while trying to balance your socks on your head...or something like that.

Kelty Kid Carl's multipurpose implement (water dam, snow shovel, cat-hole trowel, signal mirror, hitchhiking aid) surely should have won something

Vic Hanson weighs his crampons, which resemble tiny tire chains

Hip belt pads for a Golite pack

Nathaniel "Fleischman" Strauss showed nothing...his weightless e-mail solution

Don Davison weighs his water collection pipe

Not content to wow the judges with her webbing chair, Ready shows off her cookpot cozy