Best climbing crash pads according to redditors

If you are going bouldering anywhere you NEED a crash pad. Like seriously, this your safety, your health, AND for your sends. If you don't have any sort of protection you are risking a lot of things.

1. You could hurt yourself or your partner in an unprotected fall.
   
   
2. Along the same lines, you could very easily break your foot, leg, whatever and not be able to climb for months.
   
   
3. You are not going to want to make any complex or risky moves if you don't have any protection and that is going to make it WAY less likely you will send anything.
   
   Here is a link for a crash pad on Amazon and its only $150. If you can't afford that right now I would very strongly recommend waiting to climb outdoors until you can get at least one pad (generally you want to have 2).
   
   I definitely understand wanting to get outside but you have to think about your safety above everything else. And if not for your safety at least think about the sends.
   
   To answer your actual question... RRG is not a good place for bouldering (not saying there isn't routes but it just isn't well developed). Check out Mountain Project and look for boulder locations and routes near your area.

If you want to splurge and get the best I hear that Organic pads are the way to go.

If you want to save money like I did, you can usually find the Metolius Bailout Crash pad for pretty cheap. I think mine was like 1115 and it is pretty good.

Also isn't this the mad rock pad you are looking for?

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Rock-Pad-Black/dp/B001C3RD6I?SubscriptionId=AKIAI5RQCZHOENZ4DIIA&tag=outdoocom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001C3RD6I

It's this: https://www.amazon.com/Homedics-HMS-3MAT-HoMedics-Crash-Beige/dp/B004B59LI2

Not done so myself but, honestly, wouldn't. Crash pads have different construction and materials to a folding mattress which will make them much more effective for landing on than what you linked. Even if you thought about using it folded up, I'd be very wary in the lateral movement it might create.

For $142 you could get a useful crash pad.

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Looks like the Mad Pad is on sale too

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Looks like the Mad Pad is on sale too.

Question: Any thoughts on something this big? It doesn't really seem necessary to me, but I just thought I'd ask.

No, that's the Mad Pad.

This is the R3: http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Rock-R3-Crash-Pad/dp/B0078D4ZTE

That's the mad pad, this'd be the guy:

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Rock-R3-Crash-Pad/dp/B0078D4ZTE

Madrock R3 is still on sale on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Rock-R3-Crash-Pad/dp/B0078D4ZTE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499104293&sr=8-1&keywords=r3+madrock

Set up an alert on craigslist for bouldering and rock climbing and you will find one eventually - took me 2 months (just paid off yesterday :D).