Alternative to Alien Hybrids?

I don't carry anything else on my rack except for some nuts, a blue alien and a green alien. Once in a while a red.

The design flaw has been fixed. The trigger wires used to be just a pin stuck 1/2 inch into plastic, what were they thinking? Now its a metal rod through a plastic housing/trigger and its the bomb.

I have a set of tripples and hardly even use offset aliens or aliens on walls anymore in pin scars or wobbly small cracks. Just jam a link cam in and go. Which is why I am so wicked fast, I'm sure.

Back when I free climbed more I went up two letter grades in a weekend because they turn crack climbing into sport climbing. When it is impossible to pull the wrong piece of gear off the rack and rudimentarily knowledge of gear placement is enough to get a good placement anywhere, all the time you used to spend futzing, choosing, and worrying about gear can be used on getting the hell out of there and to a rest or the top.

Link cams are beyond awesome. If you want to get one for a starter piece, get the one with the size you're weakest in...thin hands? get red. fingers and smaller? get purple. Rattly fingers? Get green. You will love it.

-Kate.