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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Rope gun. Hands down.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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After watching the current generation of top climbers mostly climb with nothing but cams I moved the nuts off my base rack. My base rack is one set of cams up to a #2 camalot. Then I add as needed for the climb. Sometimes that's a set of nuts if it's a thin crack. Sometimes is #3 and up cams for wide cracks. Most often it's doubling up the cams from .4 to #1. The only time I climb something without cams would be a thin crack that I'm aiding.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Good posts today, Fet, not to imply they are other than on other days.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Good posts today, Fet, not to imply they are other than on other days.
My experience is that I can count on good posts from the Fet every day.
John
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Gee thanks guys. I sometimes worry I come across as a know it all, so it's nice to know my posts are appreciated. By the smart people anyway. ;-)
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Blue Totem
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Rope gun. Hands down.
Great for sure, but they take so dang long to manufacture, and are ridiculously expensive.
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Presto
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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That thing between your ears.
Too manky and tattered in my case...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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The cloud 9 cam is pretty versatile.
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MattB
Trad climber
Tucson
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Tricam
Fits Anywhere a cam will, and tons of places nothing else will
Best idea, worst gear: link-cam
HB offsets are superb, but not an invention, just a modification
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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And the winner is......the camalot!
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MattB
Trad climber
Tucson
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Yes for the camalot....
but wasn't the double-axle just a patent skirt around?
What about the "two-cam" or splitter cam thing...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Okay....make it the best pro brought to market.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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The cloud 9 cam is pretty versatile. But how the hell do you buy one? Almost as mythical as the Pamalot.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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I think those little brass stoppers are useless. Any serious impact destroys them. BD steel nuts in the same size ranges float my boat. Love HB nuts, all of them.
Tricams are great but specialized. They work well where nothing else will, but 99% of the time a cam or nut will be better. The same is true for ball nuts.
A good stopper is bomber, as is a good cam. My point? Everything is situational.
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MattB
Trad climber
Tucson
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I'm sorry, but comparing ball-nutz to tri-cams? One mostly useless, one almost too-bomber
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Ball nuts are great for aid! So are those little teeny tri-cams that look like toys.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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But how the hell do you buy one? Almost as mythical as the Pamalot. The stuff of dreams, put that in your pipe......
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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One mostly useless, one almost too-bomber
Everything is situational.
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