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marky
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 2, 2007 - 07:13pm PT
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also, is the only manufacturer of "the pink" these days CAMP?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Search me. I don't even own one. When Jeff (jello) first appeared on SuperTopo, we were teasing him about his family's many inventions, and eventually got on the subject. For some reason I googled "pink tri-cam", and found the website - and thought Jeff would be tickled to know of it.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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the pink tri-cam is very cute, guys.
C'mon.
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feelio Babar
Trad climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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I never leave the ground without my little pink unit.
...that little pink thing has gotten me outta all sorts of trouble.
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JAK
climber
The Souf
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Gots me doubles of Tri-Cams pink through brown (smallest three sizes) and a single blue for those odd jobs.
Maybe it depends on how the rock weathers where you are, but here in NC, you get some of the bomberestest placements ever with those things - many times in spots where nothing else is gonna get the job done
Bottom line: I like em.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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JAK, you hit it on the mark. The first three sizes are light and indespensible, and have a wierd color connotation. Pink, Red and Brown (.5,1,1.5) are the only natural colors available on the female nipple aereolae(sp)--cool. Perhaps this is why people are so rhapsodic about them.
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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There are so many places I can place a pink tricam, where nothing else, short of a pin, would fit. It's kind of fun to weasel in a wierd little placement instead of getting way runout. They come in handy all over the place, from all over the Pinnacles, to Power Dome at Courtright, to the crux of Illusion Dweller. (Yeah, I know. You can place a sweet little cam there. But the tricam is more fun.)
Pink tricams rule!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Gotta love a piece of protection known for not coming out!
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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I love this thread!
-PinkJelloAndWellProtected
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Nate Ricklin
climber
San Diego
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Post some pictures of your funky pink tricam placements where nothing else will fit. I want to be educated.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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why are people rhapsodic about the pink tri-cam?
Because it beats the hell out of brown stains in the pants!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Perhaps there's some inner yearning for more poetry on SuperTopo?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I have two... pink tricams...
there are places to use them in the Meadows where nothing else quite fits
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WBraun
climber
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So I did not know what rhapsodic means.
I look up in internet dictionary.
The first line was a google ad that said "Are you stupid?"
Fitting .......
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Werner, it probably thought that you were asking about some sort of "rhap".
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feelio Babar
Trad climber
Sneaking up behind you...
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the real question...is how many of us have a filed down .5.....the super ninja piece.
i do.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Most stuck piece at the Gunks. Many of the slings are sun bleached to white.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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^That's because some people don't take the time to understand what it is, the tricam is.
I have followed people who I thought were competant leaders only to find they were tricam illiterate. So overcammed it's a miracle they can be undone, rattling around in a hole caught on strange contact points as you tug and falling back into the void if you release.... It's always a disappointment to come across these placements.
We adore the tricam because he is humble.
I love tricams, and have a set of the six, up to Navy. Red is my most placed, and though I don't place the 2 largest ones much - it just occurred to me that the reason may be because I often lead on my partner's rack, and so I simply don't have them.
I like to use tricams also because it feels very authentic to work with them. I am really analyzing my placement and making decsions of self-responsibility where with a cam, it's sometimes easy to avoid that and just slip it in without too much thought.
This is changing, though, as I become more adept at judging cam placements under duress. As I began leading, I trusted my nuts and tricams a LOT more than cam placements. But nowdays,...I will admit that if I am scared, I'll reach for the cam first if the placement is cam/tricam optional.
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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i placed two yesterday leading variety delight in lcc (rather interesting for 5.7 i thought...) - the book even states the pro is tricky, and i ended up placing every piece 2-4 times *every* time as i haven't lead anything in 9 months (kudos to the infinite patience of my belayer as i get the lead mellon back...)
every time i got really stuck, i stuffed a pink tricam in there and b00m - instant feel better...finger tip size, sits in flares, boldly goes where no other pro might go at all...
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Rocky5000
Trad climber
Falls Church, VA
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I have three, of much different ages and fade. They hold in pin scars and anything equally unlikely. A partner of mine once took three lead falls in a row on a pink in a spot at Jtree where nothing else would do. He bought me a new one, being a prince of a fellow, but I still use the old one too. Trust the Tricam!
I've never lost a tricam because I couldn't get it out; like any other cam, I don't jam it in as hard as it will go. There's a fixed, very faded pink halfway up Simple J Malarkey, at Seneca, and two small but expensive active cams permanently jammed at the second belay. Typical perhaps for a popular (and scary) training-lead.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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The filed-down pinkie is the sign of one who has spent way too much time at Looking Glass.
So Jello-- was that the smallest you could make those, or what? Seems like lots of people would buy and use a sub-pinkie if it were available.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Beware! The new pinkies are bigger than the old ones.
Anyone who knows their worth has two or more.
Yes you can overcam tri-cams, just let the tail rails touch the same side of the surface the point touches, good luck getting that one back.
WHY are people rhapsodic about the pink tri-cam???
IF you have to ask...
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Nice for those little horizontal slots in Tuolumne, like Ed said.
I can think of two stuck pinkies. One is at or just above the second belay of Bears Reach at the Leap, and the other is on the first pitch of Fish Hook Arete. Both have been there a while. I assume they are still there. (?)
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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I think the original was RED. I remember obtaining it in the 80's and the color was changed to better match ones lycra....
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Also perfect for solution pockets (think small round holes) in granite, where absolutely nothing else will go, and a tricam is completely bomber and easy to get in and out. Whitehorse in North Conway has a few pitches where the only pro you can get in 50 meters of slab is a few tricams.
GO
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BenLyon
Trad climber
Alabama!
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Got double in pink...and red...singles in brown and blue.
These are key pieces in the SE and Western North Carolina.
The pink caught my sorry butt not long ago when a blue TCU popped out of a crappy, flairing placement as I whizzed past.
The red caught a single piece winger I treated myself to two weeks ago.
Oh yeah.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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dont climb in the gunks without your tricams. although, admittedly, i havent been placing mine much. i need more practice.
i've heard from some about grinding down their .5s - anyone care to share some pix or details?
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wbw
climber
'cross the great divide
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If yer stayin' in the pink, it can't be wrong.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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I used my pink one on Black Widow at Tuolumne last Saturday. If you have a couple pinks that route gets a G rating, without tricams it is a sure R.
If you want to know why we praise the pinky like no other, go do routes on Power Dome at Courtwright Reservoir. There is NO other pro available on the last pitch of most routes there. Whoa to you if you venture there without them.
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Great piece....however gets stuck easy.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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If you'd stop putting them in your ears and up your nose they would not get stuck so easily, Apocy.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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HEY pocraplips, I'm just trying to help you out of yoru little problem. Post stalker.
I have the giant one myself, actually two, and one is still stuck in a big crack in the BSF. When you need one of those you really need one.
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CAMNOTCLIMB
Trad climber
novato ca
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Pink has kept my ass out of the dirt. Simple, clean, works.
Brian
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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RCA in the Meadows, the only route I've used that piece on in 35 years of climbing; I can also see how they'd help on Black Widow.
I typically don't carry them and really don't like wiggling them out of regular crack placements, but if someone tells me I need one for a pocket, than I've got a red and a pink to cover those "nothing else will work" placements. The Courtwright Res, Gunks, N Carolina, Whitehorse tips sound smart.
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