Old Piece of Gear (not the pins)
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willie!!!!!

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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2010 - 11:14am PT
Stephane - Thanks! That is a cool tidbit. Feel free to keep 'em coming.

Wayno - In the climb pictured above, I had to do exstensive crack de-mossing for every placement. That pick is super handy for that, eh?

An old climbing partner of mine was just in town and reminded me of a time I almost peeled trying to free over a smooth bulge where the crack went smaller than fingers.

At the last minute, I reached out and torked that pick in, which allowed me to pull over.

Any thing goes in the unexplored alpine!
nutstory

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Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Jan 22, 2015 - 08:15am PT
Here is some more interesting information that I found about the Piton Carrier (Hakenschani). The first generation was invented by H. Strathmann who filed out a Patent on July 14th, 1961 for this piece of climbing gear. Patent number DE1174228B
The climbing gear history buffs also might be interested to know that Bill Forrest filed out a Patent for his PinBin on July 22nd, 1968. Patent number US3563430A
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