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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2007 - 01:47am PT
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Hmmm, this one hasn't been bumped for a while. And there's a reason to do so - when I was at the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City in August, someone there showed me some prototypes of tiny tri-cams. Smaller than the 0.5, that is. They were apparently near production, so maybe we'll see them in stores soon.
There's nothing on the Camp website about this - www.camp.it
Sizes smaller than 0.5 may be easier to get stuck.
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pimp daddy wayne
climber
The Bat Caves
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Nov 18, 2007 - 02:10am PT
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Wow that is a nice site!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2007 - 01:01pm PT
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Thank you, sween345. Here is the picture from that site:
The text, by vegastradguy from RC.nOOb, is:
"I actually didn’t have an appointment with CAMP this year, but I stopped by just in case something neat was coming out. It’s a good thing I did, otherwise I might well be flayed alive by tricam lovers everywhere. This spring, CAMP is introducing two NEW tricams- the .25 and the .125!
Pretty sweet, eh? They’ll retail at around $17 or $18 and are due out in the spring." (Spring 2008)
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Cassidy
Trad climber
Nova Scotia
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Nov 18, 2007 - 06:20pm PT
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Nice to see some fellow tri-cam users.
In my climbing area I am a singularity in their use.
For one of my partners, Steve, who is particularly tri-cam-phobic I try to place as many as possible - which would be the three I own: pink, red, and brown.
These things fit in where nothing else will. Indispensible.
Sean
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 19, 2007 - 12:07pm PT
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Tiny Tri-cams in the rack
Fit so nicely in the crack -Don Ho-ho-ho
It's about time that the micronuggets showed up commercially. I wonder what it would take to persuade the Camp folks to put them out with a short or tack pocketed sling for aid climbing?
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Mike Layton
Ice climber
bellingham, wa
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Hey look, my booty is in the interwebs!
We were pretty psyched to booty gear placed by soviets in 1977! Old booty, but good booty!
We actually re-used it on the climb a few times! Amazing that the webbing was still good after almost 30 years.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2008 - 12:06am PT
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I just thought I'd bump a climbing-related thread, albeit a somewhat whimsical one.
Are the .125 and .25 tri-cams on the shelf yet?
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder
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Jun 20, 2008 - 12:14am PT
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I have two pinkys, had 'em for years....Tri-cams are trad Arkansas gear, just in general. I liked the .5 T-shirt, too.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Jun 20, 2008 - 02:05pm PT
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There was a gear swap meet at the gym last night and in one pile of old gear offered for sale was a pink tri-cam. We joked about how beloved these things are among certain climbers (nobody we know -- but I'm sure they are perfectly nice people) and after a few minutes of repartee, tossed it back into the heap.
I'm sure you could still buy it for cheap (it didn't sell). But it will cost you dearly to get the name and number of the seller from me.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 10, 2009 - 04:54pm PT
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For all you Tricam lovers-- enjoy!
Chuck Kroger picked up this set of Abalakov cams on the third Soviet climbing exchange around the same time.
Kathy Green donated these to the YCA this summer. The only full set that I have ever seen! Thanks again for your support, Kathy.
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Jan 10, 2009 - 08:23pm PT
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Never leave the ground without "The Pink"!!
Thor
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jan 10, 2009 - 10:09pm PT
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Those Abalakov pieces look like he just took a pully wheel of some kind and cut right angle pieces off of it then drilled some holes for cord (and lightening in some)...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jan 10, 2009 - 10:22pm PT
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Run those by a geiger
counter....
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the campfire just a ways past Chris' Taco stand
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Jan 11, 2009 - 12:55am PT
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I just got my second pink tri-cam... why have one when you can have two?
Saved my butt many a time.
I also have the next 7 sizes up from the pink and the .25 as well.
I'd not heard of the cleaning issue, but I'm the one who's always placing them... not much of a chance to clean them. But if you have a nut tool and think of it as a kind of SLCD, then it shouldn't be too much trouble.
Derek Starr (aka Roy Naasz) turned me on to them and used to call them the "poor man's Camalot."
Fletch
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MisterE
Trad climber
Raising Arizona
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Jan 11, 2009 - 01:08am PT
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Just recently purchased a VERY dusty full set from the local shop
in Flagstaff. Seemed a bit weird to me, blowing that dust off...
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
I don't even know anymore
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Jan 11, 2009 - 10:01am PT
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Pin tricams have saved my ass a few times in flaring pin scars, kept me from taking the big ride.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 12:10pm PT
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Steel- you got it. Abalakov didn't invent the idea. His genius lay in finding a clean, effective way to render and produce the Tricam design that Jello showed him back in 1975 on the first Soviet climbing exchange.
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Jan 11, 2009 - 02:47pm PT
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Again I say: "A day without a tricam is aday without sunchine."
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