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Omot
Trad climber
The here and now
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Dec 21, 2008 - 08:00pm PT
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Tricams are versatile. Has anyone mentioned that you don't have to cam them? You can place them like a nut and they are just as bomber. I've always carried the 0.5-2 sizes and left the stoppers of equivalent size behind. Saves a lot of weight on the rack.
I learned to climb at the Gunks and never took them off my rack when I moved to CA.
Tomo
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 21, 2008 - 10:00pm PT
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John - Don't leave 'em out. Just explain that like slider nuts, ball nuts, micro cams, etc., they are specialized. Gunks climbers love 'em in the horizontals. So do Courtright climbers, in the straight in holes there.
As said above, they can be placed as a nut as well, making them versatile.
I think that in straight forward crack placements they are unstable compared to "normal" gear like a Camalot or stopper and can come unplaced easily. But then, I have seen folks botch those placements with any kind of gear too...
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2008 - 10:22pm PT
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I used two of the large one's once on a 6"offwidth,found them to be pretty rattlely.
Bruce
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
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Dec 21, 2008 - 10:59pm PT
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The new .25 black ones are almost better than the pink ones at Courtwright. I now have 2 of them.
On Black Widow in Tuolumne they turn the route from an R to a PG. I think I place 4 tricams on that route.
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Sir loin of leisure...
Trad climber
X
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Dec 21, 2008 - 11:09pm PT
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they do fit where other things are not as good..
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Bovine
Trad climber
USA
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Dec 22, 2008 - 11:37am PT
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