|
moabbeth
Dec 30, 2003, 3:59 AM
Post #1 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 22, 2002
Posts: 1786
|
Imagine my shock when I opened my Xmas present from one of my partners and it was an Alien...that was grey/silver colored on the handle and the size was just in between the red and yellow Alien. I looked at him like "is this what I think it is??" and he said "yep, a new size Alien!"
I lept up and gave him a hug with more joy than if he'd given me the keys to a new car! Where the hell he found it I have no idea, a climbing shop in Vegas I think. But it's this perfect new size, right in between yellow and red.
Ahh...I love you new gray Alien. 8) 8) 8)
Anyone else have one? I'd never even seen one before, didn't know they started making them.
|
|
|
|
|
bigwalling
Dec 30, 2003, 4:06 AM
Post #2 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Dec 29, 2001
Posts: 728
|
What??? I need one! I'll have to track one down and get it.
|
|
|
|
|
vegastradguy
Dec 30, 2003, 4:23 AM
Post #3 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 28, 2002
Posts: 5919
|
huh, i know Desert Rock just got a new shipment of Aliens in (like a week or two ago), but i didnt notice any new sizes...course, that's prolly because i've been ogling the HB offsets lately....
great, now i have to know!!! *runs off to find the new alien*
|
|
|
|
|
smellyhippie
Dec 30, 2003, 5:02 AM
Post #4 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Nov 11, 2003
Posts: 155
|
My Precious...
|
|
|
|
|
moabbeth
Dec 30, 2003, 5:10 AM
Post #5 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 22, 2002
Posts: 1786
|
In reply to: huh, i know Desert Rock just got a new shipment of Aliens in (like a week or two ago), but i didnt notice any new sizes...course, that's prolly because i've been ogling the HB offsets lately.... great, now i have to know!!! *runs off to find the new alien*
I think that might be where he got it (DR). I'd never seen one before. It's the perfect size.
|
|
|
|
|
flagstaff_climber
Dec 30, 2003, 5:13 AM
Post #6 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Mar 22, 2002
Posts: 310
|
Where can you get one....I looked everywhere I know of....I MUST have one, NOW ! Thanks in advance......
Rick
|
|
|
|
|
radistrad
Dec 30, 2003, 5:14 AM
Post #7 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Feb 25, 2002
Posts: 800
|
I searched the web and could not find anything about a grey alien. Can you post a picture for us? Also I remember seeing a web site for CCH Aliens, but I was unable to turn anything up this evening. The offsets have grey slings, but color coded loops. I guess you are the lucky one.
Seems that a size between the yellow and red is not really necessary, huh guess they thought it was.
|
|
|
|
|
holdplease2
Dec 30, 2003, 5:19 AM
Post #8 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Dec 18, 2002
Posts: 1733
|
Dudes, as a cost-saving measure I just spraypainted my red alien grey. Yay! I love my grey alien!
red alien?
Where is my red alien?
Damn. Now I need a red alien.
Guess I will have to go buy one of those new grey aliens and paint it red.
Alas, such is the way of the cost-saving gearhead.
-Kate.
Beth...will you please bring your grey alien to J-tree this weekend? It needs my love, really it does. I can hear it calling to me now...
And oh yeah...my grey alien is bigger than yours! Wait a minute.
|
|
|
|
|
moabbeth
Dec 30, 2003, 5:32 AM
Post #9 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 22, 2002
Posts: 1786
|
In reply to: Beth...will you please bring your grey alien to J-tree this weekend? It needs my love, really it does. I can hear it calling to me now... And oh yeah...my grey alien is bigger than yours! Wait a minute.
hell, you can see it right now if ya want, my Aliens are at the bottom of Bob's pack since he led the last route yesterday so it's there in Vegas. But don't worry, they'll be back in my possession Friday and I WILL have it on me this weekend. Never gonna loan a guy my Aliens again after what happened last time I did that. At least I know this time I'll get them back. :wink:
Oh, and I did an online search too, they're new and all I could find online were the standard colors, none of the new stuff yet and since CCH doens't have a homepage that didn't really help anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
holdplease2
Dec 30, 2003, 5:53 AM
Post #10 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Dec 18, 2002
Posts: 1733
|
Yeah Beth! Even more to look forward too if I make it this weekend...(in indy now, so cant hunt down yer man's pack in vegas)
I do think they needed something between the red and yellow aliens...besides me on the occasional lonely night. ;)
-Kate.
|
|
|
|
|
vegastradguy
Dec 30, 2003, 7:11 AM
Post #11 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 28, 2002
Posts: 5919
|
i actually did find a website that was selling the #5 alien (the #4 had a pic of Yellow, the #6 was Red)...so, perhaps that was it. course, it was an aussie site.
(www.chockstone.org- go to shopping and the camming devices section)
i'll call Mike over @ DR in the next day or so and get back to everyone on this. unless someone beats me to it.
|
|
|
|
|
pbcowboy77
Dec 30, 2003, 9:08 AM
Post #12 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 9, 2002
Posts: 574
|
I looked at the site and the pic you saw was the Orange not the red. Size 4 is yellow, size 5 is red and size six is orange. Sorry for the bad news. That would be great to have a new size but I can't see it concidering CCH can't fill the orders of the other sizes. But if there is a new size I want one too.
|
|
|
|
|
pbcowboy77
Dec 30, 2003, 9:09 AM
Post #13 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jun 9, 2002
Posts: 574
|
I looked at the site and the pic you saw was the Orange not the red. Size 4 is yellow, size 5 is red and size six is orange. Sorry for the bad news. That would be great to have a new size but I can't see it concidering CCH can't fill the orders of the other sizes. But if there is a new size I want one too.
|
|
|
|
|
teddy
Dec 30, 2003, 10:30 AM
Post #14 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jul 2, 2003
Posts: 137
|
wow beth, you musn't trust this new cam much if u put this in Injuries & Accidents
|
|
|
|
|
bishopclimber
Dec 30, 2003, 9:55 PM
Post #15 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Sep 15, 2003
Posts: 193
|
In reply to: I do think they needed something between the red and yellow aliens...besides me on the occasional lonely night. ;) -Kate.
I also wouldn't trust the grey alien if I'm going to get injured.
|
|
|
|
|
scubasnyder
Dec 30, 2003, 9:57 PM
Post #16 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 3, 2003
Posts: 1639
|
i want one also
|
|
|
|
|
vegastradguy
Dec 30, 2003, 10:26 PM
Post #17 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Aug 28, 2002
Posts: 5919
|
i'm on the trail. hopefully i'll have info soon.
for all those interested in the CCH Homepage, outdates as it is, it's
http://www.aliencams.com
no info on a new cam there. sorry about the website before, you're right its orange. it was late...seeing things, you know how it is. hah.
|
|
|
|
|
iamthewallress
Dec 30, 2003, 11:08 PM
Post #18 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jan 2, 2003
Posts: 2463
|
The red/yellow hybrid has a grey sling, but the trigger loop is half red and half yellow. All of the hybrids have grey slings. The alien that I have that has both a grey sling and a grey trigger is the largest one...somewhere between the size of a #1 and #2 camalot.
Beth, is your new alien a red/yellow hybrid or is it a new "even" size btw yellow and red.
Thx.
Melissa
|
|
|
|
|
iamthewallress
Dec 30, 2003, 11:10 PM
Post #19 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Jan 2, 2003
Posts: 2463
|
A new size is cool, but they need to work on their color scheme. I have a grey alien that's about the size of a #2 camalot. All of the hybrids have grey sling too.
|
|
|
|
|
troutboy
Dec 30, 2003, 11:20 PM
Post #20 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Apr 25, 2003
Posts: 903
|
In reply to: Where can you get one....I looked everywhere I know of....I MUST have one, NOW ! Thanks in advance...... Rick
They have them here (or they did last week):
http://www.rocksnow.com/
You'll need to call. I don't believe they do mail order by internet yet.
This is the local climbing shop at the Gunks and you better act fast. These were discussed on the Gunks Forum www.gunks.com a week or so ago and Rock and Snow may have sold out by now.
Good Luck all. CCH is notorius for being out of stock.
|
|
|
|
|
tim
Dec 30, 2003, 11:28 PM
Post #21 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Apr 4, 2002
Posts: 4861
|
hey, speaking of out of stock, just to piss y'all off, I just scored a full set of aliens (blue through red, the only sizes I care about) for $100 on eBay. I had to re-tie some of the slings, and they look like hell, but they work.
:-D
(where is the "shit eating grin" smiley when I need one)
hail eBay. Praise eBay. I'm going to be selling a bunch of old rigid Friends and TCU's on eBay soon, take a gander if you want. Plus, now that I have doubles in the sizes I give a crap about, I won't be auto-searching for Aliens anymore.
(people buy things new/not-on-sale? on what planet does this happen? :-) I guess it's okay for gifts and all, I buy new gifts, just not new my-stuff)
|
|
|
|
|
moabbeth
Dec 30, 2003, 11:40 PM
Post #22 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Oct 22, 2002
Posts: 1786
|
In reply to: A new size is cool, but they need to work on their color scheme. I have a grey alien that's about the size of a #2 camalot. All of the hybrids have grey sling too.
I think those are the "white" ones, which are actually like a translucent whitish-grey color. This one is solid grey/silver in color and it's way smaller than "white" alien. It's perfectly sized btwn red & yellow.
Okay, I'm bringing this Alien out for a big show and tell this weekend so everyone believes me :wink:.
|
|
|
|
|
smithclimber
Dec 31, 2003, 12:12 AM
Post #23 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Feb 15, 2002
Posts: 338
|
In reply to: Seems that a size between the yellow and red is not really necessary, huh guess they thought it was.
I agree with Radistrad here. The yellow Alien is 3/4" and the red Alien is 1". I really don't think there's much necessity for what I presume to be a 7/8" size. Come on - we're talking about a mere 1/8". I've never had a placement where neither yellow nor red fit and felt I needed something in between.
And for all of you who feel you must "run out and get one now" I think maybe, just maybe, you folks are just a bit TOO preoccupied with your gear. It's called Climbing folks, not Gear Collecting (although some of you make me wonder).
This should be moved from "Injuries and Accidents" to "Gearheads" for sure!
|
|
|
|
|
flagstaff_climber
Dec 31, 2003, 12:17 AM
Post #24 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Mar 22, 2002
Posts: 310
|
In reply to: In reply to: Seems that a size between the yellow and red is not really necessary, huh guess they thought it was. And for all of you who feel you must "run out and get one now" I think maybe, just maybe, you folks are just a bit TOO preoccupied with your gear. It's called Climbing folks, not Gear Collecting (although some of you make me wonder). This should be moved from "Injuries and Accidents" to "Gearheads" for sure!
Yea, but Beth has one...... So I WANT ONE :)
Rick
|
|
|
|
|
smithclimber
Dec 31, 2003, 12:36 AM
Post #25 of 86
(15359 views)
Shortcut
Registered: Feb 15, 2002
Posts: 338
|
In reply to: Yea, but Beth has one...... So I WANT ONE :) Rick
So, IF Beth jumped off a building........
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
