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tradmanclimbs
Aug 20, 2012, 1:27 AM
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Can't speak for your partner but there are lots of very good climbers who do not need or use tricams. I started out with a passive rack and certainly paied my dues 30 years ago with tri cams and hexes but could easily live without them. Every time I have done a route in the last decade where the guidebook warned that tricams were mandatory I have managed to protect it without said tricams. The black tricam is only 3kn. The same size BD TCU is 10 kn... whatever.. keep fiddleing as much as you want just be aware that it is a fettish and not the essentual big deal that the tricam groupies seem to have bought into...
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marc801
Aug 20, 2012, 5:45 AM
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tradmanclimbs wrote: Can't speak for your partner but there are lots of very good climbers who do not need or use tricams. I started out with a passive rack and certainly paied my dues 30 years ago with tri cams and hexes but could easily live without them. Every time I have done a route in the last decade where the guidebook warned that tricams were mandatory I have managed to protect it without said tricams. The black tricam is only 3kn. The same size BD TCU is 10 kn... whatever.. keep fiddleing as much as you want just be aware that it is a fettish and not the essentual big deal that the tricam groupies seem to have bought into...
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tradmanclimbs
Aug 20, 2012, 10:49 AM
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Mark. point is I can use them better than most yet mostly choose not to because most of the time there are better options. You are of course free to live in your little dream world where tricams are better than cold micro beer while the elightened ones know that tricams are the keystone light backwash swill of the camming devices
(This post was edited by tradmanclimbs on Aug 20, 2012, 10:31 PM)
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