couchmaster



climber Jul 28, 2015 - 05:36pm PT





Haha, I think I almost just turned back to the Cosmic way:-) Was out aid climbing a bit ago on a longer stranger line and noticed that it's easy to jingus up a biner. Fella I was climbing with had the old school fat biners. I had the new light as a womans thong things. I have a crapload of the baby Camps that Chris likes, and a bunch of lightweight Wild Country helium and Nitros as well.



The baby Camps, just looking at a worn one while way up off the deck and your body weight is on it and it's laying strange on the rock: whew. Old and fat isn't just my body type any more, think I prefer the old school biners as I got a warm fuzzy given how much material there was. Unfortunately, I'd long ago sold almost every fat one I own. I have @ 10 on my Toprope only rack. I remember getting a buck each for my beater Eiger Ovals (think I paid $2.00 for them brand new), tried to dissuade my buddy Mike from buying them as they only tested 1800 lbs (closed) when new and they'd seen some pretty solid mileage, but he said "hey, I'm only using them for aid, doesn't matter". Haha.



Thanks for the heads up on the Petzl. I have a policy to not to be an early adopter and buy new Black Diamond and new Petzl items which this incident reinforces. If that had been a first draw on some of those super high first bolt Smith Routes, OMlord.....could have been ugly. Needs a o'ring/string on the upper end as well.



