Okay, so I've heard of a few small companies that make the best of a product in their field. For example Cold Cold World rucksacks, Cilogear rucksacks, and Stephenson's Warmlite tents (although the sheer amount of nakedness in their catalogue is striking).
I've only had experiance with Cilogear but have heard good things about the other. Does anyone know of any other such companies?
Also, anyone that has a Stephenson's tent, I'm just curious if they're as awesome as I hear...

Dana Designs old Bomb Pack was a great pack all around mountain pack. Still haven't seen a pack as good as that one.

You throw that out there and don't provide a link.

Sheesh.

http://www.warmlite.com/bags_In.htm

Montane - http://www.montane.co.uk

We're gradually getting less small, Montane is a fair sized company - though they do rock.
That reminds me - Buffalo.

True, Montane (and Rab for that matter) are fair sized companies, certainly not what I would qualify as "cottage" manufacturers. That being said, relative to the quality of Montane's gear, very few folks over on this side of the pond have even heard of them, much less own some of their stuff. As a happy Montane customer (Super Fly XT), I take every opportunity to let people around here know about their gear...

Recently picked up a beastmaker 2000 series to help get me through another wet winter and it is by far the best hangboard I have ever used and deserves a mention on this thread.

http://www.beastmaker.co.uk/

A good progression of doable to damn hard slopers, medium to tiny edges and a few oddball sloping 2 finger and mono pockets make it clear those brits know a thing or two about staying entertained when the rock is dripping wet.

Can you stick those slopers? We have a 2000 series as well. It's kick ass, but I wish it had yet a smaller crimp on it, but I just add weight.

I can stick the easier two angles okay (I nest my index finger for the 30) but I've been slipping off the 45. The exciting thing about the beastmaker is that I can nest/not nest, get my thumb involved or not and sand the slopers with various grit sandpaper to make them easier or harder...its the first system i've seen that seems to let you easily progress to harder and harder slopers/open handed positions.

That small edge feels pretty small to me after spending last winter hanging a 3/4" campus rung but that rad that you've got them dialed in...have you tried working 3 and 2 finger grips on it or sanding it with fine grit paper to make it slicker?

I can stick the easier two angles okay (I nest my index finger for the 30) but I've been slipping off the 45.

"nest" now gets added to the most disliked terms used by climbers.

Cheers,
Rob.calm

My record on the 45 sloper non-nesting is about 1.5s, but that's from swinging foreward slightly.

The smallest edge is just right for me to use as the 10s hang for complex training, but I have to add a ton of weight to use it for the 4s hang. That's my only problem with it. My record on the 45 sloper non-nesting is about 1.5s, but that's from swinging foreward slightly. They are the toughest slopers on any board I've seen. I also love the versitility of the pockets (a big weakness for me).

First mountaineering, then crag climbing, then bouldering, then climbing indoors. Now we have competitive hangboarding. Sungam's post marks the official end of rock climbing.

Gratias et valete bene!
RobertusPunctumPacificus

First mountaineering, then crag climbing, then bouldering, then climbing indoors. Now we have competitive hangboarding. Sungam's post marks the official end of rock climbing.

Gratias et valete bene!
RobertusPunctumPacificus

I think someone mentioned Onsight Climbing out of Squamish or maybe it was in another post. Does anyone have a link to their page, it didn't seem to work when I tried.

LOL! Actually, if you download the .pdf catalog there's even more nekidness. It's circa '70s nekidness, but nekidness all the same. Ladies, as any guy will tell you, "once you've seen one set of boobies...you want to see them all."

http://www.warmlite.com/cat-web.pdf

There's a little company called CCH that makes the best camming devices.

...Dana dseign is now mystery ranch packs ...

The best products they make are the Terra line and their wind jackets. Just amazing.

Dana Designs was purchased by K2 Skis, which is hardly a small company, in 1996. K2 purchased Marmot, another hardly-small company, and merged it with the Dana Designs brand in 2006.

http://danadesign.com/

Sorry, dude. But Dana Designs ain't the small company you think it is.

YES dana design is and still is a big company.
But mystery ranch is still a small company and there packs kick ass
Dana Gleason the origonal/founder of dana design sold the name off in about 95'. Now what use to be the old dana design company (located 10 miles out side my home town) is now know as mystery ranch packs, and Still owned by Dana Gleason, And there pack still kick ass

http://www.mysteryranch.com/....12/category.1975/.f