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tanner
Oct 8, 2002, 4:17 AM
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The Pink tricam... Never leave the ground with out one. Its the perfect size. It seems to have a bomber place in every climb. ITs really light and cheep. I just don't like having to clean them.
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jetace
Oct 8, 2002, 4:21 AM
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mememe, I love all tricams, especially pink, it is such an awesome pro device
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stevematthys
Oct 8, 2002, 6:00 PM
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yep, they are the shiznit
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bigdan
Oct 8, 2002, 9:28 PM
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The only place I´ve ever used a pink tricam was in Garden of the Gods. Nothing else will fit in some of those tiny potholes or drilled pin scars.
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thrillseeker05
Oct 8, 2002, 9:58 PM
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Do you like the pink tricam over an alien?
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tanner
Oct 8, 2002, 10:09 PM
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Pink triCam over an Alien?
I Don't use aliens, BD for me. Some times I like the Pinkie better eg. pockets and pin scars as well as I save my cams for when I need somthing faster to place. however With practice the pink tricamp is realy fast and easy to place. Cams of the same size are much heavier. I also Use the Tri cam as a fist placment often because I can realy set it and Wouldn't have waisted a cam early.
[ This Message was edited by: tanner on 2002-10-08 15:10 ]
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josher
Oct 8, 2002, 10:09 PM
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Bought one off ebay. Thing was old and ratty, but I still use it.
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rollingstone
Oct 8, 2002, 10:16 PM
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Check this thread in the Gear forum. It was covered in August:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=12877&forum=40&26.
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tanner
Oct 8, 2002, 10:31 PM
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That poem is rad!
Tri cams and Pasive pro are the best for setting anchers!
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astone
Oct 9, 2002, 12:00 AM
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I hate all tricams!
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bcmtngrrrl
Oct 9, 2002, 5:25 AM
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tanner
Oct 9, 2002, 5:50 AM
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betaben
Oct 9, 2002, 11:35 AM
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I love my tricams! I carry a full set,except the really big one, all the time. the pink one is great but you have to be carefull how you place it because it gets stuck pretty easy!
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mike_gibson
Oct 9, 2002, 12:19 PM
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Camp should make another size lower than the pink. I have doubles on the three smallest including pink, but I often encounter placements where the pink is too big leaving me wishing for a smaller tri-cam.
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tradguy
Oct 9, 2002, 12:30 PM
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Waste of money, space, and weight. I have the smallest 6 tricams and never use them since I purchased cams. Don't even carry them on my rack anymore. Often I don't even take them out of the gear tub in my apartment anymore. They take too long to place and too long to clean, and get stuck too easily. Cams, nuts, even hexes are easier to work with.
Sorry, I just don't see the obsession with tri-cams.
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neph
Oct 9, 2002, 5:46 PM
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I love tricams, especially the pink one. When I started builing my trad rack, I bought a set of tricams up to (i think) the #3.5. I now have on my rack: 3 pink ones (bought an extra one and bootied one) 2 reds (bought a 2nd), and one brown. All the bigger sizes are in my pile of gear i never use. I think the smallest 3 sizes are indespensible, especially since I learned to lead on a mostly passive rack.
-Nate
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stoutclimb1
Oct 9, 2002, 6:30 PM
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in certain circumstances there great but most of the time I dont like em
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transse
Oct 9, 2002, 6:40 PM
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Small tricams rule. I have the first 4 and wouldn't lead a route without them. I filed an extra pink down a bit in order to fit smaller placements, and it seems to work fine. Now if they only made an offset version.....
Jake
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tigerbythetail
Oct 9, 2002, 10:21 PM
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Love it (and the red one too)- wish they made smaller sizes...
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tanner
Oct 9, 2002, 11:00 PM
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I wonder if it would be possable to make tri cams much smaller with out messing up the way they work?
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darkside
Oct 9, 2002, 11:58 PM
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AND... they work in iced up cracks. It's not only screws I have on my ice rack, tri-cams and pitons have their place too.
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tanner
Oct 10, 2002, 12:02 AM
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In wet cracks they are realy good because when set the tricam tooth realy digs in to the rock. A bomber nut placment works well in the wet aswell
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jbrd528
Oct 16, 2002, 4:08 AM
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the 3 smallest are great. I have done found them to be usefull on solution pockets in slab routes (whitehorse NH), where nothing else will really work. If you climb at the gunks then you most likely have the pink tricam.
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agentoffortune
Oct 16, 2002, 5:13 AM
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Gotta love the tri-cams. Easy to place and lightweight.
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Amen! The pink TC has come to the rescue on granite, limestone, basalt, and perhaps the softest "climable" sandstone in the Southwest! Don't leave the ground without one!
Interesting note, the pink is the only one which ALWAYS goes with me!
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