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Aliens are the bomb. I went for years without them, but now I couldn't lead unless I knew they were on my rack.

Hard to acquire, but absolutely the best smaller cams on the market. I have small cams from CCH, BD, and Metolius, and the Aliens are nearly always the cams I bring for any lead, especially an aid route. Hybrid Aliens, even more rare than regular Aliens, are so good for granite aid routes that it really should be considered cheating to use these in pin scars. The most versatile sizes are in the green - orange range. I find I like the larger two Aliens (purple and clear) less than similar sized cams from BD.

am still amazed how bomber these little cams are, yet so simple and sleek their design. very grateful to the many advice. the gray and yellow/red hybrid not on the standard rack, but both have been handy up the thin stuff. used to have double green camalots, but after one was dropped, have replaced that with the orange alien. the orange is slightly bigger but has a narrower head compared to the green camalot. have come across slots where the orange alien or the green camalot would fit better than the other

Aliens crush. Simple as that. I know several people with "yellow Alien stories" and I have one of my own -- 3x 15 foot swinging penji falls onto a yellow Alien I swore wouldn't catch a slice of bread. That piece was a gift from a friend (my most reliable climbing partner). Since then, I have doubled up on blue through red Aliens (the green and yellow are the most crtiical for many people) thanks to the magic of eBay, which often proved to have them in stock more often than stores do! I don't start up trad routes without at least a couple Aliens; every climb seems to have at least a handful of places to cram in a yellow or green Alien. Great, terrific, fantastic free climbing pro, and utterly indispensable on aid routes.