Starting a Trad Rack

Screw tricams what you need is pitons

Tri cams = style points

hexes = mega style points

Not.... climbing fast, climbing clean, getting up big climbs are the what gets you style points.

lol style points, getting down safely is points, getting up and down depends on your style.

Eric Chabot wrote:Tri cams = style points hexes = mega style points

No doubt. When I hear that clinking cowbell noise at the crag I know some seriously heinous gnar is about to go down.

That, or someone is about to epic on Double Dip. Probably about 50/50 either way.

Hear the cowbells at Cathedral and it is 99% assured that someone is about to epic on Thin Air :)

I used tri-cams before I could afford a full rack of cams. I think it is all personal preference. I still use them often. They are lighter and cheaper. Once you get larger than the brown though you are better off with a cam in my opinion. Personally I love them.

Haters gon hate. If you lead supercrack at indian creek on hexes, you are a BAMF and receive the style points.

I would recommend a set of the DMM offsets nuts, master cams, and .5-#3 Camalots. your hexes will work as doubles for now. as for tricams, buy pink and if you like it buy more

I carry one large hex sometimes for noise effect...

ckersch wrote:Updating my list as follows, with a little more research: BD C4s - #.5 - 3 (x2) Totem Aliens - #.65, .75, .95 (seem to correspond to X4 .3 - .5?)

Quote from OP on page 1. Everyone missed it.
That is a rack that will get you up everything except offwidth.
No tricams or hexs required here. DMM offsets still a perfect compliment to standard rack of nut.

LCC-Climber wrote: And yet the cult following swears by them....

Because they're awesome. The new Camp tri cams (at least the smaller ones) now have stiffer slings on them, which IMO makes them a lot easier to place. I never go anywhere with the pink size anymore, and can almost always find a bomber place for it. Depending on the route I have even been known to *gasp*...carry ye olde yellow boat anchor sized tri cam.

In all honesty I took that thing up like two climbs, its huge...But if you need to huck a piece of gear mid route at a squirrel attempting to steal the lunch from your pack, its quite accurate and carries a lot of velocity.

Also, the post above is absolutely correct. DMM offsets are great!

I had that big yellow 5" tricam. Not sure how much they cost these days? If they were less than half the price of a #5 cam i would consider it as an option for the desert.

Nick Goldsmith wrote:I had that big yellow 5" tricam. Not sure how much they cost these days? If they were less than half the price of a #5 cam i would consider it as an option for the desert.

moosejaw has 'em: moosejaw.com/moosejaw/shop/…

Decent price, if I didn't have a whole bunch already I'd buy them for that.

Bought mine new when REI put them on clearance for $25.( bought a 6 and 7) Yeah, I do use them all the time in Pond Bank.

Those things are pricy...