Grivel came out with the most gear out of any brand at the Outdoor Retailer trade show in 2019. Including new ice tools, a harness, a helmet, and belay device along with updates to existing ice axes and ice accessories....
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Below you’ll find all the new gear that’s coming in Fall 2019, that we saw at Outdoor Retailer (semi-annual outdoor trade show). The list is a little shorter than usual, partly because not as many...
Carbon fiber is used extensively for its unparalleled strength to weight ratio, stiffness, and vibration dampening characteristics. So why not use carbon for ice tools? Grivel may not be the first to make...
At 224 grams, Black Diamond claims that the Vision harness is the “lightest fully functional harness.” This statement is true if your definition of fully functional is: a dedicated belay loop...
It is rare for a climber to buy everything perfect the first time. Instead, a rack evolves over years and is dialed in alongside climbing preferences. Below you’ll find the wonderful story of the additive...
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This year at the OutDoor show in Freidrichshafen Germany we saw a over 100 new products that’ll be dropping in 2019. As always, the chase for the “lightest usable” gear was in full effect....
Ski mountaineering may sound niche, but CAMP is taking it to a whole new level, with 4 skimo crampon offerings along. Plus, they’ll sell (separately) a dyneema linking strap accessory that can replace...
With the Reactor, Black Diamond’s goal was to make a tool that fit in between the Cobra swinging powerhouse and BD’s mixed-heavy tools, the Fusion and Fuel. This means a tool designed to excel...
Black Diamond’s Ultralight Ice Screws promise to debut as the lightest ice screws on the market as they’re nearly 45% lighter than BD’s steel screws and 15% lighter than Petzl’s...
DU/ER sent us a pair of No Sweat Pants and requested we test them to their limits. They said we’d be amazed by their stretch (very true) and these pants would work great for climbing (mostly true)....
Mammut was one of the early companies to come out with a belay device that had semi-automatic braking power without moving parts (like the GriGri). The first version of the Smart came out in 2009. ...
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My name is Kurt Morrison and I’m an ACMG guide and climbing gear junkie based out of Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Working in gear shops for the past four years while completing my exams to become...
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