![]() ![]() This may have helped with it not walking out of place and pulling, or getting stuck in the crack. I've found in a few placements where I opted to clip the rope right into the racking carabiner that the stem would bend in the direction of pull when I was climbing off to the side. The other advantage is that the stem is more flexible than C4 Camalots. Once you get to size 6, 7, and 8 I find the narrower head width of the cam is less of an advantage at that point, but you still have the highly sprung lobes and greater holding power. It doesn't seem like much, approximately the width of one of the C4 Camalot's lobes in the smaller sizes, but it allows a surprisingly noticeable increase in versatility in placements that aren't perfect parallel sided cracks where you don't have a lot of room for the placement, or you have irregularities in the rock you have to work around. In addition the width of the cam is narrower than C4 Camalot's. I have not encountered this issue yet, so I can't say one way or another. I've heard one local climber express concern of not being able to pull the trigger on a Master Cam when really pumped on a climb. Even sizes 00 and 0 which are rated at 5kN and thusly not a full strength piece seem exceptionally solid. 5 which I find more difficult to set well than the larger sizes. I find them much more solid than C4 Camalots, particularly sizes. This shows very much in how solidly they place, how resistant to walking they are, and how solidly they set without much pulling on the sling to do so. Here's what impressed me, they're sprung much harder than C4 Camalots, and they have a lower camming angle sacrificing expansion range for holding power, although only having one axle as opposed to C4 Camalots two axles also effects it's narrower expansion range. Initially I only bought size 00 to 4, but after a few hours of ground placement practice with them I was so impressed I bought sizes 5 to 8 too. Metolius cams are manufactured in the USA. 3 to 4 (made in China versions, if that matters). My comparisons to other cams is my set of Black Diamond C4 Camalots. I recently bought a full set of the new Ultralight Master Cams and thought it would be nice to type up a review here.
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