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MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF GEAR:
OMEGA PACIFIC LINK CAM #1... BY PADDY SNOW – AMA VICE CHAIRMAN (SPORT)
Very heavy, very expensive, very
Alpinist magazine noted that “early
mountain E2s to my alarm and surprise, niche, and nigh-on-impossible to
marketing efforts pitched the Link Cam
I can assure him that there is certainly a get hold of since Omega Pacific
as a tool for the spatially challenged
market for this emergency piece of gear. went out of business in 2020, but still...
climber who just couldn't quite gauge
I was sold on first sight, and eventually the difference between a finger crack and
managed to source one from the US. It I first saw an Omega Pacific Link Cam
a fist jam, but was apparently so strong
sits on my harness, ready for that moment back in 2015 during training for an
that he didn't mind carrying a cam that
when I am severely regretting walking on expedition to Greenland. It was hanging
weighed about 20 percent more per
upwards past the Cromlech Boulders, off a friend’s rack, like a massive
equivalent cam”. Presumably the author
and wondering whether the small cam I albatross. It is, in short, a cam that unrolls
intended to suggest that it didn’t have
used 5m below was the exact size I need in 3 increments, giving a huge range of
a market. Speaking as someone who
to protect this crux move. At times like motion. It achieves this through cunningly
has, due to time pressure, drifted into
that, I don’t resent the extra weight. intricate engineering, and at significant
being a boulder-specialist, but every
cost in weight and expense.
few years still finds myself halfway up
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