Coldfinger

My 2 cents with the Rambo/G14 is that the curly loop toe bail is the only one I've ever had pop off a boot. Seems Grivel pons are a bit heavy and a bit heavier than Grivel says they are. I have BD Sabers and have switched out the toe bails for Petzl toe bails and a much better fit.

Grivel made a great one, called the Cappucino, well worth the $$.

At a minimum a Gerber Ultralight LST with a cord lanyard clipped to the same biner as my abalakov hooker, here: LST Knife and if it's a long day and lotsa rock or thin ice a mill bastard file. Since I have Grivel tools no need for a wrench or pliers (fixed head), BD tools can be tightened with the pommel spike, so that's all. If I'm fishing too I bring a basic Gerber tool to fish out hooks. Long trips I bring a little swiss army knife that has scissors so I can cut my nails, skin flaps etc. and maybe a larger knife than the LST. Like to have scissors and a file if it's a multitool.

Well, google Petzl and you can find that info, was going to get freaked but..... Then I remembered Thamel and what gets sold there, bottom line is China is going to have to learn to respect property rights if it wants to deal with the West (irony--obviously we don't care enough about human rights). We ARE Capitalists after all.

It's apparently worse than that-----THEY DIDN'T EVEN DESIGN THE PRODUCTS!!!!! Not to make too fine a point here, but it is really important: It also seems that the "products" were not only NOT designed by Joe Garland, but they were NOT made by him either. He was NOT even a Mad Rock employee apparently; he was a contractor and no other person left Mad Rock's employment to go with him. SO WHO THE F IS "WE"?????? Joe apparently started another company, CLIMB X, and hired a new staff. He apparently struck a deal with Mad Rock's OLD factory and owner, who continued to pump out the same products with little or no modification. Alex, it seems to me you are continuing to falsely represent that "we" somehow means something it APPARENTLY does not. I'll let the good members of CC.com draw their own conclusions.

Just off the top of my head, kinda interesting how they DON'T have doubled slings (like the Dragons do) and DON'T come in 1.25 (Purple) and 1.75 (Green) sizes anymore, but DO have thumb loops. DMM and WC are very close in sharing production, so it seems certain decisions have been made to give each product line its own distinctiveness w/o disadvantaging the other. WC Heliums has more range and fewer units than Tech Friends, but less range in each unit than Dragons, and no color code matching below Size 2 Helium, Size 3 Dragon (Red). Interested to see the pricing....

Howdy all, just saw Wild Country has redesigned the Tech Friend (to be discontinued). Looks promising, less units and more range (but less than Dragon/Camalot) and lighter weight. Helium Friends For comparison, WC Tech Friends: Mountain Tools--Tech Friends & DMM Dragons.

Well looks like we should return EVERY TNF item we have ever bought from REI!!! I just needed a reason, thanks Glasgowkiss!

Horns are sweet, plus I'm not sure how well the slider slides if you tape the shaft.

It's just what happens when the pulling results in a stuck rope: not much fun climbing back up 2mm cord........

I'd also point out, as it has not been mentioned here, that a FEDERAL JUDGE ordered you to stop "[r]epresenting in any manner or by any method whatsoever that goods provided by any of the Defendants meet CE Certification, when they do not do so." Care to address that? I.E. why you have apparently been selling life saving products to this "community" you claim to love so dearly as if they are CE certified when they apparently ARE NOT??????? Seems like no small point to me.

Really?!?!?! Judges only grant preliminary injunctions when the Plaintiff can prove the "likelihood that it will succeed on the merits of the action". So how is it exactly that and when you posted this: "The same award-winning products." That BTW (as others here have observed) look IDENTICAL to Mad Rock's line and as Trogdor pointed out in the case of the very shoe you are "renaming" was named under a Mad Rock naming contest???? Then there's the "Galaxy" harness as has been pointed out here. Hopefully you'll have a LOT more time to climb, pretty sure this "community" will be watching.......

Hey one last name before I go and do something more important (skiing).... DF

Sure is, amazing what a little research digs up! Now did your company really say this? “… a new name has been chosen to set us apart and differentiate this company from the previous one: we are now Climb X. Same sales team. Same distributors. Same production facility. Same product development staff. The same award-winning products.” Found that here: Vikki Weldon blog She seems to suggest you were implying that you were a reincarnated Mad Rock. So I'd be interested to hear your take on this here on CC.com, care to reply?

Some lawyer in LA eh? How bout it was a Federal Judge..... Rad Moc er Mad Rock? Press Release Defendants CLIMB X GEAR, LLC, an Oregon limited liability company; CLIMB X, a Nevada corporation; JOSEPH GARLAND, an individual; and DOES 1 through10, inclusive, and each of them, and their respective officers, shareholders, agents, servants, employees, representatives and attorneys, and all those in concert or participating with them, or through them, be and hereby are restrained, during the pendency of this action, from engaging in, committing or performing, directly or indirectly, any of the following: 1. Using any Marks or any other confusingly similar phrase, designation or mark which is a colorable imitation of or is confusingly similar to Plaintiff’s Mad Rock Mark and/or Science Friction Mark in connection with the manufacture, production, advertising, distribution, offering for sale or sale of goods not originating from Plaintiff or authorized by Plaintiff. 2. Representing in any manner or by any method whatsoever that goods provided by any of the Defendants are sponsored, approved, authorized by or originated from Plaintiff. 3. Representing in any manner that CLIMB X GEAR is a continuation of Plaintiff and/or Mad Rock, and/or that Defendant JOSEPH GARLAND was a cofounder of Mad Rock. 4. Representing in any manner that any product of any of the Defendants is the exact same product as any product of Plaintiff and/or Mad Rock products. 5. Representing in any manner or by any method whatsoever that goods provided by any of the Defendants meet CE Certification, when they do not do so. Case 2:10-cv-06977-SJO -JEM Document 39 Filed 01/26/11

Poacher..... em Kermit..... uh the XZ (for Xie Zei)..... wait seems like this would fit what I've seen of your theme so far: Rad Ass......

I checked into the Esprit ropes and they're both heavy and expensive, then the nice lady asked for my SSN (yeah like I'm giving that to somebody in another country--even Canada and WTF for). So.... Seemed to me like you either do a 5mm pullcord or use a 7.7mm twin rope.

I've paired up a Beal Rando with 30m of 5mm Mammut pro cord pull cord. The Rando works quite well on its own as well.

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Actually dumbass, we all do. Kinda like how it's ILLEGAL to litter or set a forest on fire.

So when are you going to admit what we're talking about here--not to let the thread drift back to its point--the dude out and out lied, it was an obvious lie, still many so-called google experts believed him (and ranted and raved and were otherwise totally full of shit), kids got sick and died, and in the end the asshole got caught. Time to come on down from that tree or sign up for one of those 'Denali for Christ' climbs, either way, I don't care, the point has been settled: FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny, that. Minx has you pegged, but you do have a certain middle ages charm.

How 'bout: 'I was a fool for falling for a fraud.' Try saying that three times really fast.

Well well, the other shoe drops......... CNN) -- The author of a now-retracted study linking autism to childhood vaccines expected a related medical test to rack up sales of up to $43 million a year, a British medical journal reported Tuesday. The report in the medical journal BMJ is the second in a series sharply critical of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who reported the link in 1998. It follows the journal's declaration last week that the 1998 paper in which Wakefield first suggested a connection between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine was an "elaborate fraud." The venture "was to be launched off the back of the vaccine scare, diagnosing a purported -- and still unsubstantiated -- 'new syndrome,'" BMJ reported Tuesday. A prospectus for potential investors suggested that a test for the disorder Wakefield dubbed "autistic enterocolitis" could produce as much as 28 million pounds ($43 million U.S.) in revenue, the journal reported, with "litigation driven testing" of patients in the United States and Britain its initial market. Among his partners in the enterprise was the father of one of the 12 children in the 1998 study that launched the controversy, the journal reported.

You seem to know straw men as well as you now muppets.... Not that at all, just don't be surprised if the courts find the assassin sane/guilty. Can't have the cake and eat it too, the RECORD is well established as to what these folks say and think, I guess what seems righteous to them is quite ridiculous to me. Undeniably they attack the people who work in PUBLIC SERVICE as if they are destroyers of the very fabric of our country. Before you can kill the enemy you must dehumanize her. That rhetoric has gotten us to that point.