CAMP USA

We've got the rules and PRIZES finalized. Over $1000 in Cash will be given out, and over $1000 in gear as well. Veteran division, womens division, and Youth (under 20) only had one or two teams enter last year, so two ladies who team up could easily walk away with $800 in cash and $800 in gear!

CAMP USA is teaming up with the American Alpine Club and several other area groups to put on this fall's Craggin' Classic at Smith Rock Oct. 12-13. We are hosting a 10-hour climbing competition and dontating hundreds of dollars in cash and gear prizes to the winning teams in 4 divisions. We're also handing out new gear to the teams with the best costumes, funniest team name, and those who pick up the most litter in the park. We'll have a division for teams over 45, under age 20, and all women, so here's your chance to go run yourself ragged for 10 hours at one of the PNW's best crags!

Hi Everyone, CAMP USA here. We sold less than 300 units of the Photon in the time between we released it to market and discovered the anomaly. The CPSC required us to list all of the units we had manufactured, but most retailers had not even gotten them onto the floors. If you do have them, please drop us an email at climbing@camp-usa.com and we will take care of it right away. It is a really strange and frustrating problem. On a very small number of units under a high load, the gate does a weird creep that then puts the biner in the open gate configuration. The reality of one actually breaking in the field is very small, but as we hold our customers' safety as our top priority we are pulling out all the stops. We are simply unable to devise a test short of breaking every unit to failure that would identify every affected unit (and every carabiner we make is already individually tested). So even if the percentage is miniscule, we have decided to pull them all back. We have already made the necessary tweaks to the mold and our Director of R&D is following the pre-production samples now. We will be testing the snot out of these, then we will move into production, test the snot of those, then re-release them. We expect them to be back in shops within 60 days. We apologize for the inconvenience and we look forward to your feedback once you have had a chance to clip them. The market feedback to date has been so strong that many of the climbers who had purchased them said they would miss them like a child in their absence! As a side note - NO OTHER CAMP CARABINERS ARE AFFECTED BY THIS RECALL - The Nano23 still rules as the lightest carabiner in the world, and the Orbit Wire gates are one of the best values in climbing. The Mach Express quickdraws do include Nano23's but they are only involved because they are part of the draw. Sincerely, CAMP USA Inc.