billcoe Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 Opps, Metolius Offset Mastercams (sorry, bit of tongue in cheek satire there for folks who were complaining about my "New DMM "Camalots" post:-) THESE ARE ON THE WAY TO RETAILERS NOW (they say)!!! Per Vegas Trad guy who is doing the Outdoor Retailer show in Vegas right now, these are his pictures and the link is the full blog with bunches of interesting things for aspiring gear whores and sycophants like moi. http://www.rockclimbing.com/Articles/Gear_and_Reviews/Outdoor_Retailer_Summer_09_Day_1_1051.html I will say that I love the CCH Alien dual colored plastic coated cable loop scheme which makes identification real fast and easy. I don't see that on these but rather a brand new idea for color coding offsets. It could just be that I need a moment to get use to their new color coding idea where the plastic is the large cams color and the webbing is the small size. I'm trying hard not to sound like and old man here fully stuck in his ways...but I'm failing damnit all. Regards Quote
denalidave Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 And just when I thought I did not need any more cams... Shaweet! Quote
billcoe Posted July 23, 2009 Author Posted July 23, 2009 Where's the racoon picture? Coming up Boss! opps (but you can tell this kids gonna be a climber......) Quote
JosephH Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I don't know if that will be the final way they do the color markings or not, and I agree the coloring on the Alien Hybrids is a nice approach. I've been testing a set of these for a couple of weeks now and I did end up racking them on a different color biners than the rest of my rack so I could tell the difference. They are essentially plug-compatible with the Hybrids and I'm definitely popping for a set or two of them given I sent all my Hybrids to Aric for his RC.com testing thread. Quote
billcoe Posted July 23, 2009 Author Posted July 23, 2009 I don't know if that will be the final way they do the color markings or not, and I agree the coloring on the Alien Hybrids is a nice approach. I've been testing a set of these for a couple of weeks now and I did end up racking them on a different color biners than the rest of my rack so I could tell the difference. They are essentially plug-compatible with the Hybrids and I'm definitely popping for a set or two of them given I sent all my Hybrids to Aric for his RC.com testing thread. Just some internet gear protocol, when complaining about ones gear and another goes "send them to me", they are joking..... (I'm teasing of course: I have 4 full sets of Offset Aliens but found it much easier to just send Aric some money ($50) so he could buy his own as he was getting them for cost). I know you don't want to climb on anything CCH makes given all the facts and probably didn't want to sell them so as to foist that issue on another so your solution was very generous. How many did you contribute? Quote
JosephH Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 Ha! No, I just figured I ought to put some cams up to back what I've been saying given Aric was nice enough to put test rig together. I sent him 7 of the 8 I had. I kept the one green/yellow as that's the first piece off the YW p1 anchor on Lost Warriors. Glad the MC Offsets are about to be available so I won't need it either. Quote
denalidave Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I was about to upgrade my Camalots to the C4s (mine are the last generation) till I saw the thread about the DMMs. Now I guess I will wait till February and then make the upgrade. Quote
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