New WC Helium Friends

[Coldfinger]

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.

 

[Coldfinger]

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....