The Camalot was the original extended-range cam and, in many respects, remains the pick of the litter. Already the backbone of a lot of racks, Camalots still stack up well against all newcomers....

These tiny nuts are a compound of copper and iron machined to offset wedges and swaged with a patented technology that Black Diamond claims is strong, flexible and not prone to fraying. These are the next-generation RP....

The key to trad climbing is the same thing that's necessary for success in any bold endeavor: balls.

I got my balls, or more precisely, Ball Nuts, in 1992, and have used them on almost every gear route since....

Jesse and I couldn't contain ourselves. Gunning to link Eldo's Great Zot (5.8) with Rewritten (5.7), a five pitch loose, discontinuous crack line, we had brought a rack of 36 CAMP Tricams and 10 draws....

This year, Climb Tech is offering a redesigned removable bolt (RB) that works better and is far easier to clean than the original model. The RB, basically a ball nut engineered to fit a drilled hole, has been around for 11 years and has been employed extensively by climbers all over the world, mainly as a way to aid steep walls and roofs that lack features to hook....

Metolius hit a homer with this departure from their usual U-stem cam design....

It took the Stanford-educated engineer and physicist John Field three years of lab work to perfect the asymmetrical design that gives the small Supercam its 1.22-inch range while maintaining a strapping 13.3 kN holding force....

The Omega Pacific Link Cam is so evolutionary it’s practically a new species....

In a strict contest of camming range, the Linkcam is the decisive winner—each of the two sizes expands at least 2.5 times its minimum size, giving the units an astounding range....

Little WondersTesting the new Crop of Tiny CamsThere's something sinister about minuscule active gear. Those perfectly machined little screws and bolt......

The Maxcam is heralded as the first cam with an asymmetrical design (the inner cams are longer than the outer lobes) and floating axles....

Wild Country Superlight RocksNearly 30 chock shapes jam sales bins, so you wouldn't figure it possible - or necessary - to introduce yet another version.......