Nuts and Cams

Same quality cams as before---just better!

Special Guest Kolin Powick, Climbing Category Director at Black Diamond, talks cams with Francis. The brand new Z4s, the old line up, the technology, and one very interesting cam at the end.... watch to find out!

Some of the best chocks available for tricky shaped cracks, and very light.

Wild Country’s Helium Friends are a new and different take on the Friend. The first thing you might notice is the name. “Helium” replaces “Technical Friend,” and with a change like that you would expect these cams to be lighter.

Black Diamond’s X4s are a big addition to small protection. Even boiled down, their nuts and bolts are a mouthful: The six sizes protect from .33 to 1.62 inches, have four cam lobes and a narrow head.

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.

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