HardGoods

McHale packs aren’t off-the-shelf clones. Each one is custom made in nearly unlimited options including your choice of fabrics, colors, top or panel loading, frame type and pockets.

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.

Sterling Nitro 9.8 climbing rope reviewed by Rock and Ice, the climbing magazine.

The Feroce is one of the best sport-climbing shoes I've ever worn.

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

Sterling Ion 9.5 climbing rope reviewed by Rock and Ice, the climbing magazine.

Streamlined, light as a snowflake and functional, the Ozone is marketed as a sport harness, but I’m using it for all types of rock climbing from cragging to multipitch trad.