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 | | The Best Locking Carabiners
What is the best locking carabiner for rock climbing? We compared 15 of the best locking carabiners in a variety of tests to find out. We judged each carabiner on the following six categories: lightne...
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Best Locking Carabiner
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Jul 03, 2010 |
| | The Best Quickdraw for Climbing
What is the best quickdraw for rock climbing? We compared 13 of the best in a variety of tests to find out. We judged each quickdraw in the following five categories: ease of clipping, ease of unclipp...
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Best Quickdraw
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Jan 26, 2011 |
| | The Best Carabiners for Climbing
What is the best carabiner for rock climbing? We compared 15 of the best carabiners in a variety of tests to find out. Each carabiner was judged on the following six categories: ease of unclipping, ea...
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Jun 11, 2010 |
| | Petzl Attache 3D
The Petzl Attache 3D locking carabiner from Petzl is a new version of the classic Petzl Attache carabiner that is 37 percent lighter and about 37 percent more expensive than the original. We found the...
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Jan 19, 2010 |
| | Wild Country Helium
This carabiner is one of the most innovative on the market. It has a hooded nose that brings the best of both worlds: the light design of a wire gate and the ease of removing from bolt hangers (someth...
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Apr 13, 2010 |
| | Black Diamond Rocklock
The Black Diamond Rocklock is Black Diamond's largest belay and rappel locking carabiner and it's an overall great deal. It was the highest rated $10 carabiner and scored only behind the Petzl Attache...
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Apr 09, 2010 |
| | CAMP Nano 23
The CAMP Nano 23 is the lightest carabiner made as of this writing. The small size is best suited for alpine or traditional climbing but also makes a great biner for clipping small hangers or links on...
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Apr 13, 2010 |
| | Black Diamond Oz Quickdraw
The Black Diamond Oz Quickdraw is a lightweight small to medium sized, multiple use, wire-gate quickdraw.
This is one of our favorite lightweight quickdraws. There is no easier and simpler wa...
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May 16, 2010 |
| | Petzl Attache
The Petzl Attache used to be hands down the best compact belay carabiner but now it has some tough competition. The Metolius Element is cheaper and slightly lighter and smaller. We like the Attache mo...
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Feb 09, 2010 |
| | Black Diamond Oz
The Black Diamond Oz is a lightweight (28 grams) small to medium sized, multiple use, wire-gate carabiner. When Tommy Caldwell first handed me an Oz Quickdraw, I had to lift it up and down a few times...
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Mar 22, 2010 |
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Apr 19, 2010 |
| | Black Diamond Hotwire Quickdraw
This was the first quickdraw we know of made with the revolutionary "wiregate" design. While once it was the only one, there are now many to choose from. Still, this remains a solid quickdraw at a goo...
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Jan 25, 2011 |
| | Wild Country Nitro
The Wild Country Nitro is one of the best values in a sport climbing
carabiner. It scored near the top in all our tests but is often 50% cheaper than the carabiners that scored higher. It has a n...
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