Kouba Abalak Camming Device | Set of 6 Passive Cams

I love tricams but not these ones

I love using tricams because they are awesome with holes and horizontal cracks. My first one is with a sling instead of wired and that works really well. I have been warned with the wired tricams but thought I would still give these a try. May be I should have listened. So far, I have only used the green one and it does work OK as a tricam. I could not use the smaller ones (white, yellow, orange) due the stiffness of the wires making it impossible to place them properly. The larger ones are probably OK but I have not come across a suitable crack for them yet. In the description, it says they can be placed as nuts. This is not true. Again due to the stiff wire, they could only be used as tricams. Also, when deployed, the wire could spring against the rock and I wonder if the wire would be damaged with repeated use. Some of the wire holes have very rough edges that could cut the finger so not impress with the craftsmanship. But overall, the whole design is being let down by the stiff wires. Shame. Updates after 6 months: I still can't use the small ones (while, yellow) but I have used all the others, mostly for making anchors at the top of the crags. They fit weirdly shaped cracks at the top really well when nothing else would fit and I love them for that. Using them has really speeded up the process of making anchors for me. For this reason alone, I will definitely recommand these tricams. I had one time needed to use a tricam during climbing. It was a short traverse with a horizontal crack. In this case, the sling tricam could not be placed securely but the wired version did. What I did not expect was that it would walk into the crack as I climb past it. And my second could not get it out (but luckily I could). So I probably need more practice for using them mid-route.

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