Climbing Basics: How to Tri Cam! 

This is a seriously undersubscribed channel. Such good content.

0 downvotes. I repeat, “zero downvotes” You’re a legend

I got a set of tricams this past spring and they have quickly turned into my favorite piece of gear!

Awesome Intro! Your videos are entertaining and educational at the same time. Keep up the good work!

There are only pink tri cams. The others are a myth.

Also great in standard horizontal placements where you might otherwise use a totem or an X4 or something. Tricams are lighter, use up less space on your rack, you can save the cams for later on, the narrow head width fits similar irregular cracks to totems and X4s, and less likely to damage the tricam webbing over an edge where you would risk kinks in cam wires and stems if you whip.

Love the videos Josh. Keep it up mate

Great video's man! I found them yesterday and i love them

Good stuff, still haven’t tried these myself. Might just grab that pink one on your recommendation though, more gear is always a good thing.

Can't wait for your channel to blow up man. High quality content

I use tricams every time I lead in the Daks. Great for flaring cracks where nothing else will work.

pink red and brown are standard gear at the gunks....great to have as a save my cams for later piece!! also they rach super clean on the harness!!

Love your videos really inspirer me to go climb!

Thank you. Well done.

Been using them since they came out and they can really save you on certain types of rock. Sink the pink when all else fails.

Thank you, man!

Hey Josh good video and extra points for the DragonBall shirt

Nice!

Best intro on RU-vid!

Liked the tricams video much more than the nut video. I think it was the over setting of the nuts (in my opinion, of course) that put me off of that one. Keep up the good work! Many more likes than dislikes on this channel.

Killer intro!

Tricams are prob my #1 piece of gear when climbing the Water Gap. Super handy, although if your follower doesn't know how to take them out it can be easy to lose them...

this is awosme thanks

Nice video, subscribed

I just bought the SLACK t shirt its very nice and good quality thx mate

Awesome intro!

I'm yet to see these being used on British gritstone or lime yet. Cheers for the video though I might have to look around for some placements.

Nice video. I have an unrelated question / request. A guide I was with today didn't like the rope I had to make the prusik-block for rappelling. Apparently nylon is no good, it needs to have a kevlar core...? Why don't you do a video on rope and sling materials ?

I love tricams for holes and pockets

First, 'passive mode' in a constriction is as strong as the rock, the webbing, and the pin; the cammed mode can approach, but never exceed that ultimate strength, as the leverage magnifies wedging forces that can pop flakes, crumble weak rock, etc. The camming is initiated by the foot, which has to engage a pit, or crystal, or groove, etc. to stop it from just sliding out, as contrasted with spring loaded cams that can more actively initiate outward force to generate friction sufficient to stop sliding. Especially with larger ones, the foot is almost always going to be Down, because that's the way gravity and the tipping action sets it in. Larger Tricams with the foot up can just loosen with a sideways tug, and then its weight collapses it into a flatter profile where it will easily pull out. The foot generally needs to be oriented down in horizontal camming placements, so the dragging tooth will tend to catch, and tip/rotate the cam up, wider and tighter. As with many things, sizes range from best to least - 0.25, 0.5, 1.0 are the most useful, fitting into narrower and shallower placements, especially piton scars, with greater strength than SLCs in the same spots. Above 3, their weight creates issues of stability, and lots of compact SLCs fit better with no strength compromise.

Hi Josh

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Not sure where you are getting your strength ratings from @1:40. CAMP's website says a pink tricam holds 7kN in passive, and 9kN in active (www.camp-usa.com/outdoor/product/rock-protection/tricam/). Much higher than your reported (3/5 kN).

tricams are the dream protection of leaders and the bane of followers.

Tricams are awesome. I've once even tried placing them in vertical parallel cracks in active mode on my practice board. They would catch even if the crack was expanding top-down like so. ibb.co/KmxjFQH I haven't tried this in real rock yet, but I presume the LESS friction the stone gives the better their active action kicks in (hence they worked flawlessly on my board).

¿Have you ever read the boltin bible? ¿What you think about it?

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no such thing as "active mode" with passive gear. active requires an "active spring...

Man you are funny. Like best friend funny. But i can garanty that your kids won’t find you funny. Lol. But I will.