From trango@primenet.com Sun Mar 5 17:32:11 EDT 1995 Article: 29654 of rec.climbing Xref: dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU rec.climbing:29654 Path: dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!its.csiro.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.primenet.com!ip124 From: trango@primenet.com (Robert Ternes) Newsgroups: rec.climbing Subject: Re: Best Cams For First Rack Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 21:32:00 GMT Organization: Primenet Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ij64i$cpt@news.primenet.com> References: <1659109374.120913343@jgate.jeffries.com> <3ig0k3$h91@druid.borland.com> <3ih9ti$s1m@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip124.phx.primenet.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #2.1 elmar@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Elmar Stefke) wrote: short trad retro-enjoyment piece *snipped* You know, I really haven't read this group in a while, so I don't know if this thread is post-purchase or not: but, my position on cheap cams is firmly planted on Lowe Tri-Cams. These little babies rule. They're like $20/each, and the first five sizes are all ya need for small-medium cracks (the big TriCams get a little unstable for my liking.) Go spend your money, you embodiment of American frontier economics! Robert "I climb like Dennis Hopper on crack" Ternes trango@primenet.com