Placing trad gear - cams and nuts

How to place cams and nuts / wires so they stick! The video also covers the basics of organising gear on your harness and considerations when placing kit into the rocks. Play safe folks!

[@vault_climbing]

"I would hang my gran off that" 🙂 haha - excellent video and really like the simple explanations of "angel" wings

[@renatosureal]

Thanks for the info; just what I needed to see !

[@reubenmains8653]

Crocs are the best approach shoes. I get a lot of looks at the crags and on the trails for them. But I swear by them. Comfortable, convenient, and they have solid tred and in sport mode they are undeniable.

[@sam_farns_climbing]

Crocs for the win!

[@HondoTrailside]

Not enough sole protection for me. But I gather there is a barista no slip version that at least has tremendous traction.

[@Captaraknospider]

Thank you for the video.

[@JD-wk4us]

What crag is this

[@HondoTrailside]

It is funny how many trad videos there are, stupid term, where you see someone lace up a crack with cams that was originally climbed with a pocket full of pebbles. The engineer in me loves cams, they are just so cool, and I bought them and used them when they came out. But they hit the climbing world with a lot of skepticism (at least in the columns). People are still dissing Jardine for one supposed crime or another, and you can imagine the sigh of relief that followed the news that Honnold had climbed The Phoenix unroped solo: "Take that, Ray!" Cams were the beginning of the end. If you can just move your top rope up the crack, why not pepper crags with bolts. Trad was more a rack of stoppers and eccentrics. And if you survived teaching yourself to use those, the idea you need instruction on placing cams is funny.

[@largeformatlandscape]

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