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offset aliens or master cams?
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In starting to look into buying some offset cams, mainly for yosemite granite and Zion bigwalls. Did anyone have experience with both models or have a preference? I'm less about the price difference than the overall performance and ease in use |
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Aliens have a far "stickier" aluminum, enabling them to "stick" in blown-out pinscars in Yosemite that Mastercams might not. As a downside, they do wear out faster. In short, buy aliens. |
ClimbingOn wrote:Aliens have a far "stickier" aluminum, enabling them to "stick" in blown-out pinscars in Yosemite that Mastercams might not. As a downside, they do wear out faster. In short, buy aliens.This was true of CCH. They had a T6-6061 aluminum that wasn't as hard as that metal should be. Is this true of Totem or Fixe? That "stickiness" was a positive effect of a quality control issue. |
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We had a set of CCH Alien hybrids and a set of offset master cams for a climb of Mescalito on El Cap a couple years back. I've always been an Aliens guy but found the master cam's head to be a little narrower and a better fit in several pin scars. By the top of the route I felt like the offset mastercams were better. |
