Entries filed under 'Petzl'

Tips and a Handy Form for Inspecting Your Climbing Gear

Climbers, when’s the last time you inspected your gear?  My rope, cams, stoppers, slings and carabiners have been tucked away in the gear closet for 5 months now, and it’s been longer since I closely inspected them. It's generally recommended that you take a good look at your gear at least once per year. Inspecting gear and deciding it’s time to retire it can be tough to do. The stuff isn’t cheap, and it’s hard to say goodbye to your favorite climbing rope or very first harness. To make the ...

Posted by Joe P. on May 2, 2011 4:36 PM & Tagged Climbing, Petzl, Rock Climbing, belay device, cams, harness, ropes and stoppers | permalink | Comments



OR Report 5: Cool New Items for Hikers

Here are a few of the interesting backpacking items of the future I spotted during the summer Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City: Petzl: Core Rechargeable Headlamp Battery On Nov. 1, the climbing hardware specialist will release its Core rechargeable battery, a flat, rectangular unit that occupies the same space that 3 AAA batteries now fill on current Petzl headlamps. The battery will fit existing Petzl headlamps in the Tikka series, from smaller Tikkina and Zipka models up to the ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on August 11, 2010 3:50 PM & Tagged Black Diamond, Core Battery, Marmot, Outdoor Retailer, Petzl, Plasma bags, Precip jacket and Z Poles | permalink | Comments



A Sneak Peek at New Gear: What Do You Want to Know?

Interested to know what clever new wrinkles will appear in next year's outdoor gear? Me, too. Got a few questions you'd like to ask? Great; send them my way and I'll add the best of them to my own list. Next week I'm zooming to Salt Lake City for a popular trade show known as the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, an annual preview party for outdoor gear due to arrive this fall, winter or in 2011. I have not previously attended OR (those 2 letters serve as the event's hipster shorthand), but with ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 30, 2010 6:34 PM & Tagged Big Agnes, Black Diamond. Jetboil, Brooks, Exped, Marmot, Merrell, Nike, Outdoor Retailer, Petzl, Saucony, Teva, Vibram Five Fingers and camelbak | permalink | Comments