A spring-loaded camming device (also SLCD, cam or friend) is a piece of rock climbing or mountaineering protection equipment. It consists of two, three...

Camming may refer to: Camming out Cam (bootleg) Spring-loaded camming device Electronic camming, a function of motion control Using a webcam Working as...

wave". cam A spring-loaded camming device (SLCD), also known as "friends", used as protection in traditional climbing. camalot A brand of spring-loaded camming...

Brazilian football team Cam ECS-12, a 2014 Nerf Blaster released under the N-Strike Elite series In climbing, a spring-loaded camming device Central attacking...

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climbing, spring-loaded camming devices are made from metal cams whose outer gripping surfaces are shaped as arcs of logarithmic spirals. When the device is...

spring-loaded camming devices (SLCDs) for protection, and advanced rope control devices such as self-locking devices (SLDs), progress capture devices...

Yosemite Valley. Jardine is noted for inventing and developing the spring-loaded camming devices (SLCDs, also called "Friends") with the late Mark Vallance,...

"active" traditional climbing protection in the 1970s—called spring-loaded camming devices (SLCDs, or "friends")—the grades of technical difficulty that...

Camalot is a brand of spring-loaded camming devices manufactured by Black Diamond Equipment used to secure ropes while rock climbing. Camalots use a dual-axle...

development in rock-climbing equipment (e.g. rubber shoes, spring-loaded camming devices, and campus boards) and of rock-climbing technique (e.g. jamming...

available. Such "clean" gear, as of contemporary times, now include spring-loaded camming devices, nuts and chocks, and slings, for hitching natural features...

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are smooth sided and parallel, necessitating the use of many spring-loaded camming devices and efficient crack climbing technique. There are now over 400...

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of the tricam. Tricams are not as easy to place or remove as spring-loaded camming devices (SLCDs) but are cheaper and lighter. Some cracks and pods too...

maker Samsonite in 2014. Notable Black Diamond products include spring-loaded camming devices called Camalot and Magnetron carabiners, auto-locking carabiners...

rock-climbing equipment, and is most noted for introducing the Friend, a spring-loaded camming device. The company is based in Tideswell in the English Peak District...

the form of removable protection, such as nuts, hexes, and spring-loaded camming devices. The other end of the rope is attached to the belayer, who remains...

hexcentrics and tricams (known as "passive" protection), and/or spring-loaded camming devices (or "friends", and known as "active protection"). Where the...

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uses the temporary protection of traditional climbing (e.g. spring-loaded camming devices) for placements; these are then removed by the second climber...

man-made climbing gear placed in the rock. Such gear includes spring-loaded camming devices, aluminum nuts used like chockstones, steel expansion bolts...

Jardine (1961), rock climber, adventurer, inventor of "Friends" spring-loaded camming device Sho Nakamori, artistic gymnast and member of the United States...

cracks. They are often preferred by alpine mountaineers over spring-loaded camming devices because of their lack of moving parts and overall lower weight...

could produce "friends". A particularly successful design was a spring-loaded camming device branded the 'Friend'. It was revolutionary as a form of climbing...

accommodate the protection (e.g. Separate Reality). The invention of spring-loaded camming devices in the 1970s revolutionised the difficulty of cracks that could...

starter was taken from the automotive industry and involved a spring-loaded cam device that would spin the propeller through a compression stroke by a...

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7C+ (V10) boulder problem. 1978 : Ray Jardine sells first spring-loaded camming device ("cams" or "friends"), which he invented years earlier, making traditional...