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...

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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

into which temporary and removable protection equipment (e.g. spring-loaded camming devices) can be inserted for their safety. Sport climbing dates from...

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 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...

hammering and only uses temporary removable placements such as spring-loaded camming devices. While aid climbing traces its origins to the start of all climbing...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...