The Black Diamond RURP is a realised Ultimate Reality Piton. Sounds a bit over the top? Maybe not- these are one of the coolest pieces of aid gear ever devised, and their advent opened up routes once thought impossible. If you need one, you know how good they are!
The Moses Enterprises Tomahawk is a hooking piton for use in thin seams. It is designed primarily as a thin nailing piece, requiring the use of a hammer, but can also be hand-placed into “beak slots” or natural constrictions in thin cracks. The design enables easier and quicker cleaning, to prevent the piece from becoming fixed.
The DMM Bulldog is an ice tool that offers protection on winter climbs and can be used in many features thrown up in winter. When suitable cracks are hard to find for wired nuts etc when on mixed snow an ice climbs, many climbers will seek out frozen turf or an iced up crack and reach for their DMM Bulldog. The bulldog is not as long as the infamous Warthogs so is particularly useful when the turf is shallow. It comes with a doubled 11mm dyneema sling attached for quick and easy extension.
The Black Diamond Pecker Pitons are designed to be used where knife blade pitons won’t fit or where the placement is more feeble. Due to the design of the peg the force is pulled downwards meaning that the pecker has to be pulled right through the crack for it to fail. Absolutely essential for big wall climbing and aid climbing.
The Black Diamond Bugaboo Pitons are the bigger and stronger brother to the knife blades, for when the cracks get fractionally bigger.
Established in 1977
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