A Few First Impressions (Gear Post)

A few first impressions of some new gear I’ve been using over the past couple [...]

Field Tested: Black Diamond Aspect/Lotus Harness

There’s a cooking show called “In Search of Perfection,” in which one of the world’s [...]

Comparison: Warm Gloves

Every cold weather snap finds me digging through the box of gloves in the closet, [...]

First Look: BD Cobras

We might as well address the elephant in the room: Black Diamond tools have a [...]

First Look: Black Diamond Magnetron

Black Diamond announced carabiners with magnetically-locking gates — dubbed Magentron — in mid July 2011. [...]

Field Tested: Black Diamond Gridlock

Utterly simple in its design, foolproof in operation and flawlessly effective, Black Diamond’s Gridlock belay [...]

Comparison: Belay Devices

There are probably a hundred different belay devices on the market, yet around here, only [...]