Documenting the evolving tools of our vertical world
Sometimes refered to as the “swivel of death”, these first generation Kirk’s Kamms were one of the interesting first steps into cam design and workable active protection. All though these pieces seldom inspired much confidence as lead...
These two Crack Tacks from CMI (Colorado Mountain Industries) are unopened original stock. The industry term for old but new retail merchandise is New Old Stock often shortened to NOS. It is interesting to...
C.M.I. published this catalog in 1988 showcasing their product line. New for that season were the RoKJoX “cammable nut” as its called in the catalog copy. RoKJoX were an interesting idea and worked well...
Selected pages from the 1968 Matterhorn Equipment catalog.
CMI Crack Tacks were postage stamp size pitons available from the mid to late 1960s through the late 1970s. Their basic design was similar to the bigger knife blade style pins from Chouinard but,...
