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Totem cams and two-lobe placements... 26-Jul-2011 At 12:31:21 AM Fish Boy

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On 25/07/2011 patto wrote:
>On 25/07/2011 Fish Boy wrote:
>>http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/981097/1
>>
>>^^^^Excellent info right there
>>
>>In short, it confirms everything we knew all along: when it comes to
>marginal/offset/tric
>>y placements, Aliens are still the best.
>
>How is that excellent info? As far as I can see that is one persons opinion.
> Furthermore the soft lobes of aliens are advantagous in course granite
>but aliens are inferior on smooth araps sandstone.

Not opinion (which is what comes out of your mouth since you don't fall on gear!) but experience. I'd take it over anything else I have read about them. Since you don't fall on gear you certainly wouldn't be loading two lobes of a specialist piece...just looking for an argument.