How to Use Cams While Top Rope Rock Climbing

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Hi! I’m Bill with Zoar Outdoor here on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are here today at Chapel Ledges in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the trustees of the reservations property. In this series, we are going to be talking about anchors for top rope rock climbing. Has the same factor of a stopper placement of how’s the structure of the rock. Good macro structure? Yep, that’s a good solid piece of rock. Good micro structure? Yep, nothing lose, nothing gravelly, nice crack. So the specifics of placing a cam is you want the compression of the cam to be somewhere in the mid range. You don’t want to have to squash it all the way and you don’t want it all the way open when it goes in. So if you can compress it about mid-way and get it in, that’s great. You want the cam’s to be even across the 4 of them or 3, if it is a 3 cam and you want to make sure that it is set back in there enough that it is not just teetering on the edge. So it’s got good macro structure, good micro structure, its compressed midway and each cam is working equally as hard as the rest. It is a nice solid cam placement.

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