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Black Diamond Lost Arrow Pitons
Lost Arrows are the workhorse pins on any aid rack. They're used repeatedly and when possible, joyously driven to the hilt.They're tied off in bottoming cracks, beat into horizontals, mashed into corners, delicately driven behind flakes, and staked when all else fails. You name it, Arrows have withstood it.
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The Classic
By: Joe Spier
May 4, 2009
What can I say, it's a piton, pound away until it rings true!
Incredibly so. These are the pitons that made Black Diamond, back when it was just Chouinard making them himself out of the back of his truck. There is no way in hell you will ever bend or deform these in an kind of climbing application.
By: Angus Bohanon
April 12, 2009
You can bend and deform these from regular big wall use. Hammering them in and taking them out will definitely put some wear and tear on them, but they will stand up to alot.
By: Evan Stevens
April 15, 2009
Classic Aid Gear
By: summerprophet
January 11, 2008
Well lets put it this way, the design remains unchanged after fifty years. Does that mean it is outdated? No! It meanns that there is nothing to improve.
For the competent mountaineers to the Big Wall Pirate, these are tools of the trade.
NOTE: This is not the gear to buy if you are just starting out rockclimbing.
Don't try this at home
By: Sleepless in Seattle
June 23, 2006
What can I say? They're pitons. I hear they are ugly, but I don't use them on mountains. My climbing is in underwater caves, and pitons are the only secure way of "climbing" down against the flow of a 1st-magnitude spring. They hold well over time. I only wish I could get them in stainless-steel.
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