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Cams vs torque nuts

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I notice in a large majority of pro photos trad racks seem to be very much dominated by cams, in most photos I have seen recently no nuts feature.

Is it now common to rack up just cams?
 Dell 15 Mar 2017
In reply to benmason:

Americans love their cams, and will carry the very small ones over a set of nuts.
Hexes(torques) are better on some limestone routes than cams.
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 HeMa 15 Mar 2017
In reply to Dell:

> Americans love their cams, and will carry the very small ones over a set of nuts.

Which you'll understand when you're on a sustained 50m splitter finger crack. Try to fiddle in nuts from a rather straining position to a splitter with no constrictions vs. Slap in a cam.

 Greasy Prusiks 15 Mar 2017
In reply to benmason:

I'd say it's very unusual to just carry cams and no nuts outside of Indian Creek Et Al.

Carrying cams instead of hexes is pretty common.
 beardy mike 15 Mar 2017
In reply to benmason:

In the states you often see climbers carrying mainly cams and only a few nuts, maybe a maximum of 10. Personally I don't carry hexes - never got on with them and they just serve to make me sound like an alpine cow; they just sit there till I get to the top so might as well not bother.

PS I climb mainly on limestone and dolomite and don't seem to have a problem...
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