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Black Diamond

Climbing hardware, headlamps, and avalanche safety gear from a company that started as a machine shop under a rock gym.

Black Diamond Equipment spun out of the old Chouinard hardware business in 1989 and has stayed the default climbing-hardware brand since — cams, harnesses, and headlamps that show up on nearly every partner's rack regardless of what else they're wearing.

Our take

Their headlamps and harnesses win on being unglamorous and correct: no interface you have to relearn each season, no gear loop that fails under a real trad rack.

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