A Few Anchors

For many years I sporadically acquired pitons and other climbing anchors primarily for my own climbing use. I did not start cataloging my collection until 2024. At that time my collecting expanded, but there are too many anchors for me to assemble a comprehensive collection, and so I do not try to do so.

If you would like to see a proper collection, I recommend Marty Karabin's site:

I have not had time to research or test all of these in detail, and so I am only providing an image gallery at this time.

Pitons & Bongs:
(Includes hook-shaped pitons primarily designed to be
hammered into cracks rather than hung on ledges)


A5

Austrian

Black Diamond – Rurps & Peckers

Black Diamond – Lost Arrows

Black Diamond – Knifeblades & Bugaboos

Black Diamond – Angles

C.A.M.P. (Concezione Articoli Montagna Premana)

Cassin

Charlet-Moser

Chouinard

Claudius Simond

Clog

CMI (orig. Colorado Mountian Ind.)

Dmitrienko

Felix Ralling

Fritsch & Cie.

Gerry

Grivel

Hiatt

Holubar

Homemade (makers unknown)

Hope

ICI (石井)

Krok

Leeper

LONGware

lucKy

Peck

Pika

Salewa

SMC (Seattle Manufacturing Corp.) – Pitons

SMC (Seattle Manufacturing Corp.) – Bongs

Stubai

Turin

U. S. Army

Vertical

Uknown


Bashies & Heads:


Chouinard

Dolt

Fish

Forrest Copperheads (classified as Nuts)


Bolt & Rivet Hangers:


CanyonZone

Fish

Fixe

Kop de Gas

Leeper

Petzl

Raumer

Roland Pauligk

Salewa

SMC

Tebylon

Vertical Evolution


Snow Anchors:


Black Diamond

Clog

DMM (orig. [Denis] Morehouse Eng.)

MSR (Mountain Safety Research)

SMC (Seattle Manufacturing Corp.)

Yates


Ice Anchors:
(Includes hook-shaped pitons
meant to be hammered into ice)


Black Diamond

C.A.M.P.

C.A.M.P./Interalp

Cassin

Charlet MoserIce

Chouinard

DMM (orig. [Denis] Morehouse Eng.)

Irbis

Leningrad Experimental Shipyard

Lowe & Lowe/C.A.M.P.

Mountain Technology

MSR (Mountain Safety Research)

Salewa

Simond

Stubai

U. S. Army

Unknown


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