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

ASMU (August Schuster, Münich)

Austrian

Black Diamond

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

Cassin

CCB (C. Christien, Bern)

Charlet-Moser

Chouinard & Chouinard/C.A.M.P./Interalp

Claudius Simond

Clog

CMI (orig. Colorado Mountian Ind.)

Dmitrienko

Dolt

Doug Black

Eiger

Fritsch & Cie.

Gerry

Grivel

Hiatt

Holubar

Homemade (makers unknown)

Hope

ICI (石井)

Japanese

Joanny

Kong

Krok

Leeper

Leningrad Experimental Shipyard

LONGware

lucKy

Moses

Omni International Distributers

Peck

Pierre Allain

Pika

Russian

Salewa

SMC (Seattle Manufacturing Corp.)

Stubai

Swiss

Tokyo Top

Turin

Ural–Alp

U. S. Army

Vertical

Unknown


Bashies & Heads:


Chouinard

Dolt

Fish

Forrest Copperheads (classified as Nuts)


Bolt & Rivet Hangers:


CanyonZone

Doug Black

Fish

Fixe

Kop de Gas

Leeper

lucKy

Metolius

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)


Austrian

Black Diamond

C.A.M.P.

C.A.M.P./Interalp

Cassin

CCB

Charlet-Moser

Chouinard

DMM (orig. [Denis] Morehouse Eng.)

Irbis

Leningrad Experimental Shipyard

Lowe & Lowe/C.A.M.P.

Mountain Technology

MSR (Mountain Safety Research)

Nester

Salewa

Simond

Stubai

Swiss

U. S. Army