![The smooth trigger action and the sticky-rubber like traction of the soft alloy lobes are just two components that make the Alien Revolution a great choice for mountain missions. Dave Allfrey and Luke Holloway plug and play a few ridges south of Mt. Whitney (Tumanguya), California. [Photo] Tad McCrea](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xfixe-alien-revo-cams-1-1-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.GgnSMaV4O-.jpg)
Tad McCrea used the Fixe Ultralight Alien Revolution cams on 20 big routes in the Sierra Nevada Range this past summer and he was very… Read More »Fixe Ultralight Alien Revolution cams: Otherworldly friends to have on your rack
![Tad McCrea storms the ice cream factory with the new Petzl Quark ice tools on Super Domo (WI5 M5/6, 500m), Cerro Domo Blanco, Patagonia. [Photo] Jon Griffin](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xpetzl-quark-1-2-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.FKvUClg7C4.jpg)
Alpinist Tad McCrea has been using the latest model of the Petzl Quark ice tools for the past year. As a longtime user of the… Read More »Petzl Quark ice tools: An alpinist’s dream tool that handles it all
![Mike Gimli Able puts the Cnoc Vecto and Versa Flow Gravity Water Filtering System to the test in the low lands of Aconcagua Provincial Park, Argentina. [Photo] Tad Mccrea](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/xvecto-versa-flow-filter-1-2-930x620.jpg.pagespeed.ic.HQe_dWut0f.jpg)
Tad McCrea used the Cnoc Vecto and Versa Flow Gravity Water Filtering System on an expedition to Aconcagua where the rivers ran thick and brown… Read More »Cnoc Vecto and Versa Flow Gravity Water Filtering System is light, efficient, compact
As the austral summer approaches, videographer and climber Tad McCrea reminisces about climbing seasons past and offers a bit of advice to climbers everywhere: “[S]cour… Read More »The Patagonia Climbing Season is Coming
National rowing champion at the University of Washington and world-traveling American Alpine Institute guide Tad McCrea takes us through a journey of his most recent… Read More »Fortune Favors the Brave
Last month and on the heels of unforgiving winter conditions, Dustin Byrne and Tad McCrea landed at the Mountain House in the Ruth Gorge. Prior… Read More »Ham and Eggs
