The 8 Best Mountaineering Helmets

Yeah man here we are face of the load C face. This is where we crush the vert. There is no substitute for pitch, and this is where it starts. A climbing helmet should do two things: protect your head and be reasonably comfortable. This BD Half Dome does those two things really well, it’s pretty lightweight. It’s got great ventilation, nice little adjustment system back here clips for a headlamp and really that’s about all you look for in a helmet.

When you put this thing on, you should go climbing and forget about it. You.

For the Colorado Mountain School and I’m going to share my thoughts about the Black Diamond Half Dome helmet, so this helmet comes in a variety of colors and personally I like brighter colors, so that when I’m out in the backcountry and I somebody might be looking for me, I like bright stuff. So people can find me this helmet has variety of different features.

So we have the clips for the headlamp and I have actually used headlamp on this helmet multiple times, and these clips hold pretty well, they hold the straps for the headlamp pretty well. Some adjustment features I really like this, because I can use it with gloves it’s pretty flexible, so it moves around I, don’t have to dig up under the helmet with thick gloves on I can pull it down and it just twists to get looser tighter.

If you take your your hat on your warm hat on or off underneath this clip, sometimes you’ll find helmets that have fixed, strap here, but this one you can adjust it as the day goes on and you want it tighter or looser, and these are just super easily up and down. You can pull one tight one loose to get it exactly where you want it under your ears and not too far up on your jaw and your face.

One thing about this helmet is a hard shell helmet. So there’s a different. You know two different main kinds of helmets so for a hardshell helmet. This is about as light as it gets, and lightweight is definitely what you want when you’re climbing in alpine and hiking lots of miles carrying all the gear there, you have so and I like hardshell helmets for alpine climbing, because a lot of times you have a helmet on the outside of your pack or you’re, just bumping around through third fourth class climbing taking your pack off setting things down.

So this is a really nice helmet, because it’s durable and it lasts a long time. Anything you don’t like about the helmet anything I, don’t like about the helmet. Let’s see, I haven’t found anything too well. I! Guess one thing I’ll share is you definitely want to get the right size, because this does come in different sizes, some helmets or one size fits all.

This one I think believe comes in a small, medium and then a large medium, large. So two different sizes- and if you get this too small I’ve seen this come up too high on people’s foreheads. So with any kind of helmet, you want the front of the helmet right over the top of the eyebrows, so that you’re, you know keeping your personality, your emotional regulation, parts of your brain safe.

So again, if you get this too small, it’s just going to be way too high on your forehead. If you would look like on sure there, it is awesome how many stars out of five. Would you get it? Oh I, don’t for a hard shell, helmet I, don’t think it really gets better than this one, so full five stars yeah and about how long have you owned the helmet for I’ve? Had this for about six months, great! Well, thank you.

So much you’re welcome.

Hey guys, it’s Josh at sibling gear. This is the Black Diamond half dome helmet, these fit the adult sizes as well as the child sizes. It just goes right on your noggin, just like this clips in the bottom and the edge size adjustment in the back is just some clicking, just a knob that you turn and it sizes it down a little bit.

They come in orange and they’ve got the ventilation also on the top and the sides come in orange color. They come in a white or a blizzard color they come, and this one is the cafe color the brown and then there’s the limestone or the gray tint, and the traffic, which is a pretty blue color. The black diamond Half Dome helmets.

New spring 19 Half Dome helmet once again an evolution of a product that we’ve had in the line for quite a while with some really nice updates. We beefed up this back dial. This whole suspension is actually new. This is basically similar to what we created on the women’s Half Dome, which was released last year, but it’s really comfortable and cups to back your head, and this dial is super fine-tune gear, and it just allows this to cup to the back.

Your head really really comfortably. So this stays on your head really really. Well, we beefed up the headlamp clips. We beefed up the EPS liner down around the ears, so we made that more burly, the Y slides to give you the adjustability around your ears comes in four colors, two sizes, the small/medium and the medium/large. The small/medium is 330 grams and the medium/large is 350 grams price stays the same at 59 bucks, so $59 95, making the lightest weight helmet was not priority on this rig.

We wanted something that was really comfortable. That was really robust, so that was the goal here was to make something that you could basically throw in your pack sit on when you having lunch, give your dog water out of it, except it would kind of come through the holes, but do whatever you need to do, and just a really really comfortable jack-of-all. Do everything rock climbing ice climbing. So this thing can take a beating, you can do you know, can roll down the cliff it’s gonna get scratched up, but it’s not necessarily gonna get dented up, whereas the vapor and the vector these guys.

The idea behind the vapor was to create a helmet for people to wear that didn’t want to wear a helmet. So lightweight was the priority here. So we took away as much as we could and made it the lightest weight helmet that still passed the CE requirements. You know frankly, durability wasn’t a priority on this rig. We just wanted something super lightweight, it’s a really low profile of liner and then a super thin polycarbonate. Shell plus, frankly, climbers are more vain than they’d like to pretend that they are so having a low-profile cool guy.

Looking helmet is important to some people versus something generally, these helmets sit up a little higher because they have to have more foam in there to absorb the energy. The shell doesn’t really absorb the energy. It’s the foam inside the shell that absorbs the energy the hard shell helmet is really protecting the foam, so it all depends on the how hard the hit is. So if you took one hard hit with this thing, you could look and you can see a crack than that.

How much done to just the reality is it’s more likely. These are more like a bike helmet right where they’re really for one hit, because the shell- actually it’s just almost kind of holding everything together- it’s not really providing any energy absorption, it’s purely in the foam, so the foam is taking a hit on this thing. So if you take a significant fall into the wall or like a rock hitting you on this thing, I mean you can look and you can see pretty well.

You should take the pads out and check it out and inspect your helmet. If you start seeing cracks and stuff, then this helmet is done. This helmet could be done too, but it’s just less likely because it’s really protected by this robust shell.

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Hello and welcome to another rock climber life: video I, am your host gifs Africa today we’re doing a helmet review. I have pretty much the two most popular helmets you’re going to see when you’re rock climbing. This is the Black Diamond Half Dome, and this is the pencil Elias. First, let’s start with a Black Diamond.

One of the gripes major gripes I have with the Black Diamond is the ventilation. This helmet feels very closed up to me and personally, I sweat a lot while I’m climbing, especially in the hot months of summer, and this one really doesn’t have the ventilation that I would like it to have. There are where, where the headlamp would mount, those are open.

So those are for ventilation, holes two on each side and then there are three small holes on each side of the helmet and then in the rear. There are three small holes as well. So that’s really not that much when you wear this helmet again, I really I, really sweat a lot in this helmet on the inside. What may also be contributing to the ventilation is the fact that the padding wraps all the way around and to the rear.

Now that may be a double-edged sword, because it is more padded, but at the same time the padding is is quite thick on the inside and and wide and like I said it goes all the way around and the inside also doesn’t not have more air holes as well. So when, when I wear the helmet, the padding all the way around it closes up the ventilation.

One other feature on this Black Diamond helmet is the fact that this rear strap that you can adjust to make it tighter or looser. On the back of your head, this doesn’t move up and down. This is in a fixed position, so overall I do like the Black Diamond Half Dome helmet, but it’s not my favorite. The Petzl I think is slightly better and for the main reason for me is the a Malaysian.

The side of the helmet has three large holes on each side, and the rear of the helmet has four large holes. These holes are much larger than the half diamond ventilation, as you can see by the size. Another aspect of the ventilation and the comfort of the helmet is that the inside front padding is thinner, and it’s not so thick like the black diamond, and it also only wraps around maybe less than half of the helmet.

So when you wear it even just sitting here, it feels like there’s much more air that can that can flow around my head and keep me cool while climbing another feature that I do like about the peso le Oz. Is that the rear strap? It has the same adjustment feature as the Black Diamond, the the crank feature, but this entire strap will go in and out of the helmet, so this actually has an advantage.

The way I see it is that when you’re packing your bag at the end of the day, this will fit inside the helmet and you can pack things on top of it tightly or on the Black Diamond. These things are pressing on it and it kind of gets shuffled in your bag and things like that. Another feature. This would be, this would be a good helmet for for the female climbers I know they make a petal elia helmet.

That has a kind of u-turn shape to this rear, strap to accommodate for ponytails, but this could also just be simply adjusted because the straps can’t slide in and out of this rear strap. Then this rear buckle here. So this can. This can move freely up and down. The pencil helmet also sits slightly lower. So that may be an aesthetic view, something you may not care about at all, but it’s just slightly lower on the head and overall I think it’s just a more comfortable helmet.

Another point of aesthetics on these two helmets is the black diamond. Has a gloss finish so when it gets scratched up, you see, all scratches are very visible where the Petzl elias has more of a matte finish and the scratches kind of blend into the surface of the of the helmet of the plastic. So some prices, the Black Diamond Half Dome, is 59 95 pencil Elias is 65 95, so five dollars more six dollars more.

That’s your choice! If it’s worth an extra six dollars for ventilation, personally, I think it is the worth the extra a little bit of money for an overall I, think better and more comfortable and well ventilated helmet. This has been gypped Zachary with another rock climber like video. This is the blog rock climber life calm for more information, thanks for watching.

Ten years ago, I bought my first climbing helmet. It was this black diamond Half Dome. It’s still the climbing helmet that I choose Black Diamond has made it even better. It’s lighter lower profile and has expanded adjustability. So it fits a greater range of sizes over different hats or without a hat over all these years, whether I’m rock climbing ice, climbing or just general mountaineering, the Black Diamond Half Dome, is the helmet that I’m gonna take.

The Petzl Scirocco is the lightest climbing helmet and offers extended head coverage. An exceptional comfort while multi-pitch climbing ice, climbing and mountaineering the hybrid construction of the Scirocco allows it to weigh only 170 grams. The main body of the helmet is made of expanded, polypropylene foam and provides amazing impact, absorption and withstands multiple impacts without damage.

The top of the head is guarded with an expanded, polystyrene foam crown and a polycarbonate protective cap to provide reinforced protection against falling objects. The hybrid use of two different foams and an isolated protective covering keeps the volume and weight of the helmet low, while the overall head coverage is increased as rock fall from above is not the only risk of head injury while climbing the Scirocco is built, provide more coverage along the back of the head, the better pegged against lateral and rear impacts during the fall.

The Scirocco is built with premium features that deliver maximum comfort and performance. The removable and washable padding inside the helmet helps with sweat and cushions against pressure points. Numerous ventilation holes are located around the entire helmet to deliver optimal airflow during warm day long ascents.

The low-profile webbing suspension system is simple: to adjust, easy to store and is equipped with a magnetic buckle that snaps shut quickly and easily. Attaching a headlamp to the helmet is made easy with two clips in the front and an elastic strap in the back tested on the most typical Peaks highest big walls and in the deepest caves.

This helmet delivers an ideal combination of ultra light weight, protection and comfort. The Petzl Scirocco is perfect for any supper fest in the mountains, no matter if it’s on rock snow or ice now, 170 grams, this featherweight can take all the hits. The whole idea behind the vapor helmet was to have a helmet that you want to wear every time you go climbing, so it needed to be ultralight.

It needed to be highly ventilated and it needed to be low profile. So it felt like part of you when we started this design. We started with how to make it as highly ventilated as possible and to achieve that, we use plastic and carbon rods that are inside the EPS foam. We fold around them to achieve the ventilation to achieve the ultralight weight.

We settled upon a kevlar, polycarbonate, EPS layup, but still we needed to explore the densities of the foam and how much foam we really needed to pass all the required tests. We have to explore the adjustment system, how it tucks away inside the helmet for putting it in a pack and webbings as well, in order to create an easy to use minimalistic design that still was amongst the widest helmets ever created.

This is the solitaire our most ventilated mountaineering helmet, which, thanks to its hybrid construction, weighs only 200 grams and is one of the lightest helmets on the market, I’m Phil product manager at a turret. Just by looking at it, you can see that the helmet is extremely well ventilated. It is so lightweight because of its hybrid construction, combining a foam injected EPP core and an ABS hard shell.

The EPP foam has the advantage of being extremely lightweight and particularly flexible. This makes the helmet very robust for transport and, of course, for climbing it can withstand several impacts without breaking the ABS hard. Shell distributes the force of an impact to a larger area which allows a very slim design of the helmet, and thus it rests very close to your head.

Besides, the helmet is equipped with two headlamp flips on the front and a more flexible attachment at the back, which allows you to attach even headlamps with battery packs or skiing goggles. The inside of the helmet has a minimal stick design to save more weight. It consists of two removable pettings, which are washable an enclosure system consisting of a chin, strap and a buckle for the back of the head.

The back strap can be even adjusted in height to fit all head sizes. This ality 200 grams of excellent ventilation, a helmet for all occasions. When we set out to design the vector helmet. We went into it with the realization that we needed to get the weight as low as possible for an all-around helmet. One that could take a bit of a beating still looks pretty good.

We also needed to get the ventilation as high as possible, which is really only possible through a foam helmet. We went with a polycarbonate skin over the top of that in order to resist dents and dings. What we also did was use a tuck away suspension system and that allows you to push the suspension system inside the helmet in order to store it in your pack, and we use it very simple, ratcheting adjustment mechanism to keep the weight down and to adjust a helmet on your head.

We recognize the fact that wheezing, your headlamp in an opportune time, is gonna suck, so we made sure we made probably the most secure clip systems on the market we felt like. If we could embody all of the attributes weigh fit ventilation looks into some compelling designs. We would be making a line of helmets that would be willing to take with you.

Instead of looking for excuses not to you.

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El Cap climbing helmet, it’s a really really nice helmet this and there’s several features that I like very much about this. First of all, it’s incredibly light, so there was a time when polycarb helmets used to feel pretty tough and heavy, but nowadays they’re getting lighter this one particularly feels light but being polycarb. This is tough. This can handle repeated, knocks as opposed to certain very light weight at modern helmets, which one good knock and they’re done.

This is this: is a good mountaineering, multi-day helmet in terms of shock absorbency, you can see that inside here it’s lined with a foot with a foam padding. Well, there’s. Actually two densities of foam in here there’s the bit you can see and there’s the bit between what you can see in this, that you can’t see the dual density will be far more effective at absorbing an impact than just single density. You’ve then got the holes for air to keep your head cool.

You’ve got a little peak to stop stuff falling onto your face, but what’s really nice about it is this bit at the back here when you put it on drops down to the nape of your neck and makes the helmet sit really securely and recently I was in Norway and I took one of these with me to test and even as I put it on and didn’t, do it up, it just felt really secure. So let me show you so you put the helmet on pull that down and at the back you just simply adjust it by pushing those in or pulling them out, and it you get a customized fit and then underneath the chin, it’s very easy to to do up, and that is really really secure and feels very light and very comfortable and, like I, say I wore it for a week and after ten minutes you don’t know, you’ve got it on.

So it’s a very affordable helmet as well yeah. A really good piece of kit I really enjoyed using this. So the L cap by Marmot, great helmet, enjoy your summer, enjoy your climbing keep safe. Thank you.

– Hey, what’s up I’m Miranda, with REI of keeping yourself protected at the crag, whether you’re, climbing or belaying This will help protect your head from rock fall from you falling and hitting your head on the rock and just in general, from banging your head on a rock Let’s talk about how to choose and how to fit a climbing helmet (light music) So.

There are two different types of helmets that you might find on the market. The first is gonna, be a hardshell helmet like I, have here and here and then the other is gonna, be a foam helmet like this one Hardshell helmets are generally speaking, less expensive and also a little bit less comfortable than a foam helmet, whereas a foam helmet’s gonna be a little bit pricier, but has a lot more ventilation and can be a little bit more comfortable So with a hardshell helmet.

You get basically a suspended hard exterior that protects your head with some foam on the inside for comfort. There are different types of hardshell helmets that are gonna have varying amounts of foam So. You can see that this one has a little bit more But they’re all gonna have that hard shell on the outside With foam helmets. You don’t have that hard shell on the outside They’re, just made of foam So they’re a lot lighter You can see that they have a ton more ventilation than you get with some of your hardshells Hardshell helmets are going to be cheaper, but they’re also gonna be more durable than a foam.

Helmet These are really great if you’re, prioritizing durability and cost So say if you’re top roping or if you’re doing a lot of just cragging. This might be a really good option for you. Foam helmets are a lot lighter and they’re a lot more breathable and, generally speaking, they’re gonna be a bit more comfortable So. These are really great if you wanna prioritize that comfort and breathability over cost and durability.

These are a great choice if you’re doing long, multi-pitches or alpine climbing or mountaineering So, once you’ve decided what type of helmet you want. You’ll want to find. One that fits you properly Proper fit is really important, because if the helmet fits you you’re much more likely to wear it at the crag and wearing. It is a good idea to keep yourself safe, So to put the helmet on we’ll go ahead and loosen up this dial in the back here.

And I’m, just gonna put it on my head like this, so that it comes about to the middle of my forehead From. Here I can go ahead and tighten this dial til. It feels snug and then buckle the chinstrap Hardshell helmets like this one are gonna sit a little higher on your head than you might be used to if you’re normally wearing a bike helmet. But this is the proper fit as I can feel that the foam is touching.

The top of my head and it’s tight in the back A good way to check fit, is just to move your around and make sure that the helmet’s not gonna go anywhere, especially if you’re looking up or looking down You don’t want it sliding back on your head as you’re scoping out the next move or looking down for footwork So. Once you have the helmet on and it’s the proper fit you’re ready to go.

If you’ve had your climbing helmet for a little while you might be wondering if it’s time to retire it and get a new one. Check your helmet for any dents or cracks Scratches and dings are fine. That’s just gonna happen over time. But. If you have any large dents in the top of the helmet or cracks in the hardshell, then it’s probably time to retire.

You’ll also want to check the inside make sure that all of the webbing is still intact and that the foam doesn’t have any major damage to it. A good rule of thumb is that if you were wearing your helmet and it took a hit from a rock or anything else- and you thought to yourself “I’m really glad I was wearing a helmet “, it’s probably time to retire it and get a new one, That’s it for how to fit and choose climbing helmets.

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Hey guys welcome to the show, first of all, if you’re new, please subscribe, comment share. It’s really greatly appreciated. So in this episode, what we’re gonna talk about is what to look for in a helmet if you’re trying to choose a climbing helmet for yourself, I’ve been asked recently about this by a couple of different friends and while I am NOT, an expert I am an engineer, and it’s kind of in my nature to make spreadsheets do a bunch of research.

You know the deal, write, figure out all the different types and features and what works best, what’s the best value for the dollar etc. So, last year, when I look to upgrade my helmet, did a bunch of research learned a little bit about the state of technology and climbing helmets, and my friends asked me to pass that along so I figured I’d pass it along to you guys as well.

Generally speaking, I am a huge supporter of helmets, I always climb with a helmet when I’m trying I almost always climb with a helmet when I’m sport, climbing I, try to remember to always do it I think that it’s very important, certainly as I’ve gotten older and more risk adverse? It’s it’s important thing to do so definitely climb with a helmet, and hopefully this information will help you in picking out the right helmet for you.

Overall, there are kind of three categories of helmets in my piñon start with kind of the old-school low-end hardshell helmet. So the whole helmets in this case is going to be a plastic abs or you know some other plastic material. These are heavy. They don’t ventilate very well, they’re, typically not very pretty, but they are cheap and they’re super durable.

So um you see these a lot and use in guide services, primarily due to the cost and the durability right. A helmet like this typically will run in the price range twenty-five to fifty dollars. You can beat these things up and they will last forever. You know basic suspension system and this one foam, but the whole thing the whole helmet itself is ABS. No, this is an old pencil, eccrine rock.

They don’t make this anymore, but I believe Petzl has a similar model. Camp makes one that’s almost identical to this I think Revell makes a hard shell element and I think Everage makes a few as well. So there are some out there. If you want a full hardshell helmet, but downsides, like I said, are breathability and weight. They are super super heavy on the other end of the spectrum, yeah you’re high and phone the helmets.

So this is a man. Writer similar to the Petzl syrup, go very similar design and there are several others as well. It is a full foam helmet. This particular one does have a small plastic shield on the top to protect from a direct impact from a rock to just make it last longer. These are extremely lightweight and extremely breathable very comfortable. They are the highest in cost in terms of helmets, but they are well worth it, and when you pay that money you get something that’s pretty stylish as well, so certainly makes it a little easier to wear.

You know more comfortable if you’re, looking good, you’re feeling good, you know, you’re gonna be climbing good you’re, not gonna, be thinking about your helmet right now. There are two types of foam out there, and this is very important because they behave very differently. You have EPP, which is expanded, polypropylene and EPS, which is expanded, polystyrene well.

The EPS bone is the older style of foam. That’s out there. The way that it functions is on impact it cracks to absorb the energy from that impact. Okay, so a big fall or hard hit. You get a crack and your helmets done. You need to replace it. The EPP thong crushes on impact okay, so certainly still a big fall or big impact may wipe your helmet out and may need to replace it, but smaller impacts and smaller hits.

Hopefully you know it can take a few of those, so it’s a little bit more durable. Although in general bone the helmets need more care because they are more fragile and MRSA the image, if you just dangling and off your bag as you’re hiking up right or if you’re, just throwing it in the back of your car, you might want to be a little more careful with it.

Then a hardshell helmet, the price range on these, depending on the model, tend to run list price between 120 dollars to around 175 dollars, so Petzl siroccos in that price range. The wall riders in that price range, as well as others in between the two, is something that I were referring to as a hybrid helmet right. So it is a full hardshell, okay, but had a foam liner in it.

This is the Petzl meteor right, so it’s still fairly lightweight. It’s still pretty breathable, but you know you have that full protection, that’s not as breathable or as lightweight as a full foam helmet right. It’s somewhere in between the hardshell and the foam, as you would imagine, right so, and pricing is in between these types of helmets will run you in the 50 to $100 price range.

This is my wife’s helmet pretty stylish, she likes the pink, so you know it works for her. I am also a fan of the Petzl Oreo in this range of helmets. Now that has a full plastic shell, with both EPP and EPS foam parts inside the structure of the helmet. So it’s that hybrid design again or it’s taking a making use of the foam as the impact absorption part, the helmet and the hardshell is really there for small rocks and durability.

So another thing that you don’t want to look at so we’ve mentioned breathability and weight. Those are really important characteristics. The third one that I think you want to look at is the suspension system. So this is important. It’s really, you know all three of these characteristics fit or determine how the helmets going to fit and feel okay. So this helmet has a webbing suspension system.

That also has some plastic pieces here, pretty easy to adjust. You just grab these knobs slide. It open and it’ll slide around and adjust, and you can adjust the webbing to bring the suspension down towards the back now. For me, this helmet is not the most comfortable helmet, a lot of people like it. It’s super popular but I feel that rides pretty high up on my head right.

So, even though ventilation is good, durability is good. The weight is okay. The fit for me is not that great serves my wife fantastically because she doesn’t climb she just blades right, so it sits up. There gives her good protection, you know moderate cost and it’s still very breathable, so it really fits for her needs. Um the Manet wall rider has a full webbing suspension system all the way around I mean it’s really really well, but is a huge pain to adjust so I’m, not really great, if you’re sharing the helmet with others, but once you get it adjusted to you, you know you: can you have these quick-release pieces in the back for snugging it down I’m, saying it to pop it off.

So it’s just for you. This is a really great suspension system that you don’t really tweak and get that right fit, but not very good for justing on the fly for other people again. This is why you got to think about. You know how you’re gonna use the helmet. You know. Is it one helmet and two climber sharing it? Is it just you and you know, I, don’t want anybody else, sticking their sweaty head in your helmet.

It’s kind of my place on that, but you know try these helmets on see how they fit, how they feel how they look right. Do you feel confident in it right? Does it feel lightweight? You know you shouldn’t be thinking about your helmet. Your helmet should be just there and you know if you’ve ever used, I have your helmet as soon as you use a lighter weight high-end element, you’re gonna know the difference immediately.

Now we’ll go ahead and talk about the suspension system of this helmet because it’s actually a really nice suspension system that pets will put into it all those years ago. Again. Another reason why you see this style of helmet with guide services, because as these knobs on the side, which you actually just roll these wheels, and it tightens up the headband right, so you can very quickly adjust it from user to user all right.

All of these helmets will also have a kind of foam liner in them. Now this is not the EPP or EPS foam, it’s just a kind of comfort and size adjustment bump, and this one it’s around the band and in the media, or it’s actually up in here right. So those pieces also play a part in the suspension and the fit and the comp so think about those three features or characteristics.

When you’re picking out your helmet and I, really can’t stress it enough that you should, you know, try as many helmets on as you can go to the store. You know a gear shop. Try on what they have. You know see what fits and feels good to you and frankly buy the best. You can afford all right, your helmets, an investment, and you know it’s small price to pay for comfort, while you’re, climbing and protection, while you’re climbing, which is why I went with the man all right.

Other good options on Black Diamond has a few. The vector, I think is their high-end model. Petzl vision is a nice mid tier model that is a hybrid, so those are good options. I mentioned the pencil borio big fan of that one as a low cost option. That also provides you know, kind of a good balance of weight and breathability Petzl Scirocco, and the mammoth walrider, in my opinion, are probably the top two helmet choices if you’re looking for the best.

Those are the ones to to look at so I hope that information is helpful. Guys have any questions you know, comment below I will be happy to answer them if I can and please subscribe, if you haven’t yet all right talk to you guys next time Thanks, you.

Actually of Germany that’s right in the kufstein area, yes Krag! This is KP. He diamond he’s. Gonna, tell us about a really cool helmet. Actually, I’m quite excited about this. This is our new vision helmet. This is the MIPS version, we’re having a MIPS version, an anonymous version now, I know what MIPS is. Why don’t you explain to me what this is so MIT has come from research in American football, where they found that people were getting concussion from lateral rotation where they hit the floor and the head spins.

This sound right that sounds cool, so they’ve invented a helmet, so we’re lining for a helmet where your head hits the floor and the helmet spins and the lining kind of breaks inside, so it spins the helmet rather than your head. Yes, so boom it’s hit, getting it in skiing helmets, motorcycle helmet. Yes, it’s very popular in ski helmets and cycling, helmets, I, don’t know if it actually originated from American football I. Think you made that up, but regardless the the concept is, we could look it up.

Okay, the research comes from could be. The concept is exactly what you described, so this yellow liner rotates in the helmet. So when this is on your head, it basically takes a rotational energy and it doesn’t transmit it to your brain, because the helmet will rotate not your head. Basically, that’s what it is. So this is the MIPS version of what we’re calling the vision and the construction of our non MIPS version, and the MIPS version is the same. So we have two different throws.

We have the EPP foam, so this is really flexible. Durable, doesn’t get thing really easy, so that’s called EPP means expanded, polypropylene and then, in order to meet the requirements, there’s a puck inside here, an EPS puck which it’s expanded, polystyrene and that absorbs energy differently. So we use a dual density foam with this Polycarp shell. Another cool feature: is these integrated headlamp clips, so they’re super low profile. If you’re taking slings off your shoulder, you’re not going to get them hung up on.

That’s really annoying so so these are super low profile built right in really durable, and you have your headlamp attachment clip your head torch attachment clip on the back and then a nice simple adjustment system, low profile, webbing, what’s good, yeah stealth black as well yeah, so you do! The non mix in different colors is that a non lip Sabine I think five different colors yeah, maybe six actually and then the MIPS only comes in the black and they’re available in early spring of next year.

Great, it feels good feels really awesome, like yeah thanks Colin. Alright. Thank you.

Hi I’m Kolin Powick, the climbing category director at black diamond- and this is our new vision harness this is the lightest weight full functioning, harness on the market, 224 grams designed really for alpine climbing four gear loops, low-profile gear loops, four ice clipper slots, a super thin low-profile belay loop, fixed legs, it’s super packable and really lightweight, like I, said 224 grams, so having a lightweight harness is one thing but having it really packable is another, so it takes up less space in your pack, not exactly on the comfortable side of the scale, though a lot of the guys have been wearing this thing.

Sport climbing and it’s like totally fine, really really minimalistic $149 95 available in January of 2018, pretty sick. It’s pretty sick. What we did with this was we took our kinetic core construction from our Xenos and our Chaos and our Ethos. This is really the guts of that we stripped all the shell and everything off and left the the bare bones.

Basically the skeleton. So this is Vectran fiber super strong, doesn’t absorb water, really packable, really lightweight made the width, a balance between comfort and packability way more comfortable than you would think. But it’s an alpine rig. It’s designed for alpine climbing no adjustment on the leg loops. You know the only adjustment is the waist belt to get it on and off, and this belay loop is super cool.

It’s basically one strand of super high-tech fiber, that’s wrapped around, like a doughnut and then wrapped in this casing. So it’s not like that most belay loops are a piece of webbing, that’s folded into a loop and bar tacked. So that’s how we could get this to be so strong and so small and it’s way way way over built. We could even make it smaller and it would still meet all the requirements, but it would get to the point.

You’d be freaked out. We actually played with the diameter of this tubing a lot because our other harnesses have thicker, but then it’s it’s not as packable. We found this to be a good balance between functionality and pack ability. If you put nothing on it, then it’s really hard, especially with gloves and jackets and stuff in packs.

Some ski mountaineers are gonna. Wear this you go to the Tetons. You want a real harness, that’s really light and packs. Well, 224 grams, that’s insane! It’s only 5 grams I think heavier than the Couloir, which I would classify as not a full functioning harness. You know. Yes, you can rap in it and stuff like that. But you know it’s got the diaper legs and no gear loop.

You know that kind of thing. So this is like got everything you need on. It called the vision because we thought that these climbers that are looking at these crazy North faces in the mountains, like they have the vision to link up these ice smears and stuff. This is the kind of harness that they want to wear. Sadly, we made it for Kyle Dempster, that’s who we made it for, and he had our first prototype when we lost him last fall.

You know we made it for those guys for Kyle, Hayden, Kennedy, Urban Novak. You know Marko Prezelj, like these kinds of dudes. You know that are really pushing it, but of course anyone can use it for anything they want, but we really wanted to make it for those kind of guys that are pushing the limits in the mountains.

New spring 19 Half Dome helmet once again an evolution of a product that we’ve had in the line for quite a while with some really nice updates. We beefed up this back dial. This whole suspension is actually new. This is basically similar to what we created on the women’s Half Dome, which was released last year, but it’s really comfortable and cups to back your head, and this dial is super fine-tune gear, and it just allows this to cup to the back.

Your head really really comfortably. So this stays on your head really really. Well, we beefed up the headlamp clips. We beefed up the EPS liner down around the ears, so we made that more burly, the Y slides to give you the adjustability around your ears comes in four colors, two sizes, the small/medium and the medium/large. The small/medium is 330 grams and the medium/large is 350 grams price stays the same at 59 bucks, so $59 95, making the lightest weight helmet was not priority on this rig.

We wanted something that was really comfortable. That was really robust, so that was the goal here was to make something that you could basically throw in your pack sit on when you having lunch, give your dog water out of it, except it would kind of come through the holes, but do whatever you need to do, and just a really really comfortable jack-of-all.

Do everything rock climbing ice climbing. So this thing can take a beating, you can do you know, can roll down the cliff it’s gonna get scratched up, but it’s not necessarily gonna get dented up, whereas the vapor and the vector these guys. The idea behind the vapor was to create a helmet for people to wear that didn’t want to wear a helmet. So lightweight was the priority here.

So we took away as much as we could and made it the lightest weight helmet that still passed the CE requirements. You know frankly, durability wasn’t a priority on this rig. We just wanted something super lightweight, it’s a really low profile of liner and then a super thin polycarbonate. Shell plus, frankly, climbers are more vain than they’d like to pretend that they are so having a low-profile cool guy.

Looking helmet is important to some people versus something generally, these helmets sit up a little higher because they have to have more foam in there to absorb the energy. The shell doesn’t really absorb the energy. It’s the foam inside the shell that absorbs the energy the hard shell helmet is really protecting the foam, so it all depends on the how hard the hit is.

So if you took one hard hit with this thing, you could look and you can see a crack than that. How much done to just the reality is it’s more likely. These are more like a bike helmet right where they’re really for one hit, because the shell- actually it’s just almost kind of holding everything together- it’s not really providing any energy absorption, it’s purely in the foam, so the foam is taking a hit on this thing.

So if you take a significant fall into the wall or like a rock hitting you on this thing, I mean you can look and you can see pretty well. You should take the pads out and check it out and inspect your helmet. If you start seeing cracks and stuff, then this helmet is done. This helmet could be done too, but it’s just less likely because it’s really protected by this robust shell.

Hi, I’m tyson with adventure rig and this morning we’re talking head protection for rock climbing, specifically the black diamond vision, mips helmet now black diamond says that this is their most durable helmet in their lineup to date. This is a great helmet. I’ve really enjoyed using it. The last few weeks has a lot of features that I’ve come to like to start with on the inside.

You can see this yellow liner. This is the mips system that I mentioned earlier. I’ve used this a lot in skeen helmets as well as cycling helmets. This is the first rock climbing helmet, though, that I’ve used it in and what it is. Is it really takes those forces that come at you more from a side force versus straight onto the top of your head, but these side blows that you could encounter.

What happens is that this yellow membrane in here is actually separate from the rest of the helmet. You can see that it can move by itself, so it allows there to be just a little bit of movement between what is actually touching your head and the helmet itself. Also, the system that cinches down around your neck here all of this webbing- this is all really small and lightweight stuff, making the entire helmet lightweight as well.

That was probably one of the first things I noticed out of the box is just how light it is now. Their small medium size comes in at 240 grams. Their medium large is only 250 grams. When I put this helmet on, I don’t really notice it on my head at all. Also on the very back of the helmet you can see it has a very nice retention system, so you can get a great snug fit, no matter what size head you have.

You can also see with the helmet on how well it covers my entire nugget right here in the front it drops down nice and low just to above my eyebrows here and then, if I turn to the side, you can see that it has a nice cutout for my ears, but at the back it drops down again giving me a lot of really great coverage. You can also see that I have a lot of airflow throughout the entire helmet, making it nice and cool.

Now, if I wanted to use this ice climbing in the winter, I still do have room to put a small beanie on underneath this and keep my head warm another thing about. This is the foam that they’re using so I’m used to these older helmets that have a really hard shell to them, where, if you were to hit the rock with it, it would either rip the foam or put a big dent in it.

This stuff that they’re, using, though, is really soft. So you can see, I can actually push on it with my finger and it pops back out after I push on it, you can see that this polycarbonate shell on the top definitely gets scratched up. If I wasn’t wearing this helmet, I’d say that my head would be in a lot of pain, because I have some pretty deep scratches on this.

Currently, this polycarbonate shell protects the entire top of the helmet and then the foam. That’s on the side here, like I said, doesn’t really dent that easily, which is really nice. They’ve, also incorporated a nice system for a headlamp. You’ve got two hooks on the very front as well as this nice strap on the back, so that the headlamp stays on the helmet and in place.

What I like about these front straps is that if you look at it from the side, they are actually even with the foam on the front of the helmet. So if you have some slings on your shoulder, you’re getting slings off and they’re, hitting your helmet they’re not going to get caught on the strap where your headlamp goes, which is really key. If you’re looking for the latest and greatest in helmet technology, the vision mips by black diamond is absolutely one that is worth checking out.

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