Clogwyn Climbing Gear (Clog) began life way back in 1966 in a place called Deiniolen in North Wales. Founded by Denny Moorehouse and his partner, Shirley Smith, Clog were one of the first companies in the UK to mass produce rock climbing gear of any quality at a time when climbers were still using chockstones and nuts – as in nuts and bolts- to jam into fissures in the rock to secure themselves. A well known climb in Llanberis, Wales, had the pedal and crank of a bike jammed into a crack which you could thread a sling around. One of Clog’s first products were Hexagonal Nuts, a fine set of which we have here in the collection. Varying from size 1-7, the smaller ones came on wire and the bigger ones got nicknames…the number 6 being a Jumbo and number 7 a Mammoth!

We’ve gathered this set together from various sources though they all date from around 1970. The Clog price-list opposite dates from 1974 when Hexagons were still being made, though American climber/ gear manufacturer, Yvon Chouinard, had invented the Hexentric a couple of years earlier – it was an off-set form of Hexagon which worked better when jammed in a crack. The Hexentric soon became the nut of choice and by the end of the 1970s the Hexagon had pretty much become redundant so we are extremely happy to have this little ‘set’ of history in our collection.