Best Women's Climbing Harness Awards for 2013 Announced by OutdoorGearLab.com

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Sept. 6, 2013 - PRLog -- CHEYENNE, WY—OutdoorGearLab.com recently released the results of the 2013 Editors’ Choice Awards for the Women's Climbing Harness category. After extensive field testing in the High Sierra, the Utah desert, and other California climbing destinations, the review editor's reached a conclusion on which harnesses are the best performers. We evaluated eight top harnesses on the following categories: comfort, gym and sport climbing ability, trad climbing ability, milch-pitch and alpine climbing ability, ease of use, and weight. Each underwent extensive side by side tests to evaluate these key performance metrics.

The winners are:

The Mammut Ophira (http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Climbing-Harness-Womens-Reviews/Mammut-Ophira), is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for 2013. According to Gear Editor McKenzie Long, "Looking for the most comfortable, best fitting, most versatile, and most inexpensive women's climbing harness? We found it: the Mammut Ophira. Also decked out with clever features to increase safety and ease of use, this is by far our favorite harness."

The Black Diamond Primrose SA (http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Climbing-Harness-Womens-Rev...), is the winner of the Best Buy award for 2013. This award is given to a product that balances an extremely high score in our tests and a very reasonable price. According to McKenzie Long, "For $55 you get a comfortable, lightweight harness with a speed adjust waist buckle, adjustable leg loops, and easy to clip rigid gear loops. You have to spend a great deal more money to get just minor improvements in weight or features."

The Arc'teryx R280 (http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Climbing-Harness-Womens-Rev...) is winner of the Top Pick award for 2013. This award is given to a product that excels at a specific application. According to McKenzie Long, "All testers agreed: this is the coolest looking harness, both in design, colors, and material. It's the Audi of harnesses: refined, elegant, expensive. With innovative Warp Technology, weight is dispersed across the harness while maintaining a light weight and thin profiles itself. This is the ultimate harness for sport climbing."

OutdoorGearLab LLC is a company headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming dedicated to creating world’s best outdoor gear reviews. The company’s website, is a free resource for people who love the outdoors and participate in activities such as hiking, climbing, backpacking, and camping. The company performs side-by-side testing of outdoor gear and publishes the results in comparative reviews. Each product is scored across a range of weighted categories, competing products are ranked, and awards are provide to top performing products.

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