Not quite Spring, but more people outside.

Leaving your stuff at the top of the crag is an invitation to theft.

Everything depends on one quickdraw.

A single piece of webbing and one carabiner.

The carabiner is right on the edge, acting like a lever.

How about a bowline?

 

Year end catch up.

That's not what they mean by redundant.

Gotta use your sport draw plus knots!

The flying tree wrap.

Wrap two trees, sort of, still not redundant.

The added big tree increases the angle of the anchor, weakening.

A half assed wrap with carabiner to carabiner collection.

Not a tensionless anchor, not a knot.

Tiny tree slung high to maximize torque.

Again, mission critical single carabiners.

See the loose end?

More flying anchors and mystery knots.

 

Beautiful Fall day, fortunately nobody died.

Truly skinny trees.

If a tree is too small for one anchor, does having three make it better?

I don't know how much of that rock is buried, could they know?

You don't see the flying lasso anchor much.

The yard sale. Hundreds of dollars of gear that could disappear in a heartbeat.

This would be a tensionless anchor, but with two wraps, it is pretty useless. Look carefully at the second wrap, you can see daylight.

 

Shoelace is sub-optimal as an anchor.

 Not to mention the carabiners.

Unclear on the concept.

Lots of extra rope, bowline on a bight, but a half hitch as a tie off, suboptimal.

Barely hanging on at that point. This is important due to the rest of the anchor.

If that shaky anchor slips, the whole left side started whipping around.

 

What's the real anchor?

 That little bitty partially. buried rock is the real anchor. If that pops off, the rope will straighten and probably come off the big rock.

Dental floss.

This appears to be 6mm accessory cord. The good news is that it really isn't part of the system. The bad news is that it could easily cut. It is rated as strong enough, but the quartz nubbins could make quick work of it.