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.

 

How many twigs should you tie off?

Apparently two is good enough.

If it isn't big enough to be THE anchor, it shouldn't be AN anchor.

Don't leave stuff at the top, especially about $150 in climbing gear. Love the laminated belay anchor card, it probably came with an expensive course.

This yard sale is pretty tempting.

The AMGA used to claim that the BFK was auto-equalizing. Well, no.

 

What's wrong with this picture?

Picking the dead limb is what we call suboptimal.

If it just hanging limp it is a back up, not equalized.

If you sling both of these blocks, they won't move. If you sling just one, it moves.

 Putting the anchor way up in the tree increases the force on the tree.