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| Lots of extra rope but added runner and carabiners increase risk. |
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| Big mistakes:1 the third unnecessary anchor increased the angle between anchors, weakening the entire system, 2 totally side loading the carabiners, 3 you could hear the climbing rope rubbing against the anchor rope. Great gear, bad brains. |
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| Single strand webbing. There's a nut in the crack at the left side of the loose block. |
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| More single strand, slinging the trees 4 feet off the ground. |
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| The two skinny trees at center are one anchor. |
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| This skinny tree is the other. |
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| More of same. |
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| Webbing connected to states with a single locker. Heard about the DMM and Black Diamond recalls? |
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| Slinging the hollow tree. |
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| 8MM must be thick enough. |
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| Unfortunately, the tree is dead. |
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| Non-locking carabiner, gate against the rock. |
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| All that webbing and they come up a few inches short and leave the climbing rope running over rock edges. |
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| Don't need the webbing or the carabiner. The two best manufacturers recently recalled their locking carabiners. |
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| Lame placement, climbing rope as anchor tied with half hitches. |
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| Learn to tie a real knot. |
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| More half hitches. |
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| Anchored to a dead tree. |
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| Quadruple backup, all betting on a clove hitch. |
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| See how high it got? The ties need work, Access Fund didn't know what to do, brought in PATC, they had ideas but NPS wouldn't approve. Nothing happens. |
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| The railroad tie is floating, it is held by rebar connecting it to the range of ties. |
