Give the tree roots a break.

Aside from being too small, give the tree roots a break.

It was crowded but a three inch cedar is a poor choice.

If the top anchor breaks the tree, maybe the lower anchor will work.

Don't sling the refrigerator. See the overhang, that wasn't there years ago.

Why?

Everybody used to know that bowlines REALLY need the end tied off, people got killed. Increasingly, people aren't doing it. Unclear where this is coming from, any ideas?

After years of searching, the worst anchors ever.

It's a bight of the middle of the rope, like a tensionless anchor, just wrapped, no knot. The guy rapped on this, so it's a miracle.

The runner is nose clipped, side loading the carabiner.

Another miracle anchor. 

Is it a double fisherman's if the halves are 5 feet apart?

It's all about choices.

He tied a bowline around the tree, but that isn't part of the anchor unless the clove hitch, carabiner, and runner fail. The fact that he did tie the bowline means he understands that the clove hitch isn't secure and he has added two points of failure. A bowline on a bight around the tree would be ideal.

Why we're losing trees.

The webbing is not at the base of the tree, so it is pulling much harder on the tree. The 8MM in the background is at least 12 feet up the tree. We have to stop this.

What's wrong with this picture?

Nice anchor to the big tree, but the second anchor takes a 90 degree turn to a runner and carabiner on the tiny tree. The tiny tree is taking all the force. If it fails there will be about 20 feet of slack.

Thinnest cord ever?

Might be 7mm. I've seen short pieces of 6 mm, but they had 40 feet or so of this stuff.  It can cut, and stretches so much that you will hit the ground until you are about 8 feet off the ground.

Tie every knot you know.

This little tree is the only anchor.

Because the hex has slack and is just a backup.

Might be two figure 8s with stopper knots and a clove hitch. They added a point of failure with the carabiner, gate pointing down towards the rock.

Extra links are not a good idea.

Carabiner plus mystery knot.

Lots of extra rope, instead cordalette, carabiner, and three knots.

Tiny tree with climbing rope anchor.

Dead tree plus tiny tree equals?

Yep, big tree's dead.

Bowline with no stopper knot.

Tiny tree and dumb clove hitch. The bowline is just as adjustable. 

Snag those pesky hikers.

That's about four feet up the tree.

The anchor tripped people while I was watching.

How many ropes on the tiny tree?

Poor picture, the rope is just below the branch.

Thus stuff was piled next to the trail, begging to be stolen.

Really?

Nine more climbs for the Carderock Beta Channel.

After editing, they will join the others at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW042k3ycr0TCnCuhAYExbQ

Maybe that's how they do it in Russia.

That's the climbing rope.

Too skinny tree. That's also a climbing rope, being used as an anchor. Since it is dynamic, it is abrading every time it is weighted.

How to snare unsuspecting hikers.

Thank God it isn't the only anchor.

When they say a tree anchor should be 6" in diameter, none of that should be air.

Yeah, those twigs don't add up to an anchor. Don't leave your stuff at the top of the crag, it isn't safe.

Buy more rope, it's cheap. Green bucket is about the shortest anchor at Carderock, so this guy has a future of coming up short.

Everything he owned.

Didn't use the rope and came up short with an assortment of junk, all to get a tiny hex in the system.

Cam to nowhere.

Same old Saturday.

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Barely a tensionless anchor with no apparent knot.

You can see the pile of static rope. He went with webbing way up the tree.

Why use it? Because he owns it.

He had plenty of rope, but added a sling, knots, single carabiners, etc.

Buy a little more rope.

8MM cord, single carabiner.

Same thing, note the clove hitch with half a double fisherman's as a backup. If you know the clove hitch isn't stable, don't use it.

Both knots are grinding on rock edges.

Macrame?

If it's Sunday, it's WTF?

Need gear? This "professional" left a haul bag full with no-one in sight.

Same "professional" tied this.

We know instructors are exempt from the laws of physics.

No, this is not a real anchor.

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