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| Rig all the climbs by 8:30 and hang your hammocks. |
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| Don't for get your flags. |
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| No bolts here, so you will come up short. The cam is levering up a loose block. |
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| 7 MM anchors, the good news, they left them behind. |
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| More 7 MM, at least it isn't making much contact. |
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| Good idea to have the tie off be less than 10 feet from the main knot. |
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| String your hammock across the trail. |
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| Way up the tree, lots of extra rope but they went with an unneeded runner and carabiner. The clove hitch is ok for an anchor you can see, not so good when it is loaded and unloaded so it can loosen. |
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| If one knot is good, are two better? |
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| And the carabiner is for... |
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| Piles of extra rope but he used a carabiner instead of a knot. |
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| More tree climbing. |
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| The webbing is way up the tree, increasing leverage on the trunk, which is virtually hollow at the base. |
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| Non-static 9MM rope will stretch a lot and cut. Note the rope 3 feet up the tree in the background and the quicklinks, not carabiners, on both anchors. Quicklinks have a screw collar and no gate. They might be used in rappel anchors, not really for climbing. |
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| Summer is coming, camp counselors in search of a clue. |
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| 1. Single strand webbing, easy to cut 2. The sling around the block needs the stoppers to stay in place. Stoppers break the rock here, the gates of the carabiners are pointed down easily forced open. |
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| Lots more single strand webbing. The tree at left is anchored half was up the trunk, increasing leverage on the tree. The red webbing in the center goes around one of the two rocks. If you use both rocks, it never moves, if you use one it can move. |
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| Sometimes you wonder how old school got to be that old. Ratty old climbing rope and a couple of stoppers. |
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| 1. The rope and the enormous tree would have been fine. 2. There is enough rope to do another anchor if you must have overkill. 3. The 90 degree angle anchor is decreasing the strength of the system. 4. The white runner is side loading the carabiners, decreasing their strength. 5. The white dyneema is threaded through single strand nylon, in a real anchor it could cut the nylon. |
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| 1. insecure clove hitch, 2. unnecessary carabiner and sling, 3. tiny tree, 4 What is with that sling? Guaranteed to lever the roots right out of the ground, and... |
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| enough extra rope to tie a completely adjustable bowline to a real anchor. |
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| The blue webbing through the 8MM is not great, I guess the good news is that it isn't holding any weight. |
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| The clove hitch isn't a great knot in this situation, so he added the overhand on a bight. A bowline in the black rope would be every bit as adjustable and eliminate the carabiner and runner. |
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| The rope is coming from far off to the left. The crack with the cams is part of a big flake. |
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| It appears that the shaft is all that is holding the gold cam. |
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| Lobes are pretty much making zero contact. |
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| Where did this come from? The high anchor that is supposedly braced by the two anchors. They aren't carrying much of a load, if any. |
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| Nylon on nylon, rope through webbing, not a good thing, use carabiners if necessary. |
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| Brand new anchor, but they got the wrong stuff. They had only enough webbing to reach as a single strand, highly likely to cut. This tree and rock are close to the cliff, so this anchor won't work for most Carderock climbs |
