Saturday, October 28, 2023

Darwin Award winner.

Run the rope over a small rock and see if you can pull it out of the ground.

The anchors are almost 180 degrees apart, single carabiners, and the anchors are way up in the trees. The tree on the right was shaking violently.



 

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Return of clothes line.

If you really want two anchors, don't make them off the same point.

A couple of cams aren't a great help in this brittle rock.

All that mess converges on one thin runner.

The dead stump and skinny tree seem to call to people.

The stump has 1/4" clothes line, this hasn't been seen in decades.

The skinny tree gets a fat haul strap.

The clothes line goes to a single quick link, not a carabiner, there is no gate. I think that is a leaf caught in the rope.

Here the stump is paired with a tree with mostly exposed roots.

The anchors meet at two non-locking ovals that are being side loaded.

This is what you call suboptimal, the rope can saw away at the webbing.

We call this a yard sale, lay out everything you own and clip it together.

Not quite a tensionless anchor, the lines shouldn't cross and three wraps are the minimum.

Another daisy chain, these things are expensive for anchors.
 

Friday, October 6, 2023

Tie off a big enough rock.

 

The single rock has been known to move. Sling both rocks, they have never moved.

I wouldn't use that, and I wouldn't tie a bowline without a stopper knot.

Don't leave your expensive haul bag at the top for somebody to steal.

Maybe the extra rope piled at the left wasn't enough to get around the boulder. Note the unstable clove hitch backed up with an overhand.