New season, same old stuff.

We don't need no stinking laws of physics.

Well, it's sort of a bowline.

The little cam with the carabiner gate pointed down towards the rock is the primary anchor. Buying a cordalette, doesn't ensure equalization.

 

Warm enough for January.

An unnecessary sling and carabiner, gate down so it could be forced open, plus stretchy 8mm, and an overhand knot.

Part of the spider's web.

The rest of the spider's web.

 

It's a joke, but we're seeing a lot like it. No stopper knot, courtesy of the AMGA.

Learn to tie a bowline with a bight.

The other anchors were bowlines, he had the rope but didn't know how to tie the knot with a bight. Two problems with using carabiners, a single carabiner is a point of failure and, yes, people steal carabiners from anchors. It is more common at Great Falls but not unheard of at Carderock.

 

Well, it's a backup.

The nice fat rope is a good anchor, the tiny cord with single wire gate carabiners, not so much. He's using a cam and a nut, prone to ripping right out in the rock. Somebody asked if that was a myth. We live in a city of stone buildings, not one made from this rock, it is never used where it would be weight bearing.

 

Another air anchor.

If you must use this tree, how about putting the rope BELOW the weak spot.

 

Not what they mean by redundant.

Fortunately the kid climbing on this anchor weighed about 40 pounds, still, dumb is dumb.

 

New year, same stuff.

Trying to open that carabiner on the tree stump.

He knows the clove hitch isn't stable, so he clips in a real knot.

A skinny 9MM rope with webbing attempting to rip the tiny tree out by the roots.