Maybe you were out of carabiners, it was getting dark, you forgot your headlamp, there was no walkable way out, shit was dire, and the only way you could save the baby was if you girth hitched all your dyneema to your webbing.
But I was there, it was 1 in the afternoon, there were no babies, and you were just no good at building anchors.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
10 minutes of pickin' on Jankety Ass Anchors: Today is RIPE!!!
All of this in just a 10 minute walk at the Ouray Ice Park. Today was ripe!
The classic non-redundant carabiner, complete with ropes running over the walkway instead of an extended anchor. Otherwise, bomber! Sewn, new 1" webbing, new fat rope, shiny new, ungrooved carabiner.
This chap clearly doesn't know how to tie knots. Or clip carabiners. What's the dealeo with jamming the gate in the chain link? And why not bother to make a non-extending anchor?
Oh...
Because the rest of it wasn't redundant.
I can't understand why my photo came out this way, but here's a twisted up clove hitch. Laziness!
Redundant, solid, equalized, and non-extending. But not locked because...?
Monday, January 21, 2013
And then there's this guy...
The dirty laundry anchor. I only see one sock. Or maybe that's a carabiner that has no business there and should be adding redundancy to the masterpoint. And then there's all the schnaedle laid over it or tangled in it...
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