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I took some kids out climbing last night at a small crag popular for top roping, but I wasn't too impressed with their choice of anchor placements, or lack of additional hardware considering their ...
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System
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2020-04-17T23:37:57Z (over 4 years ago)
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ShemSeger
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2020-04-17T23:37:56Z (over 4 years ago)
<p>I took some kids out climbing last night at a small crag popular for top roping, but I wasn't too impressed with their choice of anchor placements, or lack of additional hardware considering their placement. On one of the routes, if you were to clip into the bolt hangers, you'd be unavoidably crossroading your carabiners. </p> <p>I had a 120cm nylon sling on me, so my solution was to extend the anchor over the bulge of rock like so:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNPRy.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNPRy.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> <p>It seemed pretty SRENE to me, the only flaw was the potential for extension, but using a bulky nylon sling seemed to make extension less of an issue, when I unclipped one of my biners to test how it would extend, it simply didn't. The amount of friction generated from the nylon made it very difficult to pull through, I actually turned one of the hangers a bit while trying.</p> <p>My question is, is this an appropriate method of extending an anchor? What would be a better method of extending an anchor such as this one?</p> <p><sup>The Crag:</sup> <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wbzZH.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wbzZH.jpg" alt="The Crag"></a></p>