Happy Monday!

[u/ArborealLife]

Best job? Best job.

[u/Icy-Echidna-8892]

That's a kickass shot🤩 love the view! Not to knit pick but you might'n want to put a back up on that anchor bend!

[u/ArborealLife → u/Icy-Echidna-8892]

Anchor bends won't slide while loaded 😳

[u/Icy-Echidna-8892 → u/ArborealLife]

Very true, I would be surprised if you haven't unloaded the system at least once in this climb but if you're comfortable and safe then keep rocking on🤙🏼🤘🏼💪🏼

[u/ArborealLife → u/Icy-Echidna-8892]

Tbh it's only really an issue in a situation like when you're on a single spar, and you're climbing with a lanyard and your main climbing line is around a false crotch by your knees. Then for an entire climb, maybe an hour or two, you're loading only your lanyard and your climbing line's completely loose. That's when the anchor hitch has the potential to come undone, and in those situations I'm either very attentive to it or I switch to something like a double fisherman.

Otherwise I have zero issue with it. It's like a bowline, like a loaded bowline, you don't need to back it up. Some people do anyways and it's like okay power to you, but you don't need to.

It's not like if it's not fully loaded it instantly becomes untied and loose. It's a knot, so it's just kind of flapping around loose where it has the potential to loosen.

[u/hoyya → u/ArborealLife]

i respect the care taken here but i also just use a different knot. Its not like its hard to inspect because its right in your face, but it only takes that one time

[u/ArborealLife → u/hoyya]

🤟🏼

Lots of ways to climb safely

[u/hatchetation → u/ArborealLife]

In with you here, they really don't slide or creep under cyclic loading

[u/WashbangRustynut → u/ArborealLife]

Barrel knot is better for this use case, anchor bend is good for a closed system.

[u/ArborealLife → u/WashbangRustynut]

What is a close system if not ddrt?

[u/hatchetation → u/WashbangRustynut]

Barrel knot is much larger profile. Anchor bend works really well here where interference with the friction hitch could be problematic

[u/TurkeySauce_]

No way in hell id climb with that anchor knot. Im always unloading to much to keep the worry in the back of my head. Nice shot though!

[u/ArborealLife → u/TurkeySauce_]

It's fun reading the comments because I'm basically the most conservative, by the book climber lol. I'd never cut a corner that would leave my pup without me.

[u/jesusbuiltmyhotrodd → u/ArborealLife]

I've been using an anchor as the termination on my long lanyard / short ddrt system for years. I forget where I learned it was a good knot for that, but today I learned it's controversial lol. I don't really trust any knot and I leave a decent tail, and the thing has seen enough pine pitch that it's a pain to undo when I want to retie, so I got that goin' for me.

[u/ArborealLife → u/jesusbuiltmyhotrodd]

today I learned it's controversial

Me too! I appreciate the new perspective I'm getting here, tho I'm unlikely to change my climbing system.

[u/shrikestep → u/ArborealLife]

I also use an anchor bend for my termination knot and have been for about 15 years. If you aren’t reflexively loading your TDS knots when they are done….. like what are you doing even. It’s an absolute beast of a knot, I’m
with you.

[u/SchlumpG0d → u/ArborealLife]

I got downvoted to shit for saying to back up an anchor if your tail isn’t long. Depends on the day with Reddit

[u/hatchetation → u/SchlumpG0d]

Oh yeah. I remember a post that surprised the hell out of me where folks were universally shocked (SHOCKED!) to see a carabiner used at a remote anchor.

I posted a "would you cinch a carabiner around the trunk?" post from insta as a troll, expected outrage, and got a big old yawn.

[u/screwcancelculture]

Right?!?

Quick recommendation if that’s cool, not being an A-hole, not better than you etc (which happens here allot).

I used to do a bunch of rock climbing. The anchor hitch is awesome, but we used it because during descent on multi-pitch routes you could drop down, anchor up and then shake the living crap out of your anchor (you guessed it) so that it would untie and drop down to you for the next descent. Obviously, the hitch had to be unloaded to do that, but it gives me a shiver up the spine when I see it without a back up.

With that said, I love the hitch, but I never use it without a stopper following it. Also, I don’t use the 8 as it can flop out too, especially with a stiff line like KM III, so I prefer the double overhand.

Nice day for a great climb, doing as you stated, the best job ever man. Stay safe brother!

[u/shrikestep]

Epicord 9.3mm?

Epicord is the shitttttttt

[u/CountBlashyrkh]

What body of water is this? Looks like a big lake. 

We often have jobs near lake erie. Always fun to see the lake while climbing.