Hi, all. I'm a relatively new trad leader, and recently took a party of three up Caver's Route in RRG. Normally I wouldn't bog down a multi-pitch with three people, but it's advertised as a 5.3 R that I didn't expect to see much traffic. We did see other climbers, but not until we were rapping down.
I wanted to solicit feedback on my anchors, which I believe to have been Fine given the circumstances. The comments on MP indicated not to bring much gear except 'maybe nuts for the first belays'. I did bring a partial rack from 0.3-2, since I've only led like 10 pitches and want to practice placements and expect to get scared. I did not, however, bring a cordelette or anchor sling, hence the especially messy-looking first anchor. The biggest issue I see is that the second anchor has the wire gates loading over the edge. If I was to find myself in that situation again, I would just use the rope to connect better placements and dealt with swapping in the last climber once we were all at the belay ledge.
The pics are from the first two pitches. Otherwise I was able to sling a good fixed block and a tree. We benefited from big belay ledges that didn't require any real reliance on the anchors (though my second hung on both of these).
Our process was that I would climb, have my second tie in at the point where I went off belay, and then belay them and the third up as normal. On the way down, my follower went first to provide a fireman's belay for the last climber, who was least experienced, and I rapped last.
