I thought this climbing anchor was going to be twice as strong (Patreon)

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2023-03-22 13:55:27

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2023-09

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Patrons: This is the 5th of 8 posts for March. I've been wanting to test 3-point climbing anchors for a long time and our new custom steel rigging plate lets us do that... all to find out this particular anchor broke lower than a 12kn amazon carabiner 😂 (which is consistently 18kn fyi). It sparks the question of what is strong enough if you are aiming to have a S.E.R.E.N.E anchor.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-cVlJrGYp/ This isn't revolutionary but is a nice demo of how you can minimize the force on an anchor. This sparked a conversation with a firefighter who teaches ultra-light rescue techniques and I may join in on his next week-long class for that specialized training.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBuOmWym6g/ The previous map broke and the last 5 months we have been going back and forth with the ISA to get this rebuilt. We still struggle with how to incorporate a bunch of private WhatsApp groups onto a resource like this so we can get new people involved in their areas but it will continuously be improved upon. The community page is rebuilt on hownot2.com.

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I thought this was going to be twice as strong

Adrian Torchiana sent 3 webolettes for us to test. I assumed this was going to be 2x as strong but I suppose it is still super good enough! 👉 10% supports us at https://www.extremegear.org/ 👉 10% off Rocky Talkie by clicking https://www.rockytalkie.com/HowNOT2 👉 Our merch is at http://www.hownot2swag.com/ 👉 1000 Patrons makes us viable https://www.patreon.com/howNOTtoHighline 👉 1 time donations really help also https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/slackcessfund 00:00 How these anchors are used 02:51 Testing Webolette Anchors 07:50 Testing Little BFKs