Unusual Girth hitch technique -ok?

Yeah. At no point have I advocated a single point anchor made from a single strand; I just suggested that it was not unusual to make each of the three points of the anchor single-strand. I.e. one strand of webbing to a tree, one to a boulder and one to a nut in a crack. None of them doubled or looped, but all three leading to a single master point.

That sounds great

Kiri Namtvedt wrote:I don't mean to beat a dead horse re: the single strand of webbing, but in the midwest it seems like we end up having to find anchor points that are a ways away from the top of the climb, and thus it's often easier to run a single strand of webbing from each anchor point to the master point. That just seems normal to me, and has never seemed unsafe. At Shovel Point and Palisade Head along the north shore of Lake Superior, for instance, there are spots where the only anchors are a good 20 feet from the edge of the cliff.