Show me some terrible rappel anchors

Found this bad boy somewhere in Wyoming, looks bomber, right?

Idk if it counts as an anchor but he sure does rap off it..

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfyXfZuj8pv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Connor Hale wrote:

Idk if it counts as an anchor but he sure does rap off it..

RIP

Love how in the first picture there is a v-thread below the wood.  I would definitely trust the v-thread more than the wood.

Bruno Schull wrote:

Love how in the first picture there is a v-thread below the wood.  I would definitely trust the v-thread more than the wood.

Thats my V-thread because I did indeed not trust that wood

Good work Dirt King.  It's hard to tell only from  a pictue, but I might be inclined to take off the sling and carabiner and push/move that log so nobody would get any bad ideas.  It's like the debate about cutting off old tat...I'm generally for cut, remove, and replace when there is a big rat's nest of old slings, cord, webbing, etc.

https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/112426107

whatever this is. Wow, such redundant. 

its possible that log was buried in the snow as a dead man for the party that rapped off of it?  and it has since melted out?

Its almost a point of pride amongst Alaskan climbers for how small and shitty of alders people will rap off of.    Like people will climb past good anchor ice, past a spruce tree the girth of a large man's torso, just to wrap some shoelace around a few thumb sized alder shoots. Sheesh.

Whoever likes green 6 mil and obscure ice in healey had some good ones this year I found lol

dave custer wrote:

https://www.mountainproject.com/photo/112426107

Still to this day one of the most fucked things I've seen.

Skip to 14min, second most fucked.

Not sure that this qualifies as terrible, but pretty unique. Log frozen into the ice at the base of the Joy pitch on Joy After Pain.

Mark Westfall wrote:

Skip to 14min, second most fucked.

ALRIGHT FUCKING LOWER ME. 

I was wondering why he didn't just downclimb to his last piece and then back it up with his tool, but then you realize his last piece is his first piece and it's waaaaaaaay the f down there. 

"Don't hold the other end of the rope" is something you usually hear on someone's first lower from the anchor's not when lowering this dude who owns balls of brass. 

I guess praise the camera man for grabbing the tool.

I could not watch that..  totally sketched me out how he kept pulling his pick out of his first sticks in the verglass and then whacking away at the tiny bit of ice that he had, abusing it and then moving up. when you get a good first stick on ultra thin ice don't mess with it. move up. its dosen't get any better when you bottom out on the rock and abuse what little ice you have. 

I watched that video too... If I were that guy, no way I would put that video out for the world to see the train wreck of terrible decisions. Also, why the fuck didn't the person filming just throw him a rope?? 

Ira OMC wrote:

I watched that video too... If I were that guy, no way I would put that video out for the world to see the train wreck of terrible decisions. Also, why the fuck didn't the person filming just throw him a rope?? 

That guy (the climber, Scott Adamson) is not around anymore, so the videographer is leaving it for us to critique, apparently. No clue why he didn’t throw him a rope. And with two ropes, he easily could have lowered off of one and stayed on an increasingly better belay as he neared the rock gear. Also, cleaning that gear apparently solidified his ignorance. 

JFC RIP #2. 

reinforcing the concept that the cameraman never dies

Lol at all the ppl here talking down on Scott Adamson’s climbing abilities when no one in this thread is half as good as he was. Keyboard warriors to the max. He climbed it because it looked like a fun challenge and when it became  outside his comfort zone he backed off, end of story.