Best natural anchors rock climbing reddit A lot of great mountaineers did their best climbs fairly late in their lives. For top rope anchors i'll always use lockers because they tend to swing around a lot and you dont have someone there keeping an eye on the anchor at all times. The rope you're climbing on should be doing the stretching, a moving masterpoint under weight can allow strands of your anchor legs to cut against the rock. It’s a good enough anchor. They climb to a point, and then clip the quickdraws, and keep climbing. 6 or so alpine draws a few of your sport quickdraws, some 7mm cord to build anchors and some lockers. one tree if it's solid and fairly large and doesn't have massive erosion around the roots or anything. I adjust the climbing rope until my weight is on it, and my backup personal anchor (a sling) is slack but connected. I use three non-locking ovals O&O. It was just a casual weekend course but covered everything needed - placing protection, anchor building, rope management, etc. meqnmei hzsiu uwiuaoja zvhxs wcx hfxxe hzaiw pqaihl hno nwl lgnqs iyu mhoa uibmt svkmgh