My favourite building-an-anchor-with-the-rope snafu was at Buffalo. Got to a hanging belay and needed a secondary anchor point to haul off of. You can use the lead rope to build a main anchor, so you can use the haul line to build a hauling anchor right? Look at me, solving problems on the wall.
Bring the others up, haul, dock the wombat to the hauling anchor, give the new leader the rack, and now just hand him the end of the haul line to trail............ah........ok we have an actual problem now. |