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It was taken this past Saturday above Squiggles.
The Party climbing on it was made up of four women and the "leader" had very tattooed arms and a bit an of an attitude.

If you know them please tell them to get some certified instruction

I don't see the problem... they used locking biners. For safety.

Maybe the tree was still alive before they anchored to it?

Yes on the locking and 2 of them at that

Thank God there was a boulder on one end and a nice pile of leaves on the other to keep the dead tree stable.

Despite all the hand wringing and that it looks sketch as hell, it's probably stronger and more secure than anyone suspects. It's a TR anchor after all, not something that needs to withstand a FF2 winger.

Not advocating this kind of anchor, but there were a few times BITD where I'd have been overjoyed with something that solid (as compared to what I was forced to use).

I can remember BITD when I was taught to place pro for anchors in series so that they could maybe catch, one after another, as the previous piece was expected to blow if someone fell. Who knew anything about shock loading? We've probably all had to anchor off a piece of grass on an alpine route at one time or another and then kiss the ground later when you made it off, to scare yourself again later. Hope I never see those anchors again and really appreciate that you don't know what you don't know, hence a great service if someone can tactfully let this climber in on some anchor beta.

Hard to believe they could lower a climber with the rope bending over the edge like that. Repeated laps could easily = sheath damage.

So much for redundancy.

That's nowhere close to the worst TR anchor. I saw a guy TR'ing off the second ring pin on Betty 25 years ago, clipped with a single oval non-locking biner. And it was as shiny as the one in the images posted in this thread. Well Betty is only 5.3. I mean, no one has ever fallen on 5.3... right? And Squiggles is only 5.4 and hardly anyone ever falls on 5.4. So they were safe.