There's no shiny bolt near it and it would look prettier with one.

He's got a #1 clipped to the #.75. It seems the #1 would've been a better choice. Other than that, you got me!

Biner gate should be down and out but that is probably too old school for you guys to notice.

i think i know. he gave his placement too much thought, didn't he? when you lead a trad route you should just shove in gear without paying too much attention to whether it will hold a lead fall because if you look at it too closely it'll make you worry and your climbing will suffer.

That guy placing the cam is my milkman, Frank Henderson, who has absolutely no business climbing.
He is currently collecting on a lawsuit that states that he is crippled due to a customer (me) forgetting to remove ice from my driveway back in December.
He claims that he is paralyzed and can't walk, yet here he is, up on some route, placing gear.
What a frickin' posing liar.

Hi Jed,

Ok, so maybe it isn't Frank Henderson in the video.
But I truly feel that milkmen have no business climbing, whatsoever.

The 3 day carrot is what is really wrong...........silly rabbits.....

there looks to be some sting hanging from the webbing by the biner that is facing the wrong way. Could it be the webbing maybe coming apart?

I would use the bigger size cam

Other than that, I give

As it appears in the video (and I'm just making a wild assumption here about what is really going on), he's teaching someone leading concepts when it appears the learner has never even followed trad. There's a lot more to anchor building and leading than throwing in one cam and clipping it.

As someone mentioned, the piece looks undercammed. It could pop out or it could walk so far back they'll have a helluva time extracting it.

After 96 hours of analyazizaiton this is the conclusive conclusion I attained:

An utter lack of attractive (top-less) females?

Whad up, JF,
are you ever gonna fill us in on your Keen eye sight...What does yer good eye see that nobody else could figure out?
Andrea

you place the piece "in the back of the rock"?????

Obviously, he's a sissy because he's not placing a mammoth hex, or perhaps some sort of stove leg, in the big pod below. Sissies with their "camming devices".

I believe Jeff is going to say that the guy should have clipped the biner directly to the camalot. I have climbed a little with him and he cuts the loops off of all of his gear. If I am correct, he will have to explain the rationale.

I have been cutting the loop of my cams sence I bought my first cam. Its nice cause they dont hang to low on my rack (I'm a short guy) and if I climb anywhere like paridise forks or indian creek I just girth hitch a sewn sling on. Any time I'm multi-pitch climin or anything longer its nice to not have that extra weight or to have lose cams hanging to my knees(like I said I'm short).But to the subject at hand please let us know what you see that we dont.

Frankly, I'm appalled and flabergasted at the apparant lack of common sense in not placing a stick of C-4 & detonator along the stem-line of the cam. I mean what if a gopher should happen upon this crag? Think of the children that could have been saved..

I don't know how to crack climb but my guess is --

if he is leading, may be he will have his right hand in the crack about where he places the cam....and he will have to put the piece in with his left hand instead?

Or... if he is leading and with his left hand on a hand hold or in the crack, he will put the piece in with his right hand and test pull it with his right hand too?

Or... if he is placing the piece standing on a ledge, then he may hit the ledge if he fell on that piece?

Or, he did not take the other piece off and put a quick draw to clip the rope.... and where is the rope???

Hahaha... just some silly thoughts :P

I've decided not to tell, however, looking for the sixth finger on his left hand is definitely looking outside the box and on the right track.

JF

you're right john that is bullshit.