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top roping from rap anchors 5-Aug-2005 At 9:42:25 PM aikibujin

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I'm obviously pretty ignorant when it comes to climbing, so please excuse all the stupid questions I'll be asking.

>You should equalise to avoid cross loading the bolts.

What exactly is "cross loading", and how do you cross load bolts?

>No mater what the propper practice is you see many people simply top
>ropeing through the bolts (if they are rings which i understand there is
>no many of in the states) This is bad because it creates a large death triangle and also puts wear on a non redundant part of the system.

Besides putting wear on the anchor (which I agree is bad), I don't quite understand how you can create a death triangle when you top rope through the bolts directly. Could someone explain to me, in simple high school level physics so I could understand, how threading the rope through the fixed anchor directly creates a death triangle?