Double Duty for the Alpine Butterfly
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Originally Posted by
Knotty
The zeppelin bend has similar reliability as the alpine butterfly bend. If you can tie an alpine butterfly loop, you can also tie it as a bend, and then you have one less knot to remember... :)
Re: Essential Outdoor Knots, according to Rat!
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Originally Posted by
jbrescue
Either I missed something or, the Tautline hitch was excluded. This is an essential knot for the outdoors and a required one for Scouts.
As a technical rescue guy, I can say this, the more you can do without hardware, the better you will be. Too many people get reliant on carabiners and straps. You can do almost anything with rope and good knot skills.
The midshipmans hitch is the taught line hitch.
The Boy Scouts, actually published a less than ideal variation.
Read here for more info:
http://www.animatedknots.com/rollinghitch/
This variation works much better, IMO.
http://www.animatedknots.com/imagesp...ling_hitch.jpg