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Knots, hitches, and bends
The ones we know
- Knots
- Overhand knot
- Figure-8 on a bight knot
- Figure-8 follow through knot
- Bowline knot
- Alpine Butterfly knot
- Bends
- Water knot (ring bend)
- Double-fisherman’s knot (bend)
- Hitches
- Clove hitch
- Trucker’s hitch
- Prusik hitch
- Munter hitch
- Combinations
- Munter mule hitch
- Radium release hitch
- Formations
- Eye
- Bight
- Skills
- Rope
- Flake
- Coil and secure warp
- Rope rescue system – RRS
- Anchors
- Progress capture
- Mechanical advantage
- Toboggan
- Securing the load
- Towing
- Stabilization
- Rope
The “Eye” – the beginning of all (most) ropecraft

Overhand knot

The clove hitch

The bight

Overhand-on-a-bight loop

Double Fisherman’s Bend

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Water Knot, Ring Bend

Wrap-3, Pull-2

Wrap-3, Pull-2, with a staging knot – overhand-on-a-bight

Bowline

Mechanical Advantage: 3_2_1

Alpine Butterfly Knot

When to use which knot?
Drawings by Matt Strauser
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