Sunday, April 24, 2011

Ryan's "Knot"

It's funny - when I was a Cub Scout I couldn't learn to tie knots to save my life. Years later I became interested in finding the most difficult way to traverse vertical stretches of rock and very quickly learned to tie a number of surprisingly useful knots.

I planned to break out the rope and show off a bit but ran out of time. Instead I found the one knot that I tie daily:



It's worth noting that this knot fails regularly. I wouldn't use it on the rocks.

/rl

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