By Duane Raleigh
1998 nationwide open air ebook Award winner. easy methods to tie 35 hiking knots: step by step illustrations, easy-to-follow instructions, while to take advantage of and never to exploit, and specialist suggestion on choice and care of ropes.
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Is this my braking hand? Am I tied in right? The best thing is to go slow. Learn the rudiments one at a time, then as you become expert in each of those, add the specialized. The process will continue forever; I've climbed for more than two decades and am still learning. Where do you begin? You could climb forever knowing only five knots. The Figure Eight Follow-Through will work in all situations as your tie-in knot. A variation, the Figure Eight Fisherman's, will always work well to join rope to rope.
Page 45 Prusik Knot. Prusik Before a Swiss bird scientist invented mechanical ascenders in the 1960s, climbers used the Prusik Knot to ascend fixed ropes. This variation on the Girth Hitch grips the rope like a clenched fist when you weight it. Unweight the knot, and you can easily slide it up the rope. Use two Prusiks and you can alternate weighting and unweighting and shimmy up a rope. On the first ascent of El Capitan's Nose in 1958, Warren Harding and team fixed 2,000 feet of rope and prusiked all of it.
For that onerous task we've employed the JPGts of the inkman Mike Clelland. He lives up in the rough mountains of Idaho and practices what he draws most every day. His scratch-pen drawings take you step by step through tying each knot. The words that follow are meant to provide insight into the knot's uses, and in some cases touch on the abstract. Study the illustrations, mouth the words, and you'll find that tying even the most roundabout knots is easy. Of course, you should practice your knots somewhere other than on the cliff or mountain.