Yosemite bowline
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A Yosemite bowline is a very secure loop knot. It is a bowline
with the free end wrapped around one leg of the loop and tucked back through the knot, a final round turn and reeve http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reeve commonly known as a "Yosemite finish."
In addition to being more secure than a standard bowline, the Yosemite variant is also easier to untie after a load. Rock climbers
often exploit both advantages in using the modified knot to secure heavy haul bags. While the knot's versatility suggests it as a convenient tie-in for attaching a climbing rope to a climber's harness, the figure-of-eight follow through remains the most common choice because it is more widely known and perhaps more easily checked.
Bowline
The bowline is an ancient and simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope. It has the virtues of being both easy to tie and untie. The bowline is sometimes referred as King of the knots because of its importance...
with the free end wrapped around one leg of the loop and tucked back through the knot, a final round turn and reeve http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reeve commonly known as a "Yosemite finish."
In addition to being more secure than a standard bowline, the Yosemite variant is also easier to untie after a load. Rock climbers
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
often exploit both advantages in using the modified knot to secure heavy haul bags. While the knot's versatility suggests it as a convenient tie-in for attaching a climbing rope to a climber's harness, the figure-of-eight follow through remains the most common choice because it is more widely known and perhaps more easily checked.
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