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Icicle Hitch with Loop

When force has been applied to a post, or somewhere parallel to it, that’s
when you’d need the Icicle Hitch! It’s one of the most reliable knots
around, and have gained quite a good reputation when it was mentioned in a
couple of sailing magazines.

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Instructions:

1. First, go and wrap the rope around a pole. Do this four times until
you go and reach the end.
2. Now, make sure that you go and leave a hanging loop, and that you

let it pass to the end of the rope, and then back again.
3. Let the loop pass behind both rope ends before having it hooked to
the pole.
4. Make sure that you’d have the knot tightened, and make sure that it

would be parallel with the rope.