Page 9 - Backpacker Magazine's Outdoor Knots
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Contents
Introduction ix
Chapter One: Knot Basics 1
Overhand Knot 5
Chapter Two: Joining Knots (Bends) 7
Square Knot 7
Sheet Bend 9
One-way Square Knot 11
Water Knot 13
Double Fisherman’s Knot 16
Flat Overhand Bend 18
Chapter Three: Loop Knots 20
Overhand Loop 20
Figure-8 Loop 22
Slip Knot 25
Bowline 27
Double Bowline 34
Bowline on a Bight 36
Butterfly 38
Inline Figure-8 43
Chapter Four: Attaching Knots (hitches) 44
Girth Hitch 44
Clove Hitch 47
Two Half Hitches 54
Buntline Hitch 56
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