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Figure 8 tripLe Loop

A variation of the figure 8 that creates three
loops in the rope.

The figure 8 triple loop (sometimes called the triple fig- will not alter in size once the final knot is tightened. As
ure 8 loop) creates three loops that allow a climber to with the triple bowline (see page 68), the figure 8 triple
secure one rope to three anchors. Once mastered, this loop could be used, in an emergency, as a chair sling to
knot ties quickly and forms three secure fixed loops that raise or lower a person with one loop for each leg and the

Figure 8 Triple Loop: Step 1 Figure 8 Triple Loop: Step 2

Knots You need: CLimBing Knots

Form a large bight in the rope and twist the Reach through the loop and grasp the doubled
bight into a loop as if starting a simple figure rope. Bring the doubled rope through the loop
8 (see page 28). as if tying a figure 8 with draw loop (see page
GREEN liGht 24). You are now at a point where you could tie

This knot may be used by campers and boaters who a figure 8 double loop (see page 116).
want to attach three objects to the end of one rope.

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