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Survival Skillset

Lesson 10 of 12

Knots and lashings

1 hour

There are thousands of knots. You need about ten, known so well that you can tie them in the dark, with cold, wet hands, while thinking about something else. That is the standard to aim for, because that is when you will need them: pitching a tarp by head torch in rain, lashing a splint, tying off a line to haul a pack across a gap.

In this lesson

  • Vocabulary and dressing a knot
  • Loops and bends
  • Bowline
  • Figure of eight
  • Sheet bend
  • Hitches: tying to things
  • Clove hitch
  • Round turn and two half hitches
  • Timber hitch
  • Tension: taut-line, trucker's hitch and prusik
  • Taut-line hitch
  • Trucker's hitch

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