";s:4:"text";s:4044:"I use a double bowline, love how clean/compact it is, and I can untie no problem, while my friends on their fig 8 are still wrestling with their knots.Safety knot/Stopper knot is a misnomer. When I went to teach her the knot instinctively I showed her the yosemite. Filter by flair. save. when i was in a NOLS course they said the tail needs to be twice as long as the knot to be safe. 74 comments. 183.
And yes we are scared of falling.
I’ll change a few things if I make another for myself. 918. The home of Climbing on reddit.
4 comments. The tail makes a number 9 shape as it goes back through.LOVE the yosemite finish. Posted by 18 …
Sure you can do something retarded and end up ruining the system, but that's a completely different issue of the climber being retarded. Created Jul 17, 2008. And yes we are scared of falling. I think the concern some people have with this technique is that there is a possibility that someone could think they did it properly, but actually threaded the rope wrong, thus allowing the figure 8 to possibly come untied. r/climbing. log in sign up. 20. Settings. And if we're gonna get into the world of insanely unlikely but still a glimmer of possibility, then just don't be retarded and use the knot properly.No backup/finish is necessary at all. save.
LOVE the yosemite finish. share. Any and all corrections and advice would be appreciated!An actual Yosemite finish involves the last strand being wrapped around the top again such that it looks like a totally normal eight except there are three strands instead of 2 going back to the climber.I'm not willing to do that.
703k. A Yosemite Bowline "can be" a very secure loop knot when tied correctly, and is a version of the Bowline with the free end wrapped around one leg of the loop and tucked back through the knot, commonly known as a "Yosemite finish." Members. Go back around the top (you'll have 3 strands wrapping around the rope going away from the climber) and then back through as it is there.I know Op's finish as a the New River finish, although the AAI link provided below refers to it as a standard yosemite finish.To know the right way, think of the Yosemite finish as a "Figure 9" knot. Posted by 15 days ago.
20. It's a finishing knot as it doesn't add to the safety of the system minus ensuring that someone has enough tail which is independent of the finishing knot.
A couple of things: a yosemite finish is totally fine except if you somehow load the bight of the knot in multiple directions, for instance say you clip a draw to that bight, in theory it makes the knot roll easier.
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Ha, most climbers I know would be dead. Lost GoPro at Vernal Falls. in the climbing gym i work at we require a double fishermans as a stopper knot because it guarantees you have enough extra tail for the figure 8 to be secure<cue circle-jerk about how it's "unsafe">As far as I am aware, your pictured knot is just a figure-8 with a tuck of the tail end, not a true Yosemite.I really like the Yosemite finish, especially while leading. I had to pull over my climbing partner that works there to instruct their "checker". View Comments . Fullscreen. He demonstrated to me an (admittedly, very unlikely) way in which during an inverted fall a figure-of-eight knot could catch on a bit of equipment, prior to it being fully tightened up and partially undoing. 670. Second, you refer to the fisherman's finish … 0:00.