EMR, You would really go nuts watching me climb. I use a tautline, tied in the tail of my climbing line most of the time. For recreation, I will use a MT or occasionally a Swabish. I show my students about 10 different hitches and let them decide what they like best. Most use the Blake's. I stay with the tautline, which I learned with Davey, 40 years ago this June, because I know how it works under all sorts of conditions and I can tie it one handed, behind my back if I need to recrotch in a very tight situation. Remember, when I started I was not shown anything as fancy as a lanyard, split tail or other fancy stuff, just a lot of double crotching with the tail of the climbing line. Even started using double bowline on a bight for a saddle. A real old fart!!
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Bob Underwood, Associate Professor of Forestry
ND School of Forestry
Minot State University - Bottineau Campus
Bottineau, North Dakota |