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Some of us like our High Fructose Corn Syrup, dessert level sweet peanut butter, that also doesn't separate, thank you very much! Is it bad for me? Almost assuredly! Do I care when I'm eating it with a spoon? Almost not at all! You will pry my Skippy from cold, dead, somewhat greasy hands!

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Instructions told me to tie a reef knot - I did a zeppelin bend instead

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You got a link and a description, I'll add a quick instruction.

Tie off the standing end, cross the space and around your close anchor. Stop. About 1/3 of the way across the gap(unless it's a very long span, then just a comfortable distance) make a loop. Best knot IMO here is a bowline on a bight, but I'm not explaining that here lol so tie a double overhand, the one you certainly know to make a loop. That will lock up but that's a problem for tomorrow. Now, pass the working end that's gone around the anchor through the loop, and back towards the anchor. Pull on that shit! You have as much room as you left to the loop to draw right with. I usually go back around the anchor and finish with a double fisherman's, while controversial, I like the ability to slide the locking knot loose, and am comfortable with friction holding it.

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Instructions told me to tie a reef knot - I did a zeppelin bend instead

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There are many other knots used commonly in climbing and he named a few. You cannot tie off a three way anchor with a figure 8, a bowline is not safe for human weight because it can invert, despite being used for thousand pound logs all day everyday at my job... And it's funny he called it a reef to me, all my sailing buddies call it a reef, all my climbing friends say square, and hardly use it. A sheet bend is really hardy for hauling loads up the wall, a prussic for a repel device, and an alpine butterfly for tripoint anchors.

Edit: this is more about Trad climbing than sport or toprope. If you didn't set the anchor on a toprope and your guide/partner isn't into carabiner/harness setups, yea you're gonna tie a lot of double 8s

I am a few stages into the knit obsession, I own the Ashley Book and have a couple project knots displayed in my house.

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Buckle up!

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I think it's silly, not offensive. I live in a rural area, lemme ride my bike 29 miles to the store for my weeks groceries hurhur car-brained