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chill
climber
The fat part of the bell-curve
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Damn we're a consumerist society, aren't we?
You don't need to spend cash on a book, this isn't complicated. A few different diameters of cordage, overhands, fig-8s, monkey fist.** Animated GIFs, youtube vids, and step-by-step pics for almost any knot you can think of are available all over the web for free.
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Good thing none of that counts as "consumption".
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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I've climbed on knots in Czech and it wasn't nearly as bad as I had hoped. Mostly they were tied "bight" style meaning the two tails came out of the same end of the knot, No fancy knots there: most were overhands or figure-8s tied with various diameters of rope for different crack sizes. They would leave them a bit loose, stuff them into the crack, poke them back with a stick then cinch them down.
They were actually pretty damn bomber.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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^^^ true...assuming you could find something to jab them into.
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Is jamming stones into cracks, putting slings around them, and clipping in legal in Czechoslovakia?
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