How to Tie Square Knot

Hi! I am Ali from Fitclimb. We are at Point Defiance Park in Washington State and today I am going to show you some basic survival and climbing knots. I am also going to demonstrate how to pack a backpack with basic backpacking in mountaineering equipment. So without any further delay, let's get started.

So the first knot I'm going to show you today is called the square knot and its use to tie two ends of the rope together. I wouldn’t trust it for climbing but it works really well for shelter crop or for example to make your rope longer and also to tie down equipment. To tie a square knot I've got my two ends of my rope and I'm going to go left over right first, loop through or you could go right over left you just have to remember which side you went because then the second step you're going to do the opposite which is right over left.

I go make and overhand knot so I basically made two overhand knots. Notice the two ends are both pointing in the same direction and I just tie it. To pull it apart you pull 180 degrees from one end in the body and it just pops open and then you can just peel it open.


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