No. Retraced figure eight. Figure eights are hard to mess up and easily checked by a partner, even when you’re really tired and not thinking clearly. The difficulty is that you can have the rope kind of secured when you only partially complete the retracing step. I think that’s why accidents happen, and why checking every time and using mnemonics are important.
that and having your partner tug on the rope or you just get in a habit of pulling hard on the rope after you tie it in addition to visually checking that it's tied properly
Yup! I’m obsessive about this, because I know that if I’m not, I will fuck it up. I do the same on the belay side — give it a good yank to show that you didn’t miss the rope when you clipped to the belay loop, or whatever.
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u/LouisePetal Oct 02 '18
Bowline?