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I finally saw the butterfly in an alpine butterfly

So to get back in climbing shape I have been drilling on my rope work – including my knots. For some reason one knot in particular, the alpine butterfly, has always given me trouble. It is not actually that hard a knot to tie – just for some reason it is my knot nemesis. If I am going to have to re-tie a knots its going to be a butterfly.

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The one thing I never got about it was its name. Then the other day I looked down at the practice knot I had just tied and got it. The knot looks like an upside down butterfly with two little wings formed by loops, and the third loop forming a sort of abdomen. Full head slap moment, I can’t believe I never saw this before.

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