Bowline Knot for Climbing | Best Knot for Natural Tree Anchors

Thank you for showing the quick method! Oh my gosh, my mind finds that SOOO much easier to remember!!!

Worst iinstructions ever , you can't even see what you are doing 👎

Great video! I took my SPI course and am prepping for the exam. For the Middle Bowline, my instructor had us back the knot up with a carabiner, but I cannot remember which strand to clip the bight to. Do you happen to know? Also, is it preferable to back up the Middle Bowline with a carabiner or the overhand on a bight? Thank you SO much for your content. I cannot tell you how much it has helped!

Is there a way to use bowline knot when you're on lead? Or is it best to just wrap the natural anchor and then tie a figure 8 on a bight?

Why do you need to add an overhand knot?

Thank you for the video. Very useful to see also a different way to tie it and how to check it. I personally like to use it as it is much easier to untie than the figure 8 so it comes in handy for tying myself to the rope when projecting a hard sport route where I’m expected to fall a lot but I never knew how to show my belayer how to check it properly 👍

Awesome, thanks, I set up a top rope from a tree at the weekend for checking out the moves on a high-ball boulder and used a re-threaded figure of eight, which ended up being quite hard to untie. I wanted to use a bowline but couldn't quite remember how to tie it off so thanks very much, really useful! I also think of a bowline as 'the rabbit come out of the hole, round the back of the tree and back down the rabbit hole'.