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I suggest that a link to the Ground-line hitch be added. It is considered to be more secure and is just as easy to tie. The only downside, AFAIK, it that it is not not well known. I believe I used to have a link to it in the "related knots" section but it looks like someone removed it. Nascheme 03:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. I added this to the related knots and also expanded the Ground-line hitch and Miller's knot articles. --Dfred 05:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Use in rock climbing

I've removed the mention of the Clove Hitch in rock climbing. John Long's "How to Rock Climb" describes use of the clove hitch to tie the climber to a multi-nut anchor, where some slippage of the knot may be useful to equalize strain on the nuts. But this is a rather specialized use, and even Long recommends using a double figure eight instead in most cases. The previous text which stated that the clove hitch is useful for tying into climbing anchors is incomplete at best and recklessly misleading at worst. -- Oliver Crow (talk) 23:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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	I've removed the mention of the Clove Hitch in rock climbing. John Long's "How to Rock Climb" describes use of the clove hitch to tie a the climber to a multi-nut anchor, where some slippage of the knot may be useful to equalize strain on the nuts. But this is a rather ~~particular~~ use, and even Long recommends using a double figure eight instead in most cases. ~~%%%~~ ~~<small><span~~ ~~class="autosigned">—Preceding~~ ~~[[Wikipedia:Signatures\|unsigned]]~~ ~~comment~~ ~~added~~ by [[User:Oliver Crow\|Oliver Crow]] ([[User talk:Oliver Crow\|talk~~]] • [[Special:Contributions/Oliver Crow\|contribs~~]]) 23:35, 19 April 2010 (UTC)~~</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->~~		I've removed the mention of the Clove Hitch in rock climbing. John Long's "How to Rock Climb" describes use of the clove hitch to tie the climber to a multi-nut anchor, where some slippage of the knot may be useful to equalize strain on the nuts. But this is a rather specialized use, and even Long recommends using a double figure eight instead in most cases. The previous text which stated that the clove hitch is useful for tying into climbing anchors is incomplete at best and recklessly misleading at worst. -- [[User:Oliver Crow\|Oliver Crow]] ([[User talk:Oliver Crow\|talk]]) 23:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)