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Bowlines - who uses what? 30-Apr-2013 At 7:37:30 PM Drake

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John Long's accident was caused by user error, not by a particular knot. He very clearly said so himself in an interview with Rock and Ice, which, conveniently, wasn't quoted by the Outside article, as it didn't fit with the author's thesis.

Pasted below is text from R&I, original here: http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/john-long-accident-details-and-update

'Long says that he ties in with a double bowline, but this time, distracted and tired after a long day of work, he didn't finish the knot. "I made the two bowline loops," he says, "and threaded the rope through my harness, but I didn't bring the rabbit out of the hole and around the tree."

"A lot of people are down on the bowline, but the same thing would have happened with a trace-8. I just wasn't paying attention." '

I say: use whatever knot you like.