http://www.canyoneering.us Tue, 10 May 2011 12:38:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.canyoneering.us/alternatives-to-the-stone-knot/ http://www.canyoneering.us/alternatives-to-the-stone-knot/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:21:30 +0000 rcwild http://canyoneering.us/?p=90 The stone knot (AKA stein knot) is used to isolate two strands of rope. It is useful to gain efficiency on short rappels where more time is spent by people rigging and de-rigging their rappel devices than is spent on the actual rappel. Using the stone, while one person is rappelling, another person can be rigging. As soon as the first person is on the ground, the second person can start rappelling and a third person can start rigging.

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