I love this knot because it has so many possible uses and was fun to play around with when I was first learning to use it. The first use that I've used it for is to ascend a rope into the tree in my front yard and is most common reason to use it, in my opinion at least. While climbing Spire 2 a member of my party used it on the tail end of the rope below his ATC when we were rappelling from the summit; a cool way to make an auto locking rappel if anything were to go wrong.
I've used it to have a loop to hang bags or a bottle from on a rope so that I didn't have to hold it. Really this knot or, if you want to be technical, hitch is a must know for emergency situations and can just be fun if you don't have money to buy ascenders.
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