How to Tie Alpine Butterfly Loop | Most Versatile Knot
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The Alpine Butterfly Loop knot was taught to me by a guide many years ago and is my go-to knot for a loop that's in the middle of a line or rope. It is sometimes referred to as the "Butterfly Knot" or "Alpine Loop", but whatever you call it, this versatile loop is one of the best knots to know.
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"a little bit like something else"
O.O
I cant unsee it now!
This has always been my favorite knot too!
Tie this knot for a special someone
I got stuck in a water tank yesterday and couldn’t get out. I watched this video whilst inside to make a loop on a rope that was lowered down that ultimately got me down. Thank you!!!
Nice! Glad you got out okay and you had reception in the tank
Wonder if it wad a concrete or fibreglass tank . Otherwise surprisingly theres reception through thin gauge metal up to a certain gauge and band r a nge figures too .
Life saving loop! Amazing that in such a dire situation person decided to see a you tube video of knots that ultimately saved his life..... Me practicing this knot until I memorize it. LOL.
@@michaelcorbidge7914 it was probably a plastic reservoir I got stuck in one before too… you don’t realize how tall they are until you are in them
I,m so glad you saw the butterfly as something else because so did I LOL
heheh
🍆 LOL 😆
Funny
Yup. It's either a penis or a tongue, and nobody is going to call this an Alpine Penis-Tongue loop. Butterfly it is.
The Schlong Loop! Awesome 👏
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came looking for this.... comments sections rarely disappoint thnx to people like you :p
@@innerbarkoutdoorsSomething was up, I don't think it was thumbs.
The “frank and beans” knot.
I had forgotten all about this knot. Years of navy and having to learn soooo many knots and now just using 3 or 4 a person gets forgetful. Esp in retirement, LOL. Thanks a bunch my friend.
Nobody puts baby in the corner. This one is one of my favorites!
I've watched a few videos on this knot and this is the easiest and simplest for me to understand. Great work mate.
Thanks!
Here is the most visual and viewable Alpine Butterfly Knot, but too complicated for alpine or climbing use. The hand twist method with a short-cut is the fastest and easiest for me to tie while suspended on the rope under all conditions: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
@@innerbarkoutdoors Constructive criticism: lose the background noise!
The subject & your narration of it is great. The addition of distracting, monotonous & annoying music ruined the vid for me.
I think you have the best knot videos on UA-cam… I watched the truckers hitch one and always for get that knot for some reason I usually do some butchered version of it
You really just need a top loop to help you as a pulley block. There's a bunch of ways to get you here
This is the best way to tie the alpine butterfly! So easy to remember
You are an excellent teacher
Haha the visual aid for isolating a damaged portion of rope is great
Haha glad you liked it
I love knots
I love lamp
@@innerbarkoutdoors I love lamp
I liked the relaxed pace and soothing music. Subscribed
Thanks for the sub
Just used this to tie down a chrisrmas tree on my subaru! Thanks mate.
Glad I could help
That's my go to for any loop. I use it camping and securing loads. Won't slip and easy to undo, even in small diameter cord.
It's a great loop! I use it all the time.
Excellent paced instruction. Thanks
Here is the most visual and viewable Alpine Butterfly Knot, but too complicated for alpine or climbing use. The hand twist method with a short-cut is the fastest and easiest for me to tie while suspended on the rope under all conditions: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
Awesome video. Love the simplification ❤
Thanks!
Enjoyed it! Cheers, Mate.
Thanks Jack!! *thumbs up*
This is cool. I will use this for work. I have to do rigging and this is better than my current teachings.
Thanks Leland - make sure to subscribe, we got more knots coming!
Excellent, clear and thoughtfully done👍👍. Well done 👏👏👏
Thank you Johnny, glad you liked it!
@@innerbarkoutdoors yes sir, never been in the Navy, don't recall this knot from boy scouts, but this is the knot I've been looking for after many years of fooling with loop knots impossible to untie. Very simple -- will come in very handy next time I need a loop knot, maybe tomorrow. Thanks.
Haha. I teach this knot in my adventure class and the students are always like…..Ms Thompson…this is NOT a butterfly. ;). I like your method. A little easier for them to understand.
Always like your example and how to do it.
Thank you
Thank you so much for this, I've watched so many videos trying to find a way that I will remember to do this knot and I've finally found it!!
Even the wrap around the hand method didn't stick with me which is apparently the easiest way.
Obviously the one you can remember is ultimately the best. But the advantage of the handwrap comes in tying it with cold fingers or heavy gloves.
I think the easiest and fastest method is the one step like the bowline: Backhand the rope with your left hand (thumb down), and at the same time palm a bight into your left hand (with the right hand). Finally in one motion, twist your left hand (palm facing right) forming the “X” and at the same time putting the bight into the hole.
That's a great one to know. Thanks
No problem :)
Nice work!
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“I’m told that it’s got it’s name from a butterfly but...... it think it looks like something else.” I had to look at it again. Now I know what you think it looks like and now both have the same vision. 😂
;) hahah
What is it guys?
Awesome...I'd like to see more of your preferred knots for tying off from rappel anchor points and tying into a harness
Thanks! That's a great idea, I'll keep it in the hopper.
Solid knot to shorten modern dog leashes made of climbing rope. Adds an extra handle or loop to tie doggie bags, treat bag, water, etc. Plus taking some length off will help manage strong dogs that generate too much momentum if you give them a full 6ft "head start" on you.
Great for use with pulleys and work with mechanical advantage. Totally looks like a rabbit ear to me. Alpine Butterfly sounds cooler than rabbit ear knot.
This knot is so useful because unlike the bowline you do not need either free end to tie it.
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Bowling on a bight
There are 2 different ways to tie the bowline in the bight...
Bowline in a bite is far superior in my opinion
Awesome...I'd love to see your preferred knot and system for a tie off point, for a single rope rappel
Thanks! - make sure to subscribe, we got more knots coming, thats a great video idea
@@innerbarkoutdoors I've been subscribed for years brother. Your channel inspired me to make my own as well...Way back when you use to do blade show streams with a couple other youtubers from the hotel room... Your channel is responsible for my knife buying habit lol.
@@50StichesSteel For some reason youtube told me you we not - my bad friend! Thanks for the long lasting support, much much appreciated!
@@innerbarkoutdoors No worries, I understand how UA-cam rolls lol, take care
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Earned my thumbs up. We're all professionals, but we are also human 🤙
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Wish I had this in my camping years !
Excuse to go camping now.
Easiest explanation out there
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The best visual: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
Im convinced that inspiration for these knots comes from unravelling long garden hoses that have been dragged all over . Some say it's their earbuds but i say it's garden hoses .
Definitely extension cords and Christmas lights
my girlfriend appreciates this video
Good…
If I'm rappelling while rock climbing and notice a cut in my rope, I could tie this knot. However, as I lower, wouldn't it just get stuck at the anchor system? Would there be something better to use? New to this.
Not an expert, but if I tied this around a damaged section of rope and had to rappel over it, I could put my weight on a prusik and re-attach my descender below the knot. I’m curious now, I’ll look it up...
Detailed guide here: www.vdiffclimbing.com/abseil-past-knot/
This
You're right, it looks like something else
Thank you for the tutorial. I have a question regarding my school work. The question asks which knot is best to tie in the middle of a line: a figure 8 or a running bowline? Any input & education from you would be greatly appreciated!
I would like to see some alternate ways to tie it, but I appreciate that it was not excessively prescriptive. Understanding a knot involves more descriptive instruction imo because so many are not just limited to one method of tying with only one size of cordage. I use a variety of different sizes but they are rarely the long hefty and very heavy climber type ropes. I am much more of a bushcrafter and backpacker, so versatility and utility are key things I go for.
Example: How would you tie something (a link of a chain for example) into the loop?
Thanks
Welcome
Cheers Mate!
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awesome and funny
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Very cool
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Why would you use the alpine butterfly for core shots? It can slip pretty easily right? would you put a carabiner in it?
The bite of 87, the loop of 93
You lost me.
The C&B knot
Would this bare load? Like foothold or handhold?
Can you tie the double butterfly with this technique?
It looks like a butterfly with a large something else!
Hehehe
Is this a dropper loop on fishing line?
Sketchy knot for tying into a harness
It's not made for that, so that makes sense
@@innerbarkoutdoors Well that’s what you said at the beginning of the video…. I’m a rock climber. I have never heard of anyone using one to tie into a harness
For bypassing a damaged piece of rope as shown.
@@innerbarkoutdoors In the beginning of the video you say “ It’s used in many applications such as tying into a harness…” Are you not aware of what you are saying in your own video? That’s literally why I commented in the first place. I was going to say how reckless it is even suggesting you could tie into a harness using that knot. But I didn’t want to be dramatic. Are you one of those people that can’t admit they made a mistake no matter what? Watch your own video. It’s very clear what you said
@@innerbarkoutdoors I just don’t know why you had to be so dismissive and arrogant. Just so you know basically the only knot used for tying into a harness is a figure 8. You can use a bowline or a double bowline but no one really does.
+1 for stating the obvious. It doesn't look like a butterfly, it looks like something else.
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Is there any knot name which can be used to tie two ropes together to climb and when the climbing is done the knot could be easily untied from the ground?
I know this one and can do it easily with thin line but today trying to do it with stiff 10mm nylon rope just couldn't quite remember what I was doing
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Here's a simple visual: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
I'd like to know on top of everything: how easy is it to undo...?
Make more videos on knots.
Coming right up! Stay tuned
i think it looks something else too
Hundy p.
Hi. Can this knot be safely used to serve like a step/ foot holder for something like a single strand rope ladder?
Sure can
@@innerbarkoutdoors Thanks! Stay safe...🥰🙏
Buy an etrier or make DIY one with mil-spec tubular nylon: ua-cam.com/video/o8AgDrstSbY/v-deo.html
How do I tie a knot in the middle of the rope and connect it to a fixed object?
Not the easiest or vest way to tie this but clearly done
Glad you think it’s clear
At first, I saw it as something else - a trefoil. Let's just say, I'll never see it that way again.
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That's what I thought it looks like too. we must be adults
Yay adulting
@@innerbarkoutdoors hoorays. not an easy thing to do, but we do it because we love it.
What does it look like 😅😅😅😊
😆
Something else 😂😂😂
Great video, but you don’t show how you tighten the first end and how to remove at the end
What is other name of 🦋 loop
What's it look like?
It does look like a butterfly, just not at the end.
;)
We all know what it really looks like 😉😂
Ok
What else does it look like? 🤔
Hehe
I’m trying to do this on my lanyard it’s hard but I’ll keep trying it’s too long omg
Shoelaces 🤘
Try this: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
What is the most secure loop knot you know of when I want to put weight onto both ends instead of just the loop like it was only a rope without any loop attached?
Alpine Butterfly Loop vs Dropper Loop? Or something else?
awesomely concise, no BS… great video. Looks like a peen instead of a butterfly
Can’t do it mine dosent turn out I twist twice but that’s as far as it goes can only find one genuine loop that’s on the first bite it’s impossible ok for you pros thou !!!!!😮
This is the most difficult way to tie this knot.
But it gets it done.
The easiest and FASTEST way is: Backhand the rope with your left hand (thumb down), and at the same time palm a bight into your left hand (with the right hand). Finally in one motion, twist your left hand (palm facing right) forming the “X” and at the same time putting the bight into the hole.
"Something else"....
Suspicious looking
Libbiddy Bibbiddy
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Looks like “long duk dong” - now, name the movie that phrase came from?
16 candles, never challenge my asianness again.
Dong! Grandpa is speaking to you!
Yeah definitely sth else… oh maybe a butterfly looks like the else too
It looks like the "F U Knot" or the middle finger know, lol
Short and sweet video, thanks
Haha, kinda does doesn't it.
Looks like something else, what ?
We used to call it the alpine dong
I mean...you aren't wrong
That there is a tally whacker. It's not clear to me how this is better than grabbing an amount of folded over line in your hand in the middel of a rope, and tying a two stranded half clove hitch (aka overhand knot). I did a test where I pulled both knots on the bitter ends as hard as I could, and they seem just as reliable, and equally difficult to untie. But the double stranded half clove is dramatically faster to tie.
Since this is a climbing knot, you won't see a difference in performance until you shock load it with human weight.
This is not the best way in my opinion. Ropes can be finicky and trying to double twist is just not a good method at all for making two loops. You can simply just start with a loop, rotate once to get the two loops. Much easier than this. This fails so bad if your rope isn't perfect. The butterfly knot does not require perfect rope which is why I say this is not a good method at all. The best in my opinion is doing 3 wraps around something, take furthest right put it in center. Take furthest right again and bring to front(all the way left) and tuck it through the loops and pull...finished.
Weirdest way ever
Easiest and Fastest method: Backhand the rope with your left hand (thumb down), and at the same time palm a bight into your left hand (with the right hand). Finally in one motion, twist your left hand (palm facing right) forming the “X” and at the same time putting the bight into the hole.
Ahah we all know it looks like something else.
It looks knotty
🤣
What does it look like, tell me 🤔🤣
I don't wanna say it🍆
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Mind outta the gutter...
Heheh
Thanks, but you really could have made that a 30 second video by just showing how to tie the knot. I'm guessing that most people seeking out this knot specifically know the uses of it, and just need a refresher on throwing like I did.
Actually I get more comments on asking me to SHOW how the knot is used. Thats why I try and incorporate it in there :)
@@innerbarkoutdoors At least to me, someone who is just learning, it's much better when you take your time tying the knot.
Now me and my boys can laugh about the wiener knot.
🤘
I have be given an home work how to tie 🦋 loop I don't how to tie can you teach me ,anybody
Play in slow motion
I call it the “Schlong Knot”. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
I just threw up a little
That was kinda difficult to do… there’s an easier way to do this knot and this isn’t it.
The easier way: View from 1:20 ua-cam.com/video/OXbEDmNYAXQ/v-deo.html
@@AMC-eq3jr correct. So much easier than the OP video.
Easiest and Fastest method: Backhand the rope with your left hand (thumb down), and at the same time palm a bight into your left hand (with the right hand). Finally in one motion, twist your left hand (palm facing right) forming the “X” and at the same time putting the bight into the hole.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
What ever do you mean?