Want to learn how to tie a knot? Survival expert Jim Baird teaches you how to tie the best and most useful knots for the outdoors.

There are some things every adventure seeker should know and if you are a backpacker, these knots should be part of your everyday knowledge.

(Many knots are combinations of hitches.) A taut line hitch creates an adjustable knot that can be lengthened or shortened as needed.

There are a number of ways to tie a trucker's hitch, with the primary difference being the method of forming the loop, or eye, that acts as a pulley for the cinching action of the knot.

A custom creation Jackson has been perfecting. It shares the characteristics of a damselfly and dragonfly larva. “It looks ...

Need a Knot To Secure a Load? Try My Modified Trucker’s Hitch. I came up with this easy knot over years of tying down equipment and materials in the bed of my pickup.

A Hitch in nuptial knotThe passenger gives the businessman the dark idea that sends “Married Life” — Ira Sachs’ wry, mildly wicked drama starring the enviably good quartet of Chris Cooper ...

These are the 11 knots all outdoorsmen and women need to know. Knowing how to tie a knot has long been one of the most important skills in the outdoors that the inexperienced takes for granted ...