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Radium Release Hitch

Radium Release Hitch How To:

The RRH is one of the more complicated ties which combines hitches bights and knots but it is very ingenious and used in multiple rope situations.

Ingredients:
1 3.3 meters of static 8 mm cord
2 locking biners

The Steps
1) tie a figure 8 or overhand on a bight at the end of the 8 mm.
2) Clip that into a locking carabiner with the loop next to the spine.
2) loop through the second carabiner, back through the first, and then up again to the second,
3) Complete with a Münter hitch next to the gate of the second carabiner. The MH should be on the anchor side of the tie.
4) Conduct a standard tie off with a half hitch on a bight around the three strands keeping it snug to the MH.
5) Secure the half hitch with an overhand on a bight wrapping the 3 strands.

Results
A load-releasable 3:1 hitch that you can use between a pulley, passing a knot or untensioning a locked lowering device or locked up prussiks.

Knots To Know

Here is the list of basic knots to know for our technical rescue systems

+ Munter Hitch (extra credit: supermunter,monster munter, doublemunter)
+ Ringbend aka overhand follow through or "water knot" (Dont say that around Clark)
+ Bowline (extra credit: double bowline and interlocking bowlines: used for tieing in to the litter)
+ double fishermans
+ figure 8 (follow through, figure 8 on a bight; inline figure 8)
+ inline figure 8 (alternative for litter tie in)
+ girth hitch
+ clove hitch
+ overhand on a bight
+ prussik hitch
+ radium release hitch (the load releasing hitch we use)

Coils to know
+ Alpine coil
+ Butterfly

Extra Credit
+ alpine butterfly
+ garda hitch