Clove Hitch on a Tree Activity

This Activity is meant for Scouts BSA, Webelos scouts.

Required:

25 foot rope
a tree

Notes:

If you have enough trees, you can have all patrols do it at once as a competition. Otherwise, do it as a teamwork exercise.

Instructions:

Patrol ties a clove hitch around a tree without coming within 5 feet of the tree.

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Comments:

Feb 27, 2020 - Mike Rod

Hi this sounds like fun. How does this work? My guess you would need teamwork to complete the task. e.g. scouts will be at key positions around the tree and they would toss the rope to each other and make the knot? if this was a competition, do you use time to select a winner.

Feb 27, 2020 - Scouter Paul

No one needs to throw a rope. If a competition, I'd just say the first to succeed is the winner.

Jun 04, 2021 - LouAnn

Is there a video of this? It sounds familiar

Jun 05, 2021 - Scouter Paul

@LouAnn - I won't post solutions here, but you can send me an email.

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