Hi, I'm JB with the Weekly Mountain Taps NUM Tricks. So I'm here in Salt Lake City and we've got the outdoor retailer show going on. It's dumping snow outside but we can't go outside and shoot this video because the avalanche has it somewhere between high and extreme right now. So on days like today we like to bring the video inside and get back to the basics. It's a good opportunity to talk about the simple things. So today I want to talk a little bit about the figure eight knot. It's used for anchor building, it's used for tying into the rope to your harness, ice climbing mountaineering, whole nine yards. It's a great knot. It's probably the most important knot to know. So here we got our rope. And it's a pretty simple thing. We get us a nice long section and this is going to be our lead strand and our follow strand. We're going to start by crossing the lead strand behind and then in front of our follow strand. And then we take the lead here and bring it up through the loop we made. You know you've tied it right when the knot itself looks like the number eight. Alright from here if we want to tie it straight into our harness what we basically do is take our lead strand. We go through the hard points on our harness, knot the blade loop, go through both of them and then simply follow the knot back around. Making sure that it's tight and snug and that there's no loose strands anywhere to be had. And that's how we tie it. Let's take a look at that slow motion and let's just look at the basic figure it. So hopefully that helps you out. Hopefully that gives you a little bit of information that helps you be safe from the knots. If you have any questions, shoot me a line at JB at SWSmtns.com. Hopefully we'll see you out in the mountains. Thanks.