Best way to anchor off a tree with rope in guide mode

Check if the tree is sappy before using the rope. I ruined the end of a perfectly good rope this way. 

Damn, I didn't realize knot geeks have such contentious issue with naming that knot rgold showed in orange. Searching the internet though, it looks like there isn't really agreement on what to call it

GDN  (Gosh Dar'n Knot)

chris p wrote:

Damn, I didn't realize knot geeks have such contentious issue with naming that knot rgold showed in orange. Searching the internet though, it looks like there isn't really agreement on what to call it

As far as I'm concerned, if it has a number in Ashley's Book of Knots, it has an official name, regardless of whether the majority of people know what that name actually is.

Andrew Krajnik wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, if it has a number in Ashley's Book of Knots, it has an official name, regardless of whether the majority of people know what that name actually is.

That's a fair perspective, but it doesn't look like that knot does have a number as far as I can tell. There isn't one for it in the picture above, nobody has mentioned one for it, and I can't find one for it on the internet. 

chris p wrote:

That's a fair perspective, but it doesn't look like that knot does have a number as far as I can tell. There isn't one for it in the picture above, nobody has mentioned one for it, and I can't find one for it on the internet. 

Fair enough. I was too busy scrutinizing the differences in the knots (the true bowline with a bight was previously unfamiliar to me), and I failed to notice that the triple bowline doesn't have a corresponding number.