After tying our swiss seats, we had to lay the ropes out. It should look like a "M," with the bight of the rope in the middle. A bight in the rope is the loop that forms when you pick up the rope. The left loose end of the hundred and twenty foot rope will be used to tie a bowline and hooked into the carabiner of the first person. A bowline in a securing knot and a carabiner is a anchor clip The first person will cross the river with the rope hooked into his/her's carabiner in their austrialian seat, which is a square knot and two half hitches around their waist. That person will run around a suitable tree twice and secure the rope with a securing knot and a bowline with a half hitch. While the first person is doing that, the other team members are putting a wireman's knot into the bight of the rope. The finished wireman's knot has three loops into which three carabiners go into. Then, the third carabiner is going to hook into the rope around the tree. The excess rope will be held by the rest of the team. When the first person secures the first half of the rope-bridge across the river that person will give the command, "Pull!" Upon this command the rest of the team is going to pull out the slack. When all the slack is pulled out of the rope, the person closest to the tree will pin the rope to the tree. Then the rest of the team members are going to bunch the rope up starting from the end and working their way to the tree, while running around the tree twice. Then, the the team will tie their securing knot to the tree. Once the rope-bridge is secure, the last person kneels on the ground so that everyone else can step up on his back to clip into the rope and cross the bridge. When everyone has gone across, the first and the last person break down the bridge, and take all of the carabiners and knots out. The team will lay the rope back out the way they set it up to begin with. Then they will tie the ropes up and call it a day.
