The Getaway Knot

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If you want to help your guide out, be confident enough to tie up your own mount. It doesn't sound like much until there's a game animal getting away and your guide has to deal with his horse, your horse, and whoever else's horse while you're all standing around. Learn a good hitch knot like the old getaway knot.

1. Start at chest level so the horse can't get a leg over the rope, and tie the horse with no more than 2 feet of rope slack between the halter and the tree.
2. Pass the rope around the tree on the right side (or over a rail).
3. Bring the tag end of the rope around and form a loop by passing the rope over itself, and lay the loop over the standing part of the rope.
4. Reach through the loop on the outside of the standing part, and pull another loop of the working end through.
5. Snug the knot up to the tree.
6. To release it, all you have to do is pull on the tag end and go.