An easy and very useful knot for common use in the outdoors is the mooring hitch. It’s more secure than other knots such as the slippery hitch and easier to untie than the typical square knot most of us use.

There is a great animation of the mooring hitch on the Website Net Knots.  

Here is a Youtube video link of the mooring hitch.

Many Pennsylvania residents think the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is only responsible for stocking our rivers, lakes and streams with trout. But the Commission provides us with services and information beyond trout fishing. For example, the Pennsylvania Water Trail Guides are guides of Pennsylvania’s most popular canoeing destinations, and several trails like the West Branch Susquehanna Water Trail are even recommeded by the American Canoe Association.

There are other guides available like the boat access ramp guide, approved trout water guide, baoting laws, safety tips for paddlers, Pennsylvania snakes guides and more.  

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/watertrails/trailindex.htm

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/promo/form/pubs_free.htm