In this digital world it’s so easy to ask Google, Siri, or Alexa, “What’s the temperature outside? The Bear adventure, Bear Necessities, has us learning how to read a thermometer.

The two half-hitches is a type of knot, specifically a binding knot or hitch knot. It consists of an overhand knot tied around a post, followed by a half-hitch. Equivalently, it consists of a half-turn around a post followed by a clove hitch of the running end around the standing part.