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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Oh wow.... old worn spurs, ragged flipline, rough safety line, battered Civil War losing saddle? He is only missing one piece of gear: https://www.livescience.com/41576-tongue-controlled-wheelchair-paralysis.html. Next time you see him, ask him how that is working out for him. I learned back...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    LOL! That is EXACTLY where that tree is located. How crazy is that? Yea... I know about the dead bodies being dumped there... I'm the one who dumped them there (dudes kept messing with my base anchor while I was climbing). [Note to Big Brother: I"m just kidding here] You said "For example I...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Excellent point. I have yet to climb a lot of leaning trees (as I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how much lean is too much lean). On the couple that I have climbed with a slight lean, I've setup on the downhill side of the lean. At the time I hadn't thought about your point... but doing...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Hi LordFarkward (love the name), Yes. I agree. It is a bit gear intensive. To be clear, when climbing with this setup, I use the following: Primary: SRT on Akimbo with foot ascender and knee ascender Backup: Steel core flipline with 2 Kong Ducks (or CT Roll n Locks) as seen in the video...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Ahhhh.. yes... I was thinking that if the first branch failed, there would be stronger branches below to catch.. but the next branch strong enough may be 25' down (if its a tall canapoy) resulting in nasty jerk (or ground fall if less than 25' off the ground). I'm glad I asked.
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Ahhhh.. yes... I was thinking that if the first branch failed, there would be stronger branches below to catch.. but the next branch strong enough may be 25' down (if its a tall canapoy) resulting in nasty jerk (or ground fall if less than 25' off the ground). I'm glad I asked.
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    YES! This is what I have been thinking about lately. I too had come to the conclusion that trying to "hug the tree" would result in a near free fall to the bottom. I agree that the key to getting it to work is to focus on the "out" as you have mentioned. Since I never use spikes, the next...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Evo, Thank you for your response. Sorry for being dense.. but when you say "nab 3-4 limbs for the PSP" does that mean having to rope hanging over 3-4 limbs simultaneously (or have 2-3 limbs below the one you are looped over)? Also, what do you think about shooting a long throw line...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Thanks! It mostly stems from a distrust in small limbs being utilized as a life supporting anchor.
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    BTW... Here is a photo of one of the trees I want to climb. Its about 1.5 ft in diameter at its base and appears to be a little taller than 100 ft. I noticed that the top moves around a good bit in strong winds. If you zoom in on the canopy, you can see that the limbs are quite small. I'm...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    I'm 180 lbs. I often climb with 20-25 lbs of gear. So 205 lb.
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    Hi AJ, Thank you soooo much for this level of detail! If I may ask a few more: As I mentioned before, I'm a self-taught overly-cautious recreational climber. White Pines are my trees of choice and the best trees in my area (I live in Boston MA). I mostly climb SRT (Akimbo, foot ascender...
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    How Small a Diameter is Safe to Climb High (Conifier)

    I am a relatively new recreational climber. Most of the very tall trees in my area are conifers (Northern White Pines.. I think). Some of the best ones, with the best views, are about 1 ft in diameter (3.1 ft in circumference at base) and look to be just over 100' tall. Most of them are...
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    Can anyone Identify this Climbing Technique?

    Oh wow... that is brilliant! I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of that. Thanks so much for posting!
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    Can anyone Identify this Climbing Technique?

    What would you recommend. I can both DRT (Petzl RAD) and SRT (Rope Walker).. but what I want to climb... I simply don't trust that I can get a solid anchor. This approaches does not require that I trust any anchor. While tedius... it looks very safe. Disagree?
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