If you're interested in sleeping in a hammock, whether high in a big tree or at ground level between a couple of saplings, then I recommend taking a serious look at the Speer Hammock. http://www.speerhammocks.com/ It's a serious hammock for serious hammock campers.
The Speer is far more...
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After a suggestion from someone here I took the Gri Gri out of the anchor system in my SRT and put a four bar rack in. This is a good place to use the rack.
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Tom,
Two questions.
First, what type of rappel (braking) rack do you use or recommend? There are a several...
If someone does something inherently dangerous, like climbing a big tree or driving a car, reasonably relying (in the eyes of a judge or jury) on the adequacy of your professional teaching services to have given them what they needed to keep them safe, and they get hurt or hurt someone else...
A few weeks ago we had a widespread power outage for most of a day in the Springfield, Illinois area. The cause? A part-time (and obviously uncertified) tree worker who climbed an aluminum ladder into a tree and dropped a limb on power lines. Transformers blew all down the line. Witnesses...
You raise some important questions.
I am an attorney, certified tree worker, and co-owner of Treetop Adventures, which my certified arborist partner and I operate as a side business. We provide introductory tree climbing activities for groups of beginners (we do all the set-up and tie all the...