2014 Picture of the Year

[kstreehuggerco]

Not really impressive pics from a climbers stand point but this was the bridge I built over the Big Thompson river after the epic floods. I dropped two skinned up spruce trees across the river, snugged the logs up with a come along and then salvaged decking boards from the mess that was once Glen Haven Colorado. The next day we were able to get horses and 4 wheelers across to help in the Search and Rescue effort.

 

[Treetopflyer]

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Not really impressive pics from a climbers stand point but this was the bridge I built over the Big Thompson river after the epic floods. I dropped two skinned up spruce trees across the river, snugged the logs up with a come along and then salvaged decking boards from the mess that was once Glen Haven Colorado. The next day we were able to get horses and 4 wheelers across to help in the Search and Rescue effort.

Rocky mountain ingenuity ! Good work !

 

[kstreehuggerco]

I couldnt find any pics of our tyrolean traverses. The dude standing next to me is Vern Miller. He is one of the head alpine rescue guys in Rocky Mountain National Park and a local paramedic. We worked pretty well together and he is now a huge fan of using arborist techniques in search and rescue. When I showed him a simple z-rig using pulleys and simple friction hitches it blew his mind.

 

[Worthaug]

Rec climb shot from the Coleman Boundry, NC.

Nice shot of the National Champion Eastern Hemlock, 68" DBH, 167' tall. We applied an aerial treatment (pump sprayer) of the upper canopy with Safari.

 

[Worthaug]

Oh, and that Black Birch to the right was found to be over 450 years old!

 

[Steve Connally]

Calendar as a fundraiser,!

 

[Boomslang]

My girlfriend up her first big tree

 

[adolan]

Nice pics guys. Boomslang those trees have seen a few climbers over the years lol!

 

[August Hunicke]

 

[monkeylove]

Love the eye wear August

 

[MikePowers321]

Kinda cool Silhouette

 

[familytreeman]

I need a helmet cam! Working alone I have no photographer

Here is a piece I rigged down to myself-

 

[theXman]

We don't just kill trees......

 

[RescueMan]

The dude standing next to me is Vern Miller. He is one of the head alpine rescue guys in Rocky Mountain National Park and a local paramedic. We worked pretty well together and he is now a huge fan of using arborist techniques in search and rescue. When I showed him a simple z-rig using pulleys and simple friction hitches it blew his mind.

Rocky Mountain Rescue has been using Z-rigs with pulleys and friction hitches for more than half a century.

 

[Stihlmadd]

sometimes we clean up the bodies....

 

[treevet]

Rocky Mountain Rescue has been using Z-rigs with pulleys and friction hitches for more than half a century.

color me (very) skeptical

 

[treevet]

We don't just kill trees......

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nice radial trenching/mulching/aeriating...but that bench is about to negate all the positives.

 

[theXman]

That's the first thought I had and EVERYONE that sees it.

But then they showed me that the legs are designed with many holes to keep adjusting outward and they jigsaw the table top for airspace when the tree starts touching it.

So..... I said, well, alright then; if you keep doing that you can keep it".

 

[treevet]

very cool

 

[RescueMan]

color me (very) skeptical

Rocky Mountain Rescue is the oldest and most experienced alpine rescue organization in the US. The 3:1 Z-rig is the most-used mechanical advantage system among alpinists and vertical cavers which is the source of most vertical rope rigging technique. The only technique which was unique to tree climbers is DdRT.