Free Climbing in your free time

I won't free climb anything over 20'

I'm mildly afraid of heights.

No I'm not joking.

If it wasn't for the rope and saddle, I'd wet my pants more than I already do (can't start the day without two drops of pee in my pants)
 
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I only fell once. Landed flat on my back and knocked the wind out of me...I thought that I was dieing. Crying got my breath back!

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Tom I had the same experience. Fell maybe 8 feet. Blacked out for a couple of seconds I think.
 
I cant help it. sometimes I have to force my self not to jump into appealling trees when I am walking down the street. I swear i might get arrested one of these days.
 
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I only free climb at work... 'cause it's faster than using all those ropes and jingley jangley crap!

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Amen brother! Rec climbing at home is different. It's all about safety then.
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I cant help it. sometimes I have to force my self not to jump into appealling trees when I am walking down the street. I swear i might get arrested one of these days.

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I can relate to this
 
While climbing the tree as opposed to climbing the rope seems to be a skill that helps new climbers become more efficient, learning or practicing while not being tied in is foolish. Will you climb safer because you have exposed yourself to a higher risk? Probably. But how dumb will you feel when you are laying on your back with a broken leg or worse. Imagine how you would explain that to your peers. Or your customers. Or your boss.Will you be able to work again? Or if your dead, what will your wife tell your kids?

There are a lot of things I did as a kid, including climbing fir trees all the way up, that I don't do now. I am sure it is exhilarating still, but why do it? The risk to benefit is just not there for me.
 
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There are a lot of things I did as a kid, including climbing fir trees all the way up, that I don't do now. I am sure it is exhilarating still, but why do it? The risk to benefit is just not there for me.

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Same here--at night we used to climb pines to the top and see how much we could make em sway. I remember suddenly sliding down through branches with a broken treetop in my hands.

Landed okay but I am way too brittle to try that now. The oops factor is a very real thing.
 
There's a bar with a second storey patio with a nice elm close to it. Before we got our first drink I was near the top of the elm. The waitress came out, I ordered a double rum and coke from the tree top and off she went to fill our order. Hats off to the Broadway scene and Lydia's in S'toon. She was well tipped for that.

The cree indians up north taught my brother to climb small aspen in spring till they bent and set them on the ground. He tried that trick in the south and the tree behaved differently, snapped and he broke his leg. Changes in latitude.
 
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