Neat.
I still climb on old Grivel Rambos (heavier but give me a good solid kick) - these do have a monopoint kit (but alas the old green Koflach Hunter double boots gave up long ago).
It's funny thinking about this more, one of the highly tracked climbs every year in the Ghost is called This House of Sky (THOS) - it's a series of short waterfall steps all the way up to the "sky" . . . but most years it has at least some of the ice steps plugged up with logs of various sorts . . . it's been called "This House of Logs" in years past (depending on avalanche debris, etc.). But about using this stuff on trees, well, I kept getting stuck!
Now where's that article on running belays/ dynamic rope for tree work (pine cone collecting?)?
Addenda: After more serious consideration lubricated by single malt, if you fired the APTA into the top of a tree at the top of the ice climb instead of belaying off the tree bottom, then you might have a new type of ice climbing altogether - ice and trees - this might require a re-write of the waterfall ice grading systems - say the climb would now become a WI5 T3 mixed climb. And, 'cuz trees grow, the climbs would get longer every year. Guidebooks would have to be re-written . . . .
