Location of recreational climbers

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I am wondering if there are any recreational climbers close to Tallapoosa county, Al.

If anyone is having a climbing meet close by I might be wanting to come and climb.
 
I'm in the Columbus GA area and though I'm really not a rec climber, I can put you on to some nice areas here. A sunday afternoon climb would be nice sometimes.
 
I would enjoy doing a Sunday afternoon climb. I am spending all of my recreational time now hunting but after hunting season I want to get back on a rope.

Since you don't climb for recreation, I am wondering if you climb as a profession.

I will get back in touch with you in February and maybe we can pick a day to do some climbing.
 
February should be good. the weather should be moderating by then, although you never know. I am an arborist by trainig and education, have been in the Green Industry for over 45 years and as an arborist for 38. I have done less production work over the past 10 years, but still keep my hand in. Have been judging the TCC comps for over 20. I know my way around a canopy. Would enjoy a rec climb with you.
 
You are making my day. I just sent you an e-mail so that you can get in touch with me. If you want a phone no let me know.

I am looking forward to getting some tips from an experienced climber.

I feel like a kid in a candy store. It is going to be tough waiting until February.

I am probably going to make my wife come and take notes so I don't forget anything.
 
I think that treeclimbing.com provides a service of listing the location of their members that are willing to get together to climb.

I am not a member of treeclimbing.com because it looked like they wanted you to sign away your intellectual property. By this I mean it looks like if you are a member and you happen to identify a need and you produce a product to fill the need then that product may belong to treeclimbing.com. This just seemed to me a red flag. I really like Peter and Patty so I just decided to be a looker and to not sign any legal documents.
 
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I am probably going to make my wife come and take notes so I don't forget anything.

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Yea.....what wife wouldn't LOVE to do that......
 
She will just tell me to talk louder. That she is having trouble hearing me while she is shopping at the mall.
 
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She will just tell me to talk louder. That she is having trouble hearing me while she is shopping at the mall.

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I live in NW Atlanta and I would be happy to climb with anybody anytime.I have about 100 acres accessible with various types of trees.
 
Greetings All,

If anybody is in the Baltimore, Maryland area drop me a line. North Harford county to be more specific. Love climbing and have plenty of BIG trees.

Cheers,
CMB
 
Today was the day that I got to climb with Mr oldoakman. It was a great experience for me. If I remember correctly, I got to see the 2nd largest willow oak in Ga.

We drove out to Oxbow Meadows Environmental park to do our climbing. When we get there Eric starts pulling a wheel barrow out of the back of his truck. I started wondering if we were going climbing of if he had suckered me into a work project. He started loading his gear into the wheel barrows and then threw my gear on board also. This eased my mind and got me to thinking that this guy has done this before and knows how to make life easy.

We started walking down a bike/hiking trail for a 1/4 mile or so and Eric asked me how about this tree. Me being the tag along rookie, any tree is going to be fine with me. I think Eric said that this tree was a Douglas Oak (a member of the live oak family). (If I am incorrect please correct me.) This was a wild tree that had not been cleaned up. There was a lower limb that had a cotton rope that had grown into the limb maybe 1" in places.

Since I am a rookie and not wanting to do anything stupid, I asked Eric for a suggestion on where to throw my line. He just said up there in that area should do good. So it takes me a couple of throws to get the line in place. During this time Eric is now about 10 feet up in the tree. Now I start fumbling around getting my rope out and tied onto the pullup line. I get the cambium saver on the rope and start pulling everything up and in place. Only one problem. There is a small limb which is forming a tiny V that wont let my cambium saver slide over my tie in point. I discuss this with Eric and tell him that the only thing that I know to do is to pull everything back down and make another throw. I was not liking this idea because Eric was now 30 feet up and if I started throwing the bag again he might end up being a target. Anyway he just says I'll fix it for you. He climbs on up and just places my cambium saver in a great spot. Now that is some great service.

As I finally start to climb Eric is going for a higher tie in point. I take my time getting on up into the canopy and Eric and I are just chatting and he says here take this lanyard and tie off and I will get your line on up higher. I had never tied off with a lanyard and his lanyard had all kinds of things on it that I had not see before. So he put the lanyard in place and then I got clipped in. I untie my rope from my harness and he takes the rope and tosses it on up higher and hands it back to me and I tie on again. I make it on up another 15 feet or so. I think this was the highest tie in point that I had ever used.

While we were hanging around in the tree Eric was taking his saw and really cleaning the tree up for climbing. As we started down Eric was doing some limb walking and cleaning the tree up. Eric said that the tree needed a little more work but it will be much better for the next climb.

I used a foot loop prusik when I climbed and after we got back on the ground Eric says I am going to bring you out of the stone age and into the 21st century. He gets a foot panten and attaches it to my foot and the rope and then he gets his hitch pulley and gets me all tied in. Then he tells me to climb as he tends the rope. After a 3 or 4 steps up the rope, I stop and say that this makes things easier. He shows me how to clip out of the panten and how to pull the friction hitch to get back down. He then said you can have the panten. I don't hear all that good so I took the hitch pulley in my hand and said this. He said no, I use that all the time when I climb. So now I realize that he is talking about the foot panten. This gift was the icing on the cake. I really like new toys but the toys are so much more special when they come with memories of a great climb.

When we got back to the car Eric tells my wife that he has given me something to practice with and a shopping list for a hitch pulley.

It was just a great day with a light breeze, 65 degrees, sunny, and no bugs. It just does not get any better.

So Eric really made an old rookies day.
 
Thanks for the kind words Jim and Tom. To clarify just a bit, the tree was a hairball and had a bunch of dead interior crown cleaning to make it a comfortable climb. Jim, it is a Darlington Oak. Dr. Coder at UGA considersit a subspecies of Live oak but I don't think there is anything conclusive regarding that statement. Glad you enjoyed the day. I did too, it was great to finally meet you.
 
Reviving this older thread! I am in the Smiths Station Area here in Bama. Would enjoy a rec climb if any one would be interested! @oldoakman @jwp
Pretty green climber but I am learning!!
 
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Southeastern, Ohio climber here. Always up for a climb as long as the drive isn't too long.
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Where about? I'm headed down in a few week (wife's family from pt pleasant WV, just a weekend visit this time) and had one place I was gonna go off to climb but would welcome other places or a climbing buddy.
Hit me up, coming down next in 2 weeks.
 
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I live in NW Atlanta and I would be happy to climb with anybody anytime.I have about 100 acres accessible with various types of trees.
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Now that sounds like a sweet offer! If I was even remotely close to you... I’d be stretching a rope with you in a heart beat
 
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