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Re: National Geographic\'s Redwood Trees Issues
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Thank you, Mario. You scoured through the nooks and crannies of the Tree Story CD rom, and presented many of the truths contained within the stories. I really appreciate it.
It just gets me riled up every time I see this small group of elites ignoring the facts in the stories they publish. Some of which used my photographs and findings to nominate a prior champion without any mention of who steered them to the tree.
And that's just one bone of many I have to pick with the academy. I contacted NG in the early 80s offering a collection of photographs and stories of my exploits in the old growth canopy describing the use of line guns and single line techniques to enter it.
And all I've ever read that's been published about the subject comes from a very small group of people who just been doing it in the last 10 or so years.
I never started climbing the old growth redwoods to make a claim of being the first. It was their sheer size an height that inspired me to find the ways to do it. Though rough and old school at first, I admit, I did refine my methods to those that are in popular use today, in the early 80's.
And today anybody outside the circle of elites found climbing the trees is shunned. And all that does is broaden the gap between so called pioneering research and the real facts of how it began. This image was from a climb in 1971
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Very interesting read Jerry.
That is a great picture, really captures the scale of what you were doing. Did you climb with Jomoco? he started in 73 and I'm pretty sure he was in your area, he invented the leather cambium saver dont you know!
Didnt National Geographic do the BIG TREE thing about 12 years ago, I seem to remember seeing a pic of a guy traversing via two TIPs right in between two giant Douglas Firs?
Anyone got that pic?
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Thank you, Mario. You scoured through the nooks and crannies of the Tree Story CD rom, and presented many of the truths contained within the stories. I really appreciate it.
It just gets me riled up every time I see this small group of elites ignoring the facts in the stories they publish. Some of which used my photographs and findings to nominate a prior champion without any mention of who steered them to the tree.
And that's just one bone of many I have to pick with the academy. I contacted NG in the early 80s offering a collection of photographs and stories of my exploits in the old growth canopy describing the use of line guns and single line techniques to enter it.
And all I've ever read that's been published about the subject comes from a very small group of people who just been doing it in the last 10 or so years.
I never started climbing the old growth redwoods to make a claim of being the first. It was their sheer size an height that inspired me to find the ways to do it. Though rough and old school at first, I admit, I did refine my methods to those that are in popular use today, in the early 80's.
And today anybody outside the circle of elites found climbing the trees is shunned. And all that does is broaden the gap between so called pioneering research and the real facts of how it began. This image was from a climb in 1971
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Very interesting read Jerry.
That is a great picture, really captures the scale of what you were doing. Did you climb with Jomoco? he started in 73 and I'm pretty sure he was in your area, he invented the leather cambium saver dont you know!
Didnt National Geographic do the BIG TREE thing about 12 years ago, I seem to remember seeing a pic of a guy traversing via two TIPs right in between two giant Douglas Firs?
Anyone got that pic?
