Rec. Climbing

[klimbinfool]

Anybody do much recreational climbing? where have you been and how big where these buggers? what kind of difficulty?

 

[dave_spencer]

Rec rocks!

Dave

 

[klimbinfool]

Hi John, Yes that was a good article.The big fold out of the Henry tree is of Andy Taylor, Jerry Beranek and myself.We had climbed the tree already and where comming out for this pose.Jerry at top , Andy Taylor at left and me at right.I have a tree boat but never thought of using it.

 

[John_Paul_Sanborn]

At least Sophi & Tom got a Newtribe plug

Just too cool.

 

[TreeDr]

.. Do you have a link to that article? I would like to see it. Thanks T-hoe

 

[klimbinfool]

John , yes they did get a plug. I wish the photo was just a little closer, because I use a New Tribe saddle. Would have given them a little advertising. Oh well, I guess the whole tree wouldn't be in there if it was any closer.

Trevor: I'm not sure if there is a link to that article or not. I saw something in the TCI site about it, but you'll have to look for yourself on that one.
Sorry,
Greg

 

[John_Paul_Sanborn]

Smithsonian has a good artical on it, rec climbing and tree camping.

Too bad no one had TreeBoats, only Porta Ledges.

 

[Babberney]

The last two "big" vacations I took were to Yosemite and Sequoia Nat'l Parks. In Yosemite, I climbed into a Giant Sequoia but didn't get to the top because my late start left me 2/3 of the way up at dusk. In Sequoia NP, I climbed with a buddy and got an early start. I made it to the top of a tree we estimated at 265'.

If I make it to the Seattle conference this year, I will be up for a climb in a Coastal Redwood if anyone else is, and assuming someone knows where to find a good one.

Keith

 

[John_Paul_Sanborn]

The article online sans pictures. I sent an email asking if the "Henry" pic is archived online.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/mar02/treeclimbing.html

 

[TreeDr]

I guess I have to buy the magazine. I hope its still available. THANKS for the link. I think I've seen that picture before where the dude's full spread eagle with red lines between two monster Redwoods. Killer picture. Thanks again. Out

 

[klimbinfool]

john , someone turned me on to a site awhile back, that i havnt used yet called , Goggle.com suppose to be nothing but pictures and links. He said that if a picture was put on the net it would be there.

Keith, I can prbably hook you up with someone in the Washington are, and also in California if your seriouse about it.

Greg

 

[John_Paul_Sanborn]

Google is a prety good search site. I tried it for this pic, but no joy.

For info search i use a meta-engine called dogpile that searches like 10 sites for you.

then there is a stand alone on called Copernic that you can refine thesearches and validate all the links, it will prune the dead links from the search list for you. It freewear.

 

[klimbinfool]

thanks John, I'll check it out.

 

[Oxman]

Some kinda surfers you guys are! What ever happened to going down to the library?

Smithsonian Sequoia

Smithsonian Cover

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Don't know that my collection is big enough or organized enough to be called a library.

 

[John_Paul_Sanborn]

Guess I could have scanned the pics and uploaded.

 

[Treepreacher51]

I haven't done a whole lot of recreational tree climbing, but there was this one monkeypuzzle tree and.... Hay Greg, thanks for torning me onto this site.