- Location
- healdsburg, CA
Went on a Climb with Gerry B yesterday at a tree he calls the Big River tree. Had to boat out to it up the river a ways.
Man what a big tree. Gerry can really pick them.
I lead up the tree and we used my Big Shot to set the first ascent line.
I have a Jameson foam filled pole 6' w/ a 3' foam filled shorter section that I snap on to the end. That makes the whole thing pretty long.The foam filled are fairly stiff. When fully loaded the whole thing does'nt bend all that much. At the end I have a Mini-Traxion. I use a quick snap attached to the bag of the sling shot w/ a 3/8" line going from the q.s. through the m.t. We pulled the bag almost all the way down the 6' pole, used one of those Fresco 8 oz. bag (the italian ones I forget the name) and 2.2 mil. sampson zing it line. With the sling shot bag pulled almost all the way to the end of the 6' pole, and holding the big shot like you would a rifle I fired the bag up into the tree.
I could only get about 90' maybe 100' or so up. Not quite enough to get the choice branch I was aiming for. But I got a lower branch and so was able to get into the tree.
This set up IS GREAT!
with a little tweaking, like maybe using the smaller zing-it (but not a lighter bag) this may be a real usefull set up for setting lines higher in big trees. I dont like much using mono-fil. lines cause they make my head hurt trying to untangle them. This system uses easy to use throw line, easy to pack in and out of tree sites (with the shorter pole section in the back pack and the longer one used like a walking stick makes a low profile park ranger stealthy set-up) and gets up into the higher limbs of those big trees that are really a blast to climb.
Thanks for the climb Ger.
Frans
Man what a big tree. Gerry can really pick them.
I lead up the tree and we used my Big Shot to set the first ascent line.
I have a Jameson foam filled pole 6' w/ a 3' foam filled shorter section that I snap on to the end. That makes the whole thing pretty long.The foam filled are fairly stiff. When fully loaded the whole thing does'nt bend all that much. At the end I have a Mini-Traxion. I use a quick snap attached to the bag of the sling shot w/ a 3/8" line going from the q.s. through the m.t. We pulled the bag almost all the way down the 6' pole, used one of those Fresco 8 oz. bag (the italian ones I forget the name) and 2.2 mil. sampson zing it line. With the sling shot bag pulled almost all the way to the end of the 6' pole, and holding the big shot like you would a rifle I fired the bag up into the tree.
I could only get about 90' maybe 100' or so up. Not quite enough to get the choice branch I was aiming for. But I got a lower branch and so was able to get into the tree.
This set up IS GREAT!
with a little tweaking, like maybe using the smaller zing-it (but not a lighter bag) this may be a real usefull set up for setting lines higher in big trees. I dont like much using mono-fil. lines cause they make my head hurt trying to untangle them. This system uses easy to use throw line, easy to pack in and out of tree sites (with the shorter pole section in the back pack and the longer one used like a walking stick makes a low profile park ranger stealthy set-up) and gets up into the higher limbs of those big trees that are really a blast to climb.
Thanks for the climb Ger.
Frans
