Tree climbing on the “Remembering I’m an Animal” podcast

[moss]

Recently had a wide-ranging conversation on tree climbing with Boston Globe outdoors reporter Billy Baker and his collaborator Jody Simoes on their podcast “Remembering I’m an Animal”. Good fun all around, TreeBuzz is in the conversation.

-AJ

 

[Tuebor]

Here's the corresponding Boston Globe article:

Climb a tree. Face death. Find yourself?

 

[moss]

Here's the corresponding Boston Globe article:

Climb a tree. Face death. Find yourself?

I put the reporter Billy Baker on a RADS based on the Petzl Rig. Worked great for him. As experienced climbers we can scoff at the RADS and point to the superiority of multicender based rope walking setups. What is forgotten in that critique are all the coordinated moving body parts and well tuned system parts that make the system so quick and efficient. RADS is not great on a “bridge and ring” climbing harness, unless the bridge is choked up very short. RADS needs to attach as low on a harness as possible so the climber can max out altitude gain per climb cycle. Antiquated system by now but feels super stable and is easy to operate for a first-timer.
-AJ

 

[moss]

The Globe staff photographer Jessica Rinaldi (covered a broken water main earlier that morning) climbed on another day with a gang of my tree climbing friends. She climbed the RADS and just killed it, all over the tree, super easy-going, nailed her shots. Every first climb is different per individual, she’s done a lot of rock and was very comfortable on rope.

https://flic.kr/p/2nFkbKZ

 

[Chris Schultz]

I’m about halfway through this podcast, and so far I’ve really been enjoying it.

 

[moss]

Boston Globe staff photographer Jessica Rinaldi made some excellent photographs, this one is good. I was more or less managing/contending with 6 other climbers in a large forest-grown white oak. The opportunities for "rope confusion" were abundant ;-) We managed it well.

 

[moss]

Another good one by Jessica Rinaldi: