Why do you love tree climbing?

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Did you post this question in the rec climb thread? There are quite a few people there that do this as you do. Why not try cimbing a canopy, moving from one end of a grove or forest stand to the other without landing on the ground. Now that would be a challenge.

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Haha, actually I thought I did post this in the rec area until I went there to find this thread and couldn't.

And I totally forgot about climbing between trees. I was rather jazzed about the idea before I actually started tree climbing, but then I saw the trailer for "Treeverse" and realized that two awesome tree climbers didn't even travel one mile in five days! It is still really cool but I never considered the fact that it would go so slowly! I am guessing they could have traveled wayyyy lighter and thus way faster.

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Both allow me to be off the ground and to push myself both mentally and physically. However, one costs me money, and one makes me money.

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Danget I need to start working for a tree company, haha.
 
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Why not try cimbing a canopy, moving from one end of a grove or forest stand to the other without landing on the ground. Now that would be a challenge.


TREE VERSE

I visited the farm where this video was made.

It is also the place Tim Kovar conducts classes for people from around the world. I baffles me to learn just how many people like to climb trees and I want to meet each and every one.

For me a solo climb to lounge aloft transforms my mind, soul and body. Throw in a close companion to share with is even better.

These guys in the TREEVERSE also rigged a dual rope elevator system that I was haul up along a tall fir. Of course I had to go most of the way inverted. Seeing the ground fall away as I was lifted up felt like God reached down and grab me by my ankles to take me home.
 
You can always do recreational tree climbing in your rock harness with your dynamic rope if your just in it for the fun and not doing any cutting. I do this quite often when were out at some local spots but its mostly rope ascension to the top, check the view then rappell back down. I've always thought it would be sweet to lead climb say a huge cottonwood with really furrowed bark setting choking slings for clip ins as I went but havent got around to that yet.
 
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The puzzle of it all. Planning routes, rigging points, tie ins, srt or ddrt, fighting to the end of a limb to make a cut, polesaws are the devil.

You ever climb a rock face, get back down, look back and say "wow, that looks 1000 times better now that I've climbed and pruned it."?

I have, with a tree!

Plus chick's dig it.

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That pretty much hits the nail on the head for me too.
 
Lol, there have been some cold, windy, pouring rain days in a dead or sketchy tree, and I'm all like... "what the heck am I doing in this crap tree?" Then go out and do it again the next day.

You might be onto something mikegear.
 
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....Recreational tree climbing has no challenge other than reaching the top and thus it is not as exhilerating as pruning a tree and seeing your work of art (or as challenging as pushing grade limits while rock climbing).

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Such a question is very interesting and SO individualized. You could ask it about everything we do and get a different answer for each. A challenge for one, my be a bore for another and there is always a new challenge in most every sport or vocation if you look for it.
My real comment here is that I am sorry for anyone that uses financial gain as the deciding factor for ANYTHING as I think it leads to a very shallow and unsatisfying end. One of the best things I have done in life is not change from my childhood dreams.
 
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Lol, there have been some cold, windy, pouring rain days in a dead or sketchy tree, and I'm all like... "what the heck am I doing in this crap tree?" Then go out and do it again the next day.

You might be onto something mikegear.

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I've always heard in regards to being a tree dude. "You either got it or you don't". They must have been talking about a thick head.
 
Climbing trees or rocks requires a level of focus that leaves no room in my mind for random thoughts or worries. It is a moving meditation and makes me feel good.
Granted, I don't have all that much room in my mind to begin with. ;-)
 
I am a plantsman 1st and tree climber second.
Most times I can't believe I get paid to do both.
Care for, touch and climb trees!

Free climbing is good fun but with ropes you can really go for a Tarzan/Spiderman/Monkey man etc. Its the best kind of play!
At times it is as close to flying as one can get.
Its the flying around that will get you everytime.
Cheers
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This is a fun thread!

I just dig climbing. I've been asked what is special about tree climbing before, and sometimes I reply with something like: "I'm actually climbing rope, and the rope happens to be connected to the tree, but what a fun place it is to be!"

I think that tree climbing is a bit more accessible to most people, geography dependent, of course. I've climbed some trees for removal and wished they were being preserved instead, because they would have been so fun to climb again and again! I enjoy the creative process of putting gear together for certain tree types, and letting the climb become an unfolding, organic expression of climbing ideas. I'm sure rock climbing can offer the same, but it's hard to beat a good swinging move, or even linking moves together in large enough canopies. You can also spend the time in the shade, while birds are coming along to say hi. Heck, even setting a throw-line is fun, to me!
 
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Yeah the shade is nice but it gets cut down unfortunately before the hot part of the afternoon every frickin time. That's the worst part of the job.

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Physics aside, I wish we could start from the bottom and remove the wood first and leave the brush for last.
 
When I was a kid, there was a White Pine that all of the neighborhood kids liked to climb. We would climb to probably 20' - 30' or so. My mom would get so pissed when she would catch us in that tree. Maybe that's part of the reason we like to climb trees, because our moms told us not to.
 
We had big poplars around the neighborhood. Four of us kids would climb and our mothers never said a thing. If not that then the school roof or any other roof that looked like fun.

I'd pile up snow and do 40' jumps into the snow pile. It just was the thing to do. Then reading the Bushcraft/native culture books by Tom Brown confirmed it by describing tree climbing as the ultimate workout. Never looked back.
 
The cemetery we grew up beside had a magnificent white pine that my brother and I climbed to the very top bows We could see all the way from the Etobicoke to downtown Toronto. We climbed every tree, TV antenna and roof top that we could. Just something about getting up above everything.

Now I tell people I get paid to do what my mom scolded me for.
 
Another great thing about climbing trees as a production arborist (of which i am not anymore) is the fact that you might be the only person on earth that ever gets to climb a particular tree. Some trees see a lot of climbers, but there are probably more that only get climbed once or twice in their life. For me, the value of that unique experience greatly outweighs holding onto the face of a rock that so many others have held onto.
 
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