Why do you love tree climbing?

Possibly because my very first childhood memory is that tingle you get in your belly button when hitting zero gravity on a swing?

Apparently my older brothers put a tail on a large tree swing, and used it to whip me up past horizontal because it made me laugh!

Just one of the reasons I'd like to do a bungee jump, to see if I'll laugh again, or cry?

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When I was 6 or 7 years old, an old landscape crew foreman that was installing our lawn prophesied that I would be a "landscaper" since I had been under foot the entire day helping to rake and then spread straw. The following summer My mother, brother and I spent most of the summer at our cottage in the south central PA mountains where one of our neighbor's grandson was also staying for an extended vacation. He and I found an old rope, managed to form a quasi bowline on a bight, and climbed a tulip poplar that was next to the road and had been topped by the power company. We would sit up in that tree for hours and pelt passing cars with the seed pods from the poplar. From there it was just a natural evolution. When I was still in PA I always reveled in the climb of the first nice day in spring, usually about this time of year. Something about the coming spring that was good to take the time to honor. That type of day doesn't really happen here in the south as much and I miss it.
 
It comes from a love of trees and the special feeling of being in and on a living and moving thing. Trees are not static. You can feel them.

I don't think the two rope skills are comparable at all. Seems like rock climbing is all about the height and thrill of exposure. The rope is just there to protect you if you fall.

Tree climbing isn't about the height. I stop thinking about it altogether when I'm working. But there is a thrill in moving around a tree, walking or even running along a limb that might be moving in the wind. Swinging from limb to limb. The rope is for movement and positioning, not for fall arrest. It's an active part of the tree climbing experience.
 
Only a Boar loves to climb trees,..to make fun of southern belles suffering acute stage fright?

Starting a gender war of incivilty by firing on Fort Someher?

You sir, are no gentleman!

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What about the redneck's question about the pole that 1/5 of Americans couldn't find their own country on the globe? I believe that to be true and not cool.

I know I ruined a really nice thread, big whoop, there's more where that came from. I should of twisted around your politics thread on the tree free zone. I think you guys could really benifit from some truths that are either kept from you or I don't know what the problem is down there. Is greed even a word in American or do you just call it the American dream?
 
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