Tree climbing

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Does anyone out there still climb trees? I spent most of my childhood climbing in trees, and I’m saddened that I haven’t been in them much at all lately.

Huzzah and a hearty “mad props, yo” to anyone over thirty who’s climbed a tree in the past 6 months.

Rob

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I haven’t done too much climbing lately, but I can still climb almost any tree. Even those without branhes. I practiced backwards climbing a little bit too. It’s fun.

edit. My dad is 41 and he climbs trees sometimes. His a bit better than me.

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As a kid I, too, love climbing trees.

As it happens, this past summer I had occasion to climb a tree. I was over doing some juggling with a friend whose wife arranges get togethers for families that have twins, triplets, etc.

He has two daughters who are twins and an older one, 6 or so, who is not a twin. The older one was off climbing a tree and I ended up talking to her and what do you know, climbing up the tree with her.

It is safe to say it had been at least 2 decades since I’d been up in a tree. Yeah, it felt good.

Ah, I’m 43 now. :slight_smile:

And coincidentally the subject of tree climbing came up in a conversation at my congregation. There is a cherry tree easily climbed in the play area. Some parents were complaining that kids climb it and that it is ornamental and so shouldn’t be climbed. Others felt, all issues of liability aside, kids like to climb trees and who’s to stop them. All agreed that it was a pretty odd decision to put an ornamental tree in the meetinghouse playground.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

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You start at the top?

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I used to climb alot of trees when I used to play alot of tag, but now I guess everyone is “to cool”(or not cool enough) to play tag nowadays. My neighbor was obsessed with climbing trees. We would be talkin and what ya know, hed be in a tree. But now I can’t remember the last time I climbed a tree.:frowning:

-Brian

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You’re not supposed to?! O_O

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i guess i ‘migrated’ from trees to rock climbing at some stage
and, perversely enough, when i’m on a rock route and there is a tree or a really handy branch at a most opportune (read smooth) section of rock, i consider the tree totally out of bounds and wont even seriously consider grabbing onto a branch to help me past the ‘problem’

while i served in the army, we were taught how to camoflage our vehicles using a camo-net and branches to break-up the rectangular shape of the vehicle
since u need to be able to do this at great speed in the event of receiving a warning of incoming aircraft while driving in convoy, we used to get hold of branches by scrambling up trees, holding onto branches and jumping out
we had an environmental impact:o :frowning:

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We did this if the vehicle was supposed to be on the same place for more than five minutes. And I was always the one climbing trees if someone had to do it. I hate camo-nets. I had to do this way too many times alone.

No, I mean my head is facing down. It’s actually a little easier than it sounds, but still, it’s not easy.

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and trying to get all the twigs out so u could fold it up again was the worst!

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im with gild on the switched to rock climbing thing. but when im not cllimbing rock, or even indoors at the climbing wall (Im there 4 days a week), I climb everything else. Trees, buildings, light poles, absolutly anything.

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I used to love climbing trees. But I was never very good at it. When I lived in Virginia there was a reeaally good tree for it, with branches in all the right places.

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And trying to lift them back to the car when they were wet after rain. Those things were heavy, dirty and after lifting, your clothes were also wet, heavy and dirty.

Back to topic:

You can climb smaller trees a lot faster if there are no branches.

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I’ve climbed trees without using my legs, and I’ve climbed trees with my arm in a sling (broken clavicle, not related to tree climbing), but I have to say that upside-down is the most impressive way to climb trees that I’ve heard about.

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It has to be done on a thin tree without any branches that will block you.

  1. Bend your body so that you can wrap your arms around the tree (And your head should be facing down now, while feet remain on the ground)
  2. Hold on tight and lift your lower body up so you can also wrap your legs around the tree. You should be able to keep yourself up without the hands now.
  3. Put your hands to about the same level with shoulders. Palms should be on the sides of the tree and your arms shouldn’t be around the tree anymore.
  4. Let your legs relax a little bit and push yourself up a little bit with your hands.
  5. Squeeze your legs harder around the tree again and lift your hands up to about the shoulder level again.
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you are happy with the height.
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I recently learned to climb gym ropes like this. I guess i never mentioned that. At the cimbing gym here, when I get bored, the rope is the way to go. swashbuckling, climbing, and swinging on it are deffinaty all worthwile ways to spend my time.

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i love climbing trees but often i climb up and then wonder how the twig i got up there and get stuck for ages until i figure a way down…

treepotato writing from the boughs of a potato tree been stuck here now for hours thinking of a plan…

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I’m 22 and like to climb trees, haven’t done it for awhile though. This past weekend I got to go on a zip line, that was pretty fun. The second time the guy said I could go upside down, but I didn’t do it till the end, it was fun! If I go back i’m gonna go upside down the whoooooolllllleee way. : )

Andrew

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I used to climb on top of my monitor, but ever since my accident I have’t been able to. Don’t worry, the doctors said they’ve figured a way to remove this monitor out of my butt, they just need a bigger icecream scooper… what was I thinking!

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I suppose you are now using your computer through a mirror.