Boston Area Rec. Climbers

[nitwit dolt]

10-20-07?

When does the rain stop? Is this something we won't do on a wet tree? If things are too crappy, where do we go for lunch? Too many ?'s ? Let me Know.

 

[rmihalek]

We're supposed to have some "a.m. showers." My guess is things will start out a bit slick and then dry off towards noon. I think we'll be fine.

 

[DonnyO]

When does the rain stop? Is this something we won't do on a wet tree? If things are too crappy, where do we go for lunch? Too many ?'s ? Let me Know.

the rain won't stop us, bring your own snacks, h2o. etc.

 

[moss]

See you folks at 10. If it's raining hard I know of a most excellent place to get cranked up on espresso if you like that and then back to the tree and turbo climb. Or just mellow out with Ol'Dirty who fully understands the rec climbing attitude.

If anyone wants to fill up on breakfast I'll be at Sorella's at Hyde Sq. stuffing my face. Going to try for 8:45-9:00 to sit down, there's no line that early on Saturday. It's just a few blocks from the climb site.
Sorella's map
-moss

 

[DonnyO]

great success for B.A.R.C.

Once again Boston shows why we are on the cutting edge of Arboriculture! The usual suspects of myself, OTG, rmihalek, and moss hosted an awesome rec. climb! Glad to meet Rhodyfresh, and Rufus, as well as, Nigel, cameraman et all.

B.A.R.C. will continue to be the #1 recreational tree climbing organization in the entire free world for the foreseeable future! For those of you who are paying attention, you need to attend one of these events! We were able to climb a 90+ft european beech in Boston's esteemed Emerald Necklace in a park designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. The weather was perfect for treeclimbing in the low 70's and we had a good mix of pros and newbies.

We have put a lot of hard work into making it o.k. for us to climb these trees, if you want to come to Boston and climb, please look us up, I promise we will show you a good time.

 

[BostonBull]

 

[BostonBull]

Nitwit.....did you go and represent the North Shore?

 

[DonnyO]

nope

Nitwit.....did you go and represent the North Shore?

still no n.shore representation at our events.................

 

[Adkpk]

It's worth it for the ride.

Ya, these guys are the cream of the crop. Just move it a little west next time, Boston was just a little far for me this time. Glad to hear all went well. Who's got the pics?

 

[DonnyO]

Who's got the pics?

I didn't have my camera, but there was some video being shot, stay tuned...........

 

[rmihalek]

This beech was a beautiful example of a forest-grown tree: very tall and straight with the main spread of the crown at about 65 feet and up. A real great tree to climb, but the heavy growth in the understory led to some throw line entanglement and such. All great fun in a day's tree climbing.

It was great to see Moss, OTGBoston, Tedd (RhodyFresh?), DonnyO and the others there. Rufus needs to sign up here at AS so he can participate in more climbs; he was really soaking it all in.

I look forward to the video...

 

[moss]

Here are a few photos. I was too busy hanging ropes and taking care of my new climbers to get more. Nigel and Cameraman shot video, let's see what they come up with. While they were interviewing they introduced me as the world's greatest climber which gives an idea where this video was headed. Clearly DonnyO is the world's greatest climber so the final cut is bound to be full of tall tales and outright lies.

Rhodyfresh surveys the goings on

Nigel the wacky Steve Irwin disciple digs the height

The Thinker contemplating canopy space

-moss