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You can make one with some heavy gauge copper wire or buy one from New Tribe here, they want $32. for it, a bit higher then when I bought mine few years ago. -AJ

For me this is the future of rec climbing. I would like to start at a spot in the woods at dawn and see how far I can go horizontally through the canopy in one day without touching ground. So far I'm just doing short routes through several trees. Solo is particularly challenging, you have to...

A friend of mine has already done a rescue on a RC quadcopter that hung in a tree. Another friend builds quadcopters complete with live feed mini-video cam on the front. Challenge is the copter needs to lift the payload, for example a 10oz throwbag plus the weight of the throwline. Typical...

Both vids great! Thanks Kevin. Cool thing about the Horse Knot use in the vid is the bight hockled and it still released -AJ

Looks like American Beech. Make sure there's not a large beech nearby, if it's a root sprout you'll have a tough time digging it up ;-) Typical for American Beech to send up root sprouts around a mother tree. Probably not great for a street tree though, likes a nice rich forest soil and plenty...

Thanks Smokey. Yep the video is missing some details, definitely tough to get things set up so everything's visible. Yep could use a camera man ;-) -AJ

Just picked up a ZK2 Rope wrench a couple weeks ago, been busy seeing what I can do with it, here's some SRT traversing I did with it recently. The wrench makes swing traverses tree-to-tree much easier since you can safely position yourself on the outer crown of deciduous trees. And you can do...

One way I've done it team climbing is go up, set the rope going across and have a climber on the ground anchor the rope at the base of the starting tree. That way multiple climbers can go across and the start side of the rope can be taken out from the ground when you're done for the day...

Good stuff Shaun. Definitely in a production environment you'd have ground help to make it happen, so methods will be different. When I've set traverses with help on the ground or a climber in the other tree it goes real fast. The ALB survey climbers in the northeast I've all talked to have...

The throwline technique Beastmaster described is what I do, I know the technique as "The Dangle". I demonstrate in this video, I'm primarily demonstrating a custom slingshot to make the throw to perform the Dangle but if you have a clear enough path you can throw by hand. Reality in woods...

Rope Wrench was invented by Detroit tree climber Kevin Bingham. It's patented and made in the U.S. The wrench is used for single rope climbing (SRT), a friction hitch is on the rope for the climber's life support connection, the wrench provides friction above the hitch so that a hitch can be...

No such thing but... since you haven't learned to climb yet, just about any healthy tree is a good place to climb. The skills required to safely climb really large trees take years to develop, if you get 60' off the ground in a "small" tree you'll find yourself in a whole new world. I talked...

Find some climbers, then go find some trees :-) biggest challenge for rec climbing is finding some places to climb. If you or your friends have some climbable trees on your own property that's a good start. I've spent years scouting the woods in my area to find the good climbing trees, takes...

Pantin does the trick. You can also put your other foot on your Pantin foot to get both legs involved pushing. For a footloop I like a handled ascender with a double footloop made from 8mm cord hanging off it. -AJ

Glad you had the chance to get off the ground! My wife and I are planning on visiting the redwoods in July, just to be there (not climb). I'm psyched! -AJ

Ya, relationship is a challenging concept, implies something reciprocal. But it's still the best word I can come up with to describe what happens when you climb a challenging tree in the forest. When you're standing on the ground looking up at it there's a lot you can figure out and understand...

Sorry to hear about that. The entire litigation/insurance system is rotten and everyone's eager to take advantage of it. -AJ

I hear you Wampum, just a heads up on the recreational use liability statutes, it's not all on the ambulance chasers side. I also hear you on the fallibility of the jury system, I could tell some stories. Anytime an adult goes into the woods whether it's to hike, hunt or tree climb, the...

There's more to that story. Typically a suit like that succeeds because there is an "attractive nuisance/hazardous conditions". Guessing their land was used regularly by ATV's, some with permission, some not. It's a "he said, she said" argument if that's the case, they probably argued that the...

Not to worry, if a tree climber trespasses on your land and hurts themselves you have no responsibility. Look at it this way, if a burglar tried to break into your house, fell off the porch roof and broke their leg do you think you'd have to pay their hospital bills? The good news for private...