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Well you got me on that one B. Maybe I'm just stuck in my ways and not very good at being told what to do (since so much of what I've been told to do in my life has been wrong).

I got thoroughly chewed out and threatened with being fired for screaming at some dumb frig that almost sent the tail of my lifeline through the chipper. Thousands of situations like that and many years of working with people whom I could not trust with my life resulted in an extreme aversion to...

I would run the bowline up the tree just because it left me no choice but to go get it. Just some mind games to push myself harder. It was definitely the 'point of no return'. And I never got comfortable working off SRT. I just used it as an easier way to ascend into big trees. Not many could...

Many of us who buy the Pantin do so because we have never been able to footlock effectively. So a judgement that the Pantin is not necessary would depend on the footlocking skill of the climber.

For the initial ascent I did quite well with a handled ascender and a Pantin. I put the handled ascender on a loop runner and attached it to my saddle with a carabiner. I had the Pantin on my foot. I had my VT hitch attached directly to the rope and riding along as my backup to catch me if I...

Chris, many of us originally learned tree climbing that way. I'm another one who learned updated methods only through the internet and these forums. I was never trained by anyone but learned by watching other climbers and then later attempting to replicate the moves on my own. I applied that...