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I live and work in northeast PA in Clark's summit.

Double crotch on tough limb walks. There's no shame in using a second tie in to keep yourself stable and allow you to do good work. Bad positioning often leads to cuts made at the wrong angle and location and also the quality suffers when I climber can't get stable and says to hell with it when...

Here's my beginner climbing tip and I have the pain in my one hip to validate it. Don't stand in a crotch when taking something large and upright off the tree. Get out of that crotch no matter how cozy it looks to get postioned in there. Things do go wrong and things can go the wrong way. Having...

Fair enough.

Im curious, why the extra gear? You can advance a rope without extra baggage. Am I the only one that throws a rope?

Don't you guys just roll up a monkey fist and bomb your line up ahead? I do. If the weight of a few rope coils and the biner wont get high enough I just twist up a money fist and launch that sucker. Blows through suckers and foliage pretty good and comes back to me nice with a few over hand loops.

Sometimes its quicker to just hit a good crotch, maybe not your target crotch, and monkey fist your way to the next crotch and so on until you hit your desired TIP. Its more work obviously. But time is money. Sometimes theres no other way then to just saddle up and get going. Anymore, I throw a...

Ya know, I have a big shot and for some reason never use it. I should bring it out of the archives. I just make a cradle and give that bag a throw.

That's not my quote. That's Ed's.

In 5 years you will be in a tree doing your thing and think "5 years ago this would have freaked me out". Mark my words.

Ive never double wrapped my lanyard. If you never get nervous in your career, you need to stop at once before you die.

I think we found something that rattles your cage! I get anxiety just looking at your poster on my wall. I still cant get my mind around your courage.

Neil, you seem intelligent and calculated. You'll make a safe climber of yourself in no time. Yes, I co-sign what Butch says, handsaws are wicked.

Something I remembered, stay out of crotches. Don't dump a top out while standing in a crotch. You don't ever want to get pinned. Struck by, or glanced off of is bad enough and can carry big penalties, but don't put yourself in a position to be trapped. Plus what Bermy said. Tying into old...

I prune in hard soles and haven't damaged tress.

Learn to read the saw. Splitting trunks can sometimes be felt while cutting. If you feel something suddenly fighting your saw while in the cut, its a good head up that the wood is misbehaving.

Ive gotten many calls from the best climbers in the world looking for a job. Usually means they suck. Delusions of grandeur.

You are too hard on yourself. Time improves things.

Another beginner tip that I thought of is this.... Do what you can, and nothing more. If it seems out of your league, don't let your pride push you into doing a tree that you aren't ready for. Some guys might disagree and say that's how you become better. It is, to an extent. But its also an...

My beginner tip... Learn to tie in as high as safely possibly on removals and full prunes. When I started climbing I didn't want to tie in in the tippy top. I wasn't comfortable up there. It made life difficult tying in too low on the tree all the time.