Ascending the Giants

[Bounce]

Check out this website: http://www.ascendingthegiants.com/index.php?page=home. Some pretty amazing pictures. Anybody here ever been involved in a project like this?

 

[Frans]

I see NewTribe is a sponsor. They must be up in Oregon

 

[Bounce]

Yup, which is probably why most of the expeditions are in the PNW.

 

[RIVERRAT]

Now that sight has some pretty cool
pics!

 

[gf beranek]

Some whopper trees there for sure. That larch was interesting. I had never seen the detail before. Cool.

 

[jamie]

this is about the biggest tree i've ever seen. not as big as you boys have but big for sunny scotland, you can just make out someones head at the bottom left of the stem

Jamie

edit: and trees do grow sideways like that here, it makes climbing them one long limb walk

 

[Bodean]

That was really cool.

 

[Old Monkey]

Some trees shouldn't be climbed. If that truly was the largest tanoak, a tree species that has been decimated by Sudden Oak Death, why risk infecting it by climbing it?

 

[rbtree]

I met those guys at at party in Portland after the June TCC.....great guys...a couple of them are experienced photographers.....one works for General Tree. He's Brian, I'd actually met him earlier at the Tacoma TCC...He had his Tree Boat in a cool native American Hornbeam....

 

[treelooker]

why risk infecting it by climbing it?

Good point; maybe they should sanitize their eqpt first.

 

[No_Bivy]

soap and water? jus wondering. I sanitize pruning gear with 90% rub-alc.