Once at a show I heard some folks talking about how those pictures were photo chopped. How it was impossible for someone to do that.
How do you explain that to a person who has never even seen a redwood?
Best to just buy Ger's video sets.
Something that is really hard for climbers who have not worked in the tall trees of the west coast to appreciate is the distance one must traverse up the tree.
I know from personal experience that there are huge diameters in the trees of the east and southeast. Maybe not as big as what I've spur climbed up here in Oregon, certainly not as big as those down in NorCal redwood country, but by dang big nonetheless.
But the thing that will kick your azz is the height that the diameters reach to. Any strong, persistent climber can manage to worry his way up a spur climb on a 80+ inch stem when the extent of the climb is 25 feet. Make that 125 feet and the picture changes radically.
I don't mean to talk down to y'all easterners...I know that many of you are outstanding climbers, spur and otherwise. Far better than I on many fronts.
But you really don't know whereof you speak when you underestimate the challenges of fliplining these tall, fat stems.
So come on out, we'll have a another great GTG, and give spur climbing some biggies a go. Rec climbing is legal on National Forests, so far! It won't hurt the Douglas firs one little smidge
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Oh, federal, don't need a state lisense!
