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I looked up pile hitch and tried it. Works great. Thanks. Just tying the rope to the line makes the most sense. Think I'm just over complicating things.

Ha! I thought about the throwing the two bags on and off again today. Think I got off pretty lucky. It was a bad idea with a positive outcome. Luckily it was an isolated target with no other trees around. I can picture myself looking up at two throwbags and my line stuck in the tree and thinking...

I tried the running bowling and the alpine butterfly over the weekend. Everything went smooth. Seems easier to move around than a base tie once I made it to the canopy. Thanks for the help. Only problem I had was getting my throwbag hung up. I ended up tying another throwbag to the other end of...

Yep. I've got an old barn on the property that I've rigged up for solo climbing and trying things out. 30 foot 8x8 oak timbers and different assorted boards and ladders strategically lined. Pretty safe. One day I was climbing by myself. Went to move my tie in and dropped it. Luckily it hit a...

My wife will be here. At this stage in the game she doesn't like for me to climb when no-one is around. I've already got in trouble for it!:)

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Here where I live in the Ozark mountains of Missouri there are mostly oak, hickory, sycamore, and maples. Some pine and lots of cedar. I picked out a white oak I'm going to try out tomorrow. Sprawling branches easy to isolate. Only climbed srt three...

Cool. Thanks for the replies. It seemed like a good idea last night, not so much now! I have a lot of those. So running bowline or alpine butterfly it is. I'll try both tomorrow. Is a canopy tie in better than a base tie overall or is it matter of preference or depends on condition?

Hello. I'm New to climbing and especially srt. I've used different base tie techniques and I'm sitting here thinking about canopy tie ins. I've read about using the running bowline and alpine butterfly and using another line to retrieve. My question is could I use a carabiner and run my climb...