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Spur climbing a seed tree? I thought that was against the law of God or something. I'm amazed that the tree still lives.

Well, parties and stealth climbing don't go well together:lol:

Darin, I have several back-up plans if the grove we are spending the week in is full of snow or rangers. I did the same thing last time we went. Brought a stack of maps and descriptions of several of the most remote groves, so that if our #1 choice failed, we could go somewhere else. Last time...

No, I had hoped to be able to come, but having to fit the scedules of all 3 of us with work/families together we won't be able to make it. Not if we want to climb Sequoias, that is. If the GTG had been a week later, I could have come up. Bummer, but it won't be the last GTG, I'm sure. Maybe I...

That looks like the kind of tree where you might easily start getting bad thoughts about the weight of a climber being enough to tip it over. How far out from the trunk would one be when going up a line. 60 feet ?

From the picture it looked like it would be a fairly easy shot to set a line in on of the bigger branches. Then "just" SRT up. There seems to be enough branches to make climbing the top doable by advancing your rope with a short throwline. We are going back to spend a week sneak climbing in the...

That looks like it would be one fun tree to climb, Jerry. Do you have the GPS coordinates on it, I'll be going to California in June, be fun to pay it a visit:)

Burnham, I posted some pictures of a nasty rotten beech we took down with a Coos bay a while ago. I couldn't reach all the way through the middle with my 24" bar, so I cut a face into the side of the tree, so I could fit the saw in there when i did the tripping cut. Basically a conventional...