As you all know by now, Myself and my busines partner, Richard and my former apprentice, Anders went to Cali to see and climb the worlds biggest, tallest and oldest trees. Those being: giant sequoia, redwood and bristlecone pine.
We didn't climb the bristlecones, though, not really much of a challenge since they are only about 30 feet tall.
First we went to one of the most out of the way and least visited sequoia growes. I won't mention the name on an open forum. I had tried contacting various people during the last year to see if I could get permission to climb one, but had no luck.
Even the native americans have become assimilated to a degree, that they worry about getting sued, like any good american would. So we couldn't climb on the Tule reservation lands, where there are some nice trees.
Finally we decided to go to the remotest place we could find and just do a good old ninja-climb.
There are about 10-15 trees of 25000 cubic feet or more in the growe, plenty of opportunity to climb. We could easily have used a week there.
We managed to get to the top of one large tree and spent the night up there in treeboats.
It was a really scary climb for us, the branches bow downward and are extremely slippery on top+ there were huge amounts of deadwood just needing a slight touch to fall. we really had to be careful not to drop something the size of of a concert piano on the next climber.
The morning was beautiful, with the sun rising over the Sierras
We didn't climb the bristlecones, though, not really much of a challenge since they are only about 30 feet tall.
First we went to one of the most out of the way and least visited sequoia growes. I won't mention the name on an open forum. I had tried contacting various people during the last year to see if I could get permission to climb one, but had no luck.
Even the native americans have become assimilated to a degree, that they worry about getting sued, like any good american would. So we couldn't climb on the Tule reservation lands, where there are some nice trees.
Finally we decided to go to the remotest place we could find and just do a good old ninja-climb.
There are about 10-15 trees of 25000 cubic feet or more in the growe, plenty of opportunity to climb. We could easily have used a week there.
We managed to get to the top of one large tree and spent the night up there in treeboats.
It was a really scary climb for us, the branches bow downward and are extremely slippery on top+ there were huge amounts of deadwood just needing a slight touch to fall. we really had to be careful not to drop something the size of of a concert piano on the next climber.
The morning was beautiful, with the sun rising over the Sierras
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