It'll rouse up the natives that's for sure.
Terri and I are thinking of going up to Bull Creek next week to see if we can find the Hyperion tree. Not too far from you. We alway's stop in Garberville for breakfast at the Eel River Cafe, about 6am. Why not join us and bring Kristi and the kids.
The air was so heavy it felt like I had a blanket on. And I was just taking pictures. I remember the kids Mike hired to hussel brush under you dropped like flies. One told me, "I think I'm going to die."
Flip over backwards. Did that once, on a big double. I had to extend the flipline as I climbed the tree because the trunks spread farther apart as I went up. For the lack of taper below me to catch the flipline if it dropped just gave me ten feet of slack all of a sudden like. And there was...
That's about right, Greg. I always thought that a large diameter flipline event should be in the olympics. 6,8 and 10 foot class for the eliminations,, and a 15 footer for the grand finale and the gold.
I would really love to see that.
In the Working Climber DVD the title, "Spur and Flipline" Eric is climbing the Coombs Tree at the end. Took nearly 50' of rope to make it around at the butt.
Greg's right, it's easy to work a rope around a big bole on the ground. When you get on the side of the tree it is another thing...
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