Sorry dude, but that sounds like a bunch of bull-hockey! And my attempts with the calipers to come up with a tree height from your lower photo works out to something in the 95-110 foot range.
Ahhaaahaaahaa!

Have you hugged your trees today,
Wild Bill from Dawsonville
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?????? you have no idea of how quickly ANY activity in our parks gets shut down if one or two people complain. That is why i try to stealth climb, its just eaiser thatn constantly losing areas to climb. The parks people here are so deathly afraid of getting sued that they clamp down on any activity that is'nt mainstream

as for the tree hieght , i still have'nt measured it, but the T.I.P. i rigged to yesterday was at 75 feet, and that was'nt even halfway up the tree yet.

Very tough to estimate tree height from the ground by standing under the tree and looking at it. It looks tall from the photo, not many hardwood trees get up over 110-120 ft. the exception on the west coast being some imported eucalyptus, and some cottonwood/poplar species. First thing to determine is what species it is. Next climb it and do some measuring.

It doesn't really matter at this point how tall it is, that's why I didn't dispute the original estimate of 200 ft. Bill's guess of 110' is probably close. That's a heck of a good height for any hardwood. Looks like a good tree to climb.

I have to climb more or less ninja on most trees on public land so I wouldn't put coordinates on the internet. But it's no problem to say "the tree is in so and so state park" etc.
-moss

ah your right Moss, the area its in is huge, and i'm pretty much the only rec climber in Vancouver anyways...(well as far as i know).
there is a guy in Burnaby and several on the Island...


the tree is in the UBC Endowment Lands.

Damn, I hate being right! It's so boring.

Ok, the only tall maple species I can find for your area is Big Leaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum. Champion trees of this species are in the 110 ft. range. Still a big tree and you might have yourself a champion tree for Canada.

The main thing I like about that tree is the double leader, makes for some fun climbing.
-moss

thats what i was thinking too (tree id).

i like the double trunk too, HOWEVER there are several limbs that have open waterlogged/mossy cavities on the tops of the limbs, right by the trunk, that you cant see until you've climbed up past them. My first TIP had one, about 1.5' long x 6" wide x 6" deep. Makes the pucker factor up a bit when you anchor to them unknowingly :|


i'm going to sling the throwline as close to the top of the canopy as i can, then pull up a soft measuring tape from the ground (spool anchored at gorund) to measure the tree. I've done some glassing of the tree, and the limbs near the top are poor TIP's, so i'm restricting my climbs to lower and middle limbs only.


i left my spiderwire 15lb braid tagline in the tree, with a little 1 oz lead weight tied to the end and pulled up high into the tree. The other end is attached (hidden) down at ground. No throwline tossing today, just undo the line, lower it down, tie on the throwline, pull that over, thenpull up the rope and cambium saver..


anyways, laundry is finally done, i'm gearing up and heading back out.