Jolly1,as long as you had more experience,you need a daisy rope to secure you to enjoy the canopy sightseeing.
The simple daisy rope,you can learn form Tengu tip-
http://www.newtribe.com/documents/tip3.htm
Actually,this daisy rope was invented by Peter Jenkins.
Enjoy it,you will have more fun.

Elliot / Tree Climbing Taiwan / This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thanks for the heads up Elliot, very thoughtful of you. I am getting out into the trees as much as possible. Seems like the minute I come down I am planning when I can get up there again. Here in New Hampshire it was a wonderful day for climbing. I had my first little taste of riding the wind. I wasn't up at the top where the action was, but further down, where I belong for now. It was very stimulating to feel that gentle sway, and I will say the wind was roaring. Wow! All the best Don

dear jolly1

you live is such a beautiful area, i spent many summers on vacation as a child and climb the mountains and walked the rivers along the maine borders. i like bethleham area.

gee do you have a couch for me to crash on you can visit here in georgia when you need it. i miss snow we could get in a few climbs and talk about knots.

we could share trees and climbing advneture.

welcome to the site, see you in a tree

jz

Hi JZ, Small world. You can crash here anytime. Thanks for your offer. I live in the middle of NH. bethlehem is up in God's country. The north country is mainly the mtns. and the water from them titans comes down to form..as the Indians called it.. God's teardrops. You would like all the lakes sitting majestically looking up at the White mtns.
Thanks for your shorts on You tube. I have watched most of them. I am guessing they are about the length your digital camera can hold. Blue fingers, very creative.
On a funny note I drove for a few hrs hunting the 4 wheel track roads for the right tree. Boy they have cleared a lot of the old growth. Sad. The funny part is on the way home desperate to climb something new, I spied a very old maple in the cememtary. It was great fun. I have never been so relaxed in a tree, what with all those branches under me. It was heavenly.It reminded me of all those times as a kid. Unfortunately, even though I had cut the dead wood for them, when the manager of the place happened to come on a Sunday he freaked out . Oh well. I knew that would happen if they found me out. Funny if I hadn't piled the old branches near the road for them to pick up they probably wouldn't have even seen me.
All the best. Don

Property managers hate it when people climb their trees and prune. It's best not to take out deadwood on a tree that you will probably climb only once.

It's true that New Hampshire has been heavily logged, there are surprisingly few big trees for such a forested state. There are some pockets of older growth, check out the Eastern Native Tree Society website for more info.
-moss

Quote: "Property managers hate it when people climb their trees and prune. It's best not to take out deadwood on a tree that you will probably climb only once." Moss

It is funny but some people thinks that any cut done on the tree is damaging to it even removing dead branches that are just causing extra load of weight on the tree. A neighbor close to my house got all bent-out-of-shape when I was cutting some dead branches (Twigs) from a tree on his neighbor's yard. He claimed that he did not wanted to see a "naked tree" from his window. I explained that the extra dead load was attracting parasitic growth (mistletoe) that was further decaying the tree and eventually will kill them.
He has a tree right next to his house that has a large broken branch on the top and I told him that it was a good idea to remove it to prevent from falling on top of his roof. The branch is still there and will probably fall during the next windstorm. He does not know that the insurance polices do not (fully)cover that kind of "wind" damage! but at the same time they do not hesitate to hire a "treehacker" to butcher their trees.

Many urban area trees benefit from a properly done removal of deadwood!