Tree Climbers International - Yale "Poison Ivy" (12mm)

This rope is slightly larger (12mm) that the other 11mm ropes. This makes it a bit easier to grip, even though I use the blue gripper gloves with it most of the time to conserve my hand muscles during the ascent.

I have both colors. The green-black rope I use when I want low visibility while aloft. It has the color of a vine, which means it is very hard to see. I have a shorter 120 rope for lightness. This rope travels with my ultra-light gear heap, meaning my minimal set of gear using just a few carabiners.

I use the high visibility color for higher climbs. I use a 200 foot rope for this color because I want to clearly see where my rope threads on the higher pitch climbs and tall trees. I train with this rope in my yard on an 80 foot rope setting. I climb a leaning pine to get a "dead air" (no branches) ascent. The loblolly pine I climb is named "Thrasher".

Mechanical gear works well with this rope. It slides easily along. The slightly larger diameter (1mm more) makes this rope more versatile when climbing with the traditional Blake's hitch method.

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