Watch this space! We will let you know as far in advance as possible if we'll be holding our Beginner's Climb on a first or third Sunday. It all depends on Mother Nature!
View the "Thank You" note from Abe Winters in our Forums Announcements
New and simplified"Difficulty Ratings"can be used to describe your climbing tree to others.
New Information: We have posted two new articles. "Tree Selection" is an overview of the basics for what makes a tree "climbable." "A Climber's Guide to Tree Inspection" is a detailed outline for assessing whether a tree is safe to climb. (This piece is also helpful to non-climbers who want to check their trees before calling on a professional for help.) Both articles were written by Peter "Treeman" Jenkins, founder of TCI, a certified arborist, and a life-long tree climber.
Watch our "Gear Rater," as we are continually putting up new equipment for review.
What's New in our Store?
"TREE CLIMBER'S COMPANION" Jeff Jepson's manual for professional and recreational climbers. Details
"CLIMBER ABOVE" -- a new line of products to increase safety and bring tree climbers out of the shadows! Details
"ADVICE FROM A TREE" poster, a great gift for anyone who loves trees! Details
Welcome to TCI!
Tree Climbers International® is a worldwide organization of people who love to climb trees. We do this safely and with utmost care for the trees we climb. We want the sport of "rope and harness" tree climbing available so that everyone can experience the joy and wonder of seeing the world from the heights of the treetops!
Tree climbing is not just for children. It's for people of all ages who are young at heart and ready for the enjoyment trees can provide. Why don't you explore our website and learn more about it? Better yet, come experience the adventure with us!
TCI was started by Peter "Treeman" Jenkins, a retired rock and mountain
climber-turned tree surgeon (now an ISA-Certified Arborist).
TCI is proud and excited to bring you our new website, launched in September 2007. Take a look
around in these pages and you'll find lots of helpful information about all things related to recreational tree climbing. There is a new photo gallery, and
our popular TCI Forums has a new format. We have also added three unique online tools for climbers:
Our “Gear Rater” guides climbers (both recreational and professional) through the array of equipment available to them; and
Our “Climber Finder” gives TCI members access to each other through geographic maps, listings, and secure email capability.
Our “Event Finder” publicizes upcoming tree climbing events and TCI classes;
Combined, these features offer climbers new ways to easily connect with each other and to share knowledge among themselves and
others.
Please come back often! We update our site regularly with information and announcements. Do you have ideas or suggestions? We want to hear about
them; please
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! As always, we look forward to your
participation and to meeting you in the treetops!
The Founder's Grove
The TCI Founder's Grove was established in Atlanta, Georgia by Peter "Treeman" Jenkins in 1983 when he bought a piece of property with two magnificent 100-year-old white oak trees. Nimrod is the larger tree on the right; "Dianna" is on the left. Today, Dianna stands alone on this property. Nimrod was taken down on February 25, 2008 after he died from beetle infestation and hypoxaline canker, a terminal fungus brought on when severe drought weakened the tree's immune system.
Many thousands of climbers have taken their very first excursion up into the treetops at the TCI Founder's Grove, and hundreds more have learned to climb in TCI's Basic Tree Climbing Course there. In addition, most of the instructors who now teach recreational tree climbing got their training from Treeman in Nimrod's branches. It can truthfully be said that Nimrod easily qualified as "the most climbed tree in the world"!
TCI still conducts our classes at the Founder's Grove in Dianna. No matter where they climb, however, children and adults delight at the sensation of hanging suspended from a rope while high in a tree. It is at once a thrilling, calming, and enchanting experience. We hope you will try it with us some time!
TCI Mission Statement
Tree Climbers International, Inc. promotes tree climbing as a safe
recreational activity suitable for people of all ages.
Our goals are to:
Discover and promote technical tree climbing techniques that are safe
for people and do no harm to trees.
Provide qualified tree climbing instruction by TCI-trained instructors.
Produce and distribute educational and inspiring publications to promote
safe recreational tree climbing.
Create climbing chapters (or "groves" ) in every city, town,
or hamlet worldwide.
Hold periodic regional, national, and international tree climbing
gatherings.
Create a communication network of tree climbing enthusiasts through
our website and publications.
Locate and secure access to large or unusual climbing trees suitable
for recreational climbing.
Promote respect and responsibility towards trees and the natural environment.
Have fun exploring the high canopy while sharing adventures with like-minded
people.
Then here's to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who stands in his pride alone!
And still flourish he, a hale green tree,
When a hundred years are gone!
--Henry Fothergill Chorley, "The Brave Old Oak"
Tree Climbers International® is a worldwide organization of people who love to climb trees. We do this safely and with utmost care for the trees we climb. We want the sport of "rope and harness" tree climbing available so that everyone can experience the joy and wonder of seeing the world from the heights of the treetops!
Today, Dianna stands alone on this property. Nimrod was taken down on February 25, 2008 after he died from beetle infestation and hypoxaline canker, a terminal fungus brought on when severe drought weakened the tree's immune system.