tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 18, 2010 - 11:54am PT
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Just wondering how many folks here started out by climbing trees as a kid.
I loved climbing up the pine trees in my folks yard as a kid. I gotta imagine that many here experienced getting off the ground by scaling trees as a kiddo.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:58am PT
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You called it. Tree forts were my first bivies.
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L
climber
Training for the Blue Tape Route on Half Dome
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Mar 18, 2010 - 11:59am PT
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I'm from the MidFlatWest. Trees were my first mountains.
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:04pm PT
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Climbed trees when I was 14. Started rockclimbing when I was 30. 16 years of watching TV between.
Dave
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:06pm PT
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Yup, had a nice circut BITD.
Now we bring a rope and runners and hit the big ones.
Nothing like 5.9 tree climbing with a bowline and hip belay!
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Buju
Trad climber
the range of light
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:07pm PT
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I have been climbing trees about two decades longer than i have been climbing rocks... still love it!
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aaronfm
Trad climber
BA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:11pm PT
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yup -- the redwood in my dad's backyard. Used to climb almost 4 stories off the ground; it had a beautiful view of the neighborhood. It had no branches the first 15 ft, so I used to do a small jump from the roof of the house to get on it.
I also used to climb up the boulders littering the beaches while visiting my grandparents in Maine. Every once in a while, I'd get stuck trying to downclimb and would be very glad to have a 6'7" tall dad!
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
Why'djya leave the ketchup on the table?
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:12pm PT
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My first broken bone (which aches these days, when I get cold), left wrist, falling out of oak tree, after my older brother spit in my eye from higher up in the same tree. He lobbed a perfect luggie out into space, it arced perfectly and plopped right in my eye... right on the eyeball!
I was laughing and revolted and trying to wipe it out whilst hanging upside down on a branch and lost my grip.
Jeeze I remember clearly as I wore a cast that whole f*#king summer.
I raised my crooked arm up in the air, at my bro and shouted, "You broke my arm you as#@&%e!" I was 9 or 10 I think, maybe 11. Who the hell knows, I don't.
He just laughed as I ran toward the house hollering for momma.
DMT
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:18pm PT
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redwood and eucalyptus , 60 foot garden hose, mom was pissed.
saw a bad accident, the girl next door dropped 20 feet and smacked her head on a lyptus branch, we were about 5, and it freaked me out, concussion,
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Paulina
Trad climber
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:19pm PT
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Yes... It's only been a few years since I stopped climbing trees. I must be getting old.
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jstan
climber
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:24pm PT
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From the Emilio Segre archiv:
Dirac enjoyed mountain climbing and ascended several well-known peaks, such as Mount Elbruz in the Caucasus. He prepared for these excursions by climbing trees in the hills outside Cambridge, wearing the same black suit in which he was always seen about campus.
Dirac occupied Newton's chair at Cambridge and some feel he was the foremost British theorist since Newton himself. He was often seen climbing trees on campus in full rig. He probably was not one of the night climbers at that school. He was a loner.
Oh. if there is a question that has long puzzled you, try this link. Fascinating.
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/everyday-physics/
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:26pm PT
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Yep.
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Matt M
Trad climber
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:27pm PT
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Took apart my swingset to "make" climbing gear. Made a harness and pitons. I actually used large nails with handmade rivet loops to climb big, branchless trees down near a creek by my house. Later, I used SS 3/8in Lag Screws and bolts hangers to rope solo lead climb these things. Made my own portaledge out of plywood one summer too. I would leave film canisters at the top of them as summit registers. This was when I was 14. My parents sent me to the Gunks the next summer...
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:37pm PT
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I used to climb so many trees that when I first heard of Forrest Mountaineering I thought that's the shop for me. I still like climbing trees and I am old enough to supposedly know better.
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Hankster
Trad climber
Left Hand, CO
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Mar 18, 2010 - 12:46pm PT
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It's part of my job.
 Missing photo ID#149989
Caylor
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Guilty. Then I got into hiking. It snowballed out of control from there. Its a good addiction.
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 01:48pm PT
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Trees. Then buildings. Then I went to J-tree with non-climbers in college and it's a miracle I survived!
Ropes followed 2 years later.
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Silver
Big Wall climber
Nor Nev
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:17pm PT
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Still Love it.
I used to have a 60 foot tree in my back yard some idiot had topped to it had about a 9 inch round on top with a new top shoot. I would climb it and stand on the top and hold the new top shoot and just look out over the town.
Muir was an avid tree climber who would climb trees in the wind and just sway back and forth. So the legend goes!
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:45pm PT
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In Portland, yes, at a really young age. Then chimneyed up doorways in the house. Then enjoyed getting on the roof bc of the great view.
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telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
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Mar 18, 2010 - 02:51pm PT
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Trees, the neighbors barn, radio towers, buildings downtown at night, then finally, 46ers in the Adirondacks, Chapel Pond Slab at 15.
My first roped climb was a Fritz Weissner route... and I haven't looked back since. (until now).
Nice thread, thanks.
Marc
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