Tree Climbing an Emerging Sport
I was doing it before it was cool to. I even got blacklisted at a studio for doing it.
The top of a 90-foot-tall Southern white oak may be a great place to spend the night if you're a cardinal or a bluejay. But it's not exactly the place you'd expect to see a group of, say, Internet executives setting up camp. Not, that is, unless you're a fan of the emerging sport of tree climbing, a pursuit that takes the childhood passion of hoisting oneself into a favorite tree's branches to new—and sometimes extreme—heights. "It's a mystical experience," says certified arborist Peter Jenkins, founder of Atlanta-based Tree Climbers International, which teaches a climbing course that takes people to points among the canopy from 60 to 200 feet high. "The wind comes up and stirs the tree, like it's speaking to you. It's about being with nature, and being with yourself."
More here.
Tree Climbing International site here.
I was doing it before it was cool to. I even got blacklisted at a studio for doing it.
The top of a 90-foot-tall Southern white oak may be a great place to spend the night if you're a cardinal or a bluejay. But it's not exactly the place you'd expect to see a group of, say, Internet executives setting up camp. Not, that is, unless you're a fan of the emerging sport of tree climbing, a pursuit that takes the childhood passion of hoisting oneself into a favorite tree's branches to new—and sometimes extreme—heights. "It's a mystical experience," says certified arborist Peter Jenkins, founder of Atlanta-based Tree Climbers International, which teaches a climbing course that takes people to points among the canopy from 60 to 200 feet high. "The wind comes up and stirs the tree, like it's speaking to you. It's about being with nature, and being with yourself."
More here.
Tree Climbing International site here.
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