Jealous of you limbwalkers!

I have found just ONE limb up here in BC that i can limbwalk on.....most of our trees are very tall, no limbs until about 80 feet, and the limbs are NOT limbwalking friendly, unless you enjoy hearing a sharp "CRACK!" and then the ensuing swing into the trunk and the accelerated heartrate....

our Oaks and maples are waterlogged dangerous entities, suitable for ascending up the trunk only. Any horizontal limbs you can MAYBE walk on about a foot or two, before they start creaking and snapping.....

Our big western red cedars are choked with limbs, every few inches on the trunk, making for a poor climb....

we got big willows, but the limb qaulity is very questionable.....thanks to our constant rain...the trees have pockets of rot and waterlogged limbs, cracks and twists that crumble into goopy treemuck the moment they are walked on...

argh...i'm jealous of you Southerners, with your big wide spacious trees that are strong and have big fat limbs to walk around on......

I will say that the majority of my climbing has been long vertical only ascents on HUGE douglas firs, with no limbwalking at all. Sure develops the MUSCLES in the arms and legs..... Lots of traverses, and swinging around the huge trunks.

so, consider yourselves very lucky with what trees you have....its hard to find a decent tree up here...

I recently did a "trunkwalk" on a 4' DBH douglas fir that had fallen across a small river in the recent windstorms. I attached my 150 climbing line to a nearby vertical tree, and used my minigrapple to snag a stout limb across the river, then i walked across, keeping the ropes taut. a very heady experience.......wished i had cork boots for grip.... LOTS of trees like that here, maybe i can develop a NEW tree"climbing" or "treewalking" offshoot....

Yep, I have southern tree envy too. I think even in the south when you get into the woods you won't get branches starting on hardwoods until pretty high up. Unless you find a tree that was standing in a field a hundred years ago and the woods have grown up around it then you'll see some of the big limbs down lower. It's park trees and trees out in the open that have the most big fat horizontals.

Everyone else in the country is jealous of the big Douglas firs and the huge variety of conifer species you have in the PNW. The trees are always better somewhere else

If you can get a hold of the beautifully illustrated, 'Forest Giants of the Pacific Northwest' by Robert Van Pelt you'll see why tree climbers start drooling at the thought of visiting the northwest rain forest.
-moss

Lots of limb walking in teh trees here in Atlanta. Many of the yard trees are almost open spreaders as with pasture trees. Our heights range from 75-100 feet. We do not have the tall trees you have. It's funny how climbers from the tall tree regions don't have well developed limb walking skills while us short tree climbers don't have tall tree climbing skills as those who live amoung them. Be happy to be amoung trees, whatever the shape or height. Trees do good things to humans while aloft.

^ how very true!!! a tree is a tree is tree, no matter where it be!

I'm really enjoying "trunkwalking", across rivers or creeks, brightens up the days that i cant find good trees to climb

Now this is a place to learn to limbwalk.

Legend has it Robin Hood made merry up this belter of a tree.

I know i've had my fair share of air time up old Fangorn.

In England we have two naturally occuring Oaks. The Penduculate and Sessile. This is a good example of the former. Sessile tend to reach for the sky more.