Hi Jim,
One of the biggest and often overlooked bonuses of climbing branch to branch is you get to inspect at close quarters the integrity of your tie in, and look for obvious defects in the tree,Yes it might be harder to do but IMO much safer.
At least when you finnaly reach your desired TIP to work the tree, You will feel much safer when your out on a limb and the only thing holding you inplace is your anchor points.
Jim keep practicing good technique it will all fall into to place and you wont believe how it use to give you a hard time in the past. Pitch that rope!
