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Originally Posted by JayD  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!   |
another option is to settle for a less than "holy grail" TIP, but one quite a ways up there in a crotch that doesn't need inspection that you can reach. work a limb or two on your way up and you'll have that part done. meanwhile you find a good TIP and work the rest of the tree.
there is a technique that a guy showed me a number of years ago of how to use a rope and a carabiner to redirect a throwline to the desired location, but i can't quite remember the technique. maybe someone here will remind us. keep up the inquisitive impulses and you'll be a great climber in a year or two.
good luck,
kevin
