climbing schools/camps etc?

second-gen_monkey

are there any good ones in the south west usa?

i have searched but no luck.

i've had fleeting thoughts of maybe putting one together in about three years but i have no clue what would be required permit and license wise and only know three or four guys with the experience and patience to teach anyone much less a camp.

it may be a pipe dream but maybe we can use our collective brain power to figure this out. i know it may take more than three years to even start but i dream of one day having a school/camp to teach the future arborists of america (and one day the world) how to do everything, not just swing a chainsaw, in an enviroment productive to their learning needs. all the pamphletes and cd-roms in the world the pushes can't teach what two to four months of hands-on, dedicated training can do to give a new climber an enthusiastic start or an old-timer a fun brush up and industry update.

does anyone else think this is a good idea or am i just crazy?

Drouin Tree Service

Its a really good idea,Im thinking of putting a skill set/training package together and do it from my own property.

One thing that really annoys me is there is no "real world"training to get people trained to a basic level IMHO.

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second-gen_monkey

that's my concern too. i was lucky enough to have a father with 20+ years experience but my only other option would have been to wander into a tree care company and start from scratch with someone who i don't know anything about.
if it wasn't for my dad i would have proably given up.

i'm certain taht there are plenty of people like myself who have tried to get into the field only to be scared away by the lack of formal training.
when i started my father gave me a bunch of cd-roms and books but they only took me so far and i misinterperated alot of what they said.
if this can be curtailed by experienced, dedicated profesionals i feel we would see less hat racks and weakened trees as well as an improvement in the general populations understanding of what we do.